Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures
On this page:
- National Key Facts and Figures in the United States
- U.S. State and Local Waste and Materials Characterization Reports
National Key Facts and Figures in the United States
Each year, EPA produces a report called Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Fact Sheet, formerly called Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: Facts and Figures. It includes information on municipal solid waste (MSW) generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery and landfilling. The 2015 fact sheet also includes information on Construction and Demolition Debris generation, which is outside of the scope of MSW.
U.S. State and Local Waste and Materials Characterization Reports
EPA maintains a list of state and local waste characterization studies; reports are not available for all states. You can search for your state in the table below.
For additions, changes or updates, please send new reports to ORCRMeasurement@epa.gov. Most reports exit EPA’s website.The following links exit the site Exit
- Alabama
- Alaska
- No Report Available
- Arizona
- No Report Available
- Arkansas
- California
- Cal Recycle Waste Characterization Studies Listing
- Cal Recycle Data Central (Numerous Characterization Reports and Data)
- California: Alameda County Waste Characterization Study (2008) (PDF) (571 pg, 2.58 MB, About PDF)
- California: Palo Alto Waste Composition Study (2006) (PDF)(94 pp, 365 K, About PDF)
- California: San Francisco Waste Characterization Study (2006) (PDF)(1 pg, 7 K, About PDF)
- Colorado
- Colorado: Boulder County Waste Composition Study (2010) (PDF) (57 pp, 1.66 MB, About PDF)
- Colorado: Larimer County Two-season Waste Composition Study (2007) (PDF)(48 pp, 1.27 MB, About PDF)
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- No Report Available
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- No Report Available
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Indiana's new waste characterization study (2012) (PDF)(165 pp, 5.78 MB, About PDF)
- Iowa
- Iowa: Statewide Waste Characterization (1998) (PDF)(150 pp, 6.28 MB, About PDF)
- Iowa: Statewide Waste Characterization (2006) (PDF)(170 pp, 1.74 MB, About PDF)
- Iowa: Statewide Waste Characterization Study (2011) (PDF)(135 pp, 1.31 MB, About PDF)
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- No Report Available
- Louisiana
- No Report Available
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- No Report Available
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Minnesota: City of Red Wing Solid Waste Composition Study: Solid Waste Boiler Facility (2009) (PDF) (61 pp, 5.32 Mb, About PDF)
- Minnesota: Construction, Demolition, and Industrial Waste Study (2007) (PDF)(159 pp, 1.12 Mb, About PDF)
- Minnesota: Perham Resource Recovery Facility: Solid Waste Composition Study (2012) (PDF) (62 pp, 4.5 Mv, About PDF)
- Minnesota: Solid Waste Composition Study: Covanta Hennepin Energy Resource Company (2012) (PDF) (27 pp, 685 Kb Mb, About PDF)
- Minnesota Statewide Waste Characterization Study (2013) (PDF) (59 pp, 1.66 Mb, About PDF)
- Broader Information on the Minnesota MSW Composition Study
- Mississippi
- No Report Available
- Missouri
- Missouri: Waste Composition Study (2008) (PDF)(112 pp, 2.33 MB, About PDF)
- Montana
- No Report Available
- Nebraska
- Nebraska: State Waste Characterization Study (2009) (PDF)(2175 pp, 6.41 MB, About PDF)
- Nevada
- No Report Available
- New Hampshire
- No Report Available
- New Jersey
- No Report Available
- New Mexico
- No Report Available
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- No Report Available
- Ohio
- No Report Available
- Oklahoma
- No Report Available
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- No Report Available
- Rhode Island
- No Report Available
- South Carolina
- No Report Available
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- No Report Available
- Utah
- No Report Available
- Vermont
- Vermont: Waste Composition Study (2013) (PDF)(44 pp, 1.47 MB, About PDF)
- Virginia
- No Report Available
- Washington
- Washington: Statewide Waste Characterization Study (2015-2016) (PDF)(157 pp, 2.3 MB About PDF)
- Washington: Statewide Waste Characterization Study (2010) (PDF)(135 pp, 2.37 MB About PDF)
- Washington: Thurston County Waste Composition Study (2009) (PDF)(104 pp, 729 K About PDF)
- Washington: Seattle Public Utilities Commission Waste Composition Reports
- Washington: Seattle Public Utilities Residential Waste Stream Composition Study (2010) (PDF)(112 pp, 972 K About PDF)
- King County Monitoring Program, 2007 Waste Characterization Study, June 2008 (PDF)(44 pp, 407 K About PDF)
- West Virginia
- No Report Available
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- No Report Available
- International Reports
- Canada - Metro Vancouver 2015 Waste Composition Monitoring Program (PDF)(71 pp, 8.2 MB About PDF)