Residential waste

Residential Waste
Waste generated in single and multi-family homes, including newspapers, clothing, disposable tableware, food packaging, cans, bottles, food scraps, and yard trimmings other than those that are diverted to backyard composting.

Residential Waste: materials generated in single and multiple-family homes.
Residue: materials remaining after processing, incineration, composting, or recycling have been completed; normally disposed of in landfills.

Waste Stream The total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions, and manufacturing plants that is recycled, burned, or disposed of in landfills, or segments thereof such as the 'residential waste stream' or the 'recyclable waste ...

In San Francisco, for example, animal feces accounts for nearly 4 percent of the city's residential waste"almost as much as disposable diapers, another landfill nightmare.

See also: Water, Table, Waste, Recycle, Recycling