### Question
How is the term municipal waste defined?


### Answer
The term **municipal waste** is defined in *42 U.S.C. § 7429* as the following:

> 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: **CHAPTER 85-AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL > SUBCHAPTER I-PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES > Part A-Air Quality and Emission Limitations**

