Review of Environmental and Health Effects of Waste Management: Municipal Solid Waste and Similar Wastes

The report examines the waste management options for treating municipal solid and similar waste. It focuses, as Defra requested, on the principal types of facilities that are currently used for dealing with such waste in the UK and in Europe and on what the currently available scientific evidence can tell us about their environmental and health effects.

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