List of Waste Types

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Main article: Waste

Waste comes in many different forms:

• Agricultural waste
• Animal by-products
• Biodegradable waste
• Biomedical waste
• Bulky waste
• Business waste
• Chemical waste
• Clinical waste
• Coffee wastewater
• Commercial waste
• Composite waste
• Construction and demolition waste (C&D waste)
• Consumable waste
• Controlled waste
• Demolition waste
• Dog waste
• Domestic waste
• Electronic waste (e-waste)
• Food waste
• Gaseous wastes
• Green waste
• Grey water
• Hazardous waste
• Heat waste

• Household waste
  • Household hazardous waste

• Human waste
  • Sewage sludge

• Industrial waste
  • Slag
  • Fly ash
  • Sludge
• Inert waste
• Inorganic waste
• Kitchen waste
• Litter
• Liquid waste
• Marine debris
• Medical waste
• Metabolic waste
• Mineral waste
• Mixed waste
• Municipal solid waste
• Nuclear waste (see Radioactive waste)
• Organic waste
• Packaging waste
• Post-consumer waste

• Radioactive waste
  • Low level waste
  • High level waste
  • Mixed waste (radioactive/hazardous)
  • Spent nuclear fuel

• Recyclable waste
• Residual waste
• Retail hazardous waste
• Sewage
• Sharps waste
• Ship disposal
• Slaughterhouse waste

• Special waste - see hazardous waste
• Toxic waste
• Uncontrolled waste
• Waste heat
• Wastewater
• Winery wastewater