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Picture 5.: Food waste
Textiles
The primary sources of textiles in MSW are clothing <strong>and</strong> household items such
as sheets <strong>and</strong> towels. However, textiles are also found in such items as tires,
furniture, <strong>and</strong> footwear.
Wood
The wood is found in durable <strong>good</strong>s such as furniture <strong>and</strong> cabinets for
electronic <strong>good</strong>s, <strong>and</strong> in the containers <strong>and</strong> packaging category in shipping
pallets <strong>and</strong> boxes.
4.3. Recycling
There are different kind of materials that could be recycled in also many
different ways according to the type <strong>and</strong> pollution ability of them. These
include many different types of paper such as (newspaper, cardboard, mixed
paper, etc.), glass (e.g. amber, green, <strong>and</strong>/or flint), cans (e.g.aluminum, ferrous,
bimetal), <strong>and</strong> plastics (e.g.PET, HDPE, PS, PVC, PP, LDPE, etc.), as well as
,many other items made of various materials biodegradable <strong>and</strong> not.
There are two types of systems used for the separate collection of the recyclable
materials including biowaste. The first one needs the participation of the public
body only throughout the separation process at source (household separation).
The second one needs the public participation not only at source separation
but also at transportation to the proper facilities for further treatment. These
sites may be bottle <strong>and</strong> paper banks situated at the local supermarket, civic
amenity sites for the disposal of many types of material or the local scrap
merchant. In other words there are the ‘bring’ <strong>and</strong> the ‘collect’ systems.
However, the participation of the public to such schemes can be low,
something that depends on many factors such as (the Country, the education
level, economy factors etc).
The ‘collect’ systems involve house-to-house curbside collection of designated
recyclable materials, source separated by the householder <strong>and</strong> placed in