### Question
What is the definition of municipal waste?


### Answer
The definition of **municipal waste** is as follows in *42 U.S.C. § 7429*:

> refuse (and refuse-derived fuel) collected from the general public and from residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial sources consisting of paper, wood, yard wastes, food wastes, plastics, leather, rubber, and other combustible materials and non-combustible materials such as metal, glass and rock, provided that: (A) the term does not include industrial process wastes or medical wastes that are segregated from such other wastes

#### Citation:
  - *42 U.S.C. § 7429*
  - Heading: **SUBCHAPTER I-PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES > Subchapter Referred to in Other Sections > Amendments**

