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• The Municipal Solid Waste Factbook - Abstract: The Municipal Solid Waste Factbook is an electronic reference manual containing over 250 screens of information about household waste management practices. It contains information about the federal MSW program as well as profiles of individual state programs, and comparisons of practices in major developed nations. Tables, charts and maps display useful facts and figures about source reduction, recycling, land disposal and combustion of MSW. Other tables contain information about the generation rates and composition of waste. There are also names, addresses and phone numbers for contacts in the MSW field. Other information includes: the complete text of EPA's regulations for MSW landfills, complete inventories of incinerators (150), composting facilities (30), and large landfills (350), lists of MSW periodicals, publications available from the National Technical Information Service, and names and addresses of trade and environmental associations. (HTML Version and Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95 and NT executable version available at this site.)