 Developers of new waste technologies must take into account what exactly waste streams consist of in order to fully treat the waste.The biodegradable element of the waste stream is vitally important in the use of systems such as composting or anaerobic digestion.Waste characterization is a manual process carried beside waste management plants in a process that consists of taking 1 tone from a garbage truck, dividing the sample into 4 parts, mixing them, dividing again into 4 parts and take one of them (250kg) to analyze them manually.