List of waste types
Waste comes in many different forms and may be categorized in a variety of ways. The types listed here are not necessarily exclusive and there may be considerable overlap so that one waste entity may fall into one to many types.
- Agricultural waste
- Animal by-products
- Biodegradable waste
- Biomedical waste
- Bulky waste
- Business waste
- Chemical waste
- Clinical waste
- Coffee wastewater
- Commercial waste
- Composite waste
- Construction and demolition waste
- Controlled waste
- Demolition waste
- Dog waste
- Domestic waste
- Electronic waste
- Food waste
- Green waste
- Grey water
- Hazardous waste
- Household waste
- * Household hazardous waste
- Human waste
- * Sewage sludge
- Industrial waste
- * Slag
- * Fly ash
- * Sludge
- Inert waste
- Inorganic waste
- Kitchen waste
- Litter
- Marine debris
- Medical waste
- Metabolic waste. See also Feces.
- Mineral waste. See also Inorganic waste.
- Mixed waste
- Municipal solid waste
- Nuclear waste
- Organic waste
- Packaging waste
- Post-consumer waste
- Radioactive waste
- * Low-level waste
- * High-level waste
- * Mixed waste
- * Spent nuclear fuel
- Recyclable waste
- Residual waste
- Retail hazardous waste
- Sewage
- Sharps waste
- Ship disposal
- Slaughterhouse waste
- Special waste