ABSTRACT
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is a descriptive phrase frequently to be heard being bandied about in discussions and, while universally understood in broad terms, like a number of expressions within the waste industry, the precise definition tends to change dependent on the geographic origin of the speaker. An alternative method for waste characterisation, which utilizes an altogether different approach, based on material flow, was pioneered in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the United States Public Health Service and subsequently developed by its successor. The recycling of biowaste represents the most productive means by which to mitigate the contribution of this particular material to the wider waste management question. Poor availability of facilities to act as examples of best practice may also be a limiting factor in the advancement of biowaste treatment. A biowaste plant is limited only by the continued desire to keep it running; it has no void space to use up.
