Mixed waste

Or Mixed Municipal Waste (MMW), makes up the majority of municipal waste, even though it is defined as the residue after sorting all the above types of waste. The network of containers for its collection is the most widespread. These are mainly plastic waste bins and containers of various volumes, mainly black in colour. It is collected in galvanised metal bins and containers in some places. The name itself suggests that there may be many things in this waste. When we sort waste thoroughly, we find that it includes porcelain and ceramics, for example. It includes also waste not subject to take-back consisting of multiple materials that cannot be easily separated from each other and waste heavily contaminated with other substances of a non-hazardous nature.

In connection with this waste, we can also come across the term residual waste, which better expresses that only waste that cannot be sorted elsewhere belongs to these containers.