Contents: Perspectives: Evolution of solid waste management -- Legislative trends and impacts -- Sources, types, and propeties of solid waste: Sources, types, and composition of manucipal solid wastes -- Physical, chemical, and biological properties of municipal solid waste -- Sources, types and properties of hazardous wastes found in municipal solid waste -- Engineering principles: Solid watse generation and collection ratess -- Solid watse generation and collection rates -- Watse handling and seperation, storage, and processing at the source -- Collection of solid waste -- Seperation and processing and transformation of solid waste -- Transfer and transport -- Disposal of wastes and residual matter -- Separation, transformation, and recycling of waste materials: Materials separation and processing technologies -- Thermal comversion technologies -- Biological and chemical conversion technologies -- Recycling of materials found in municipal solid waste -- Closure, restoration, and rehabilitation of landfills: Closure of landfills -- Remedial actions at inactive waste disposal sites -- Solid waste management and planning issues: Meeting federal-and state-mandated division goals -- Implementation of solid waste management options -- Planning, sitting, and permitting of waste management facilities -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: Metric conversion factors -- Appendix C: Physical properties of water -- Appendix D: Presentation and analysis of solid waste management data -- Appendix E: Typical cost data and cost-estimating procedures for equipment used in solid waste management systems -- Appendix F: Solubility of landfill gases dissolved in water -- Appendix G: Carbonate equilibrium -- Appendix H: Pysical properties of selected volatile and semivolatile organic compounds -- Appendix I: Landfill gas flow head loss computations.