urban waste
Metropolitan trash output
Urban waste is garbage, sewage, and other discarded material generated by cities and their populations.
The term appears in municipal planning, environmental policy, and discussions of sanitation infrastructure: The city struggled to manage its urban waste.
It encompasses household trash, industrial byproducts, and wastewater—everything a dense human settlement produces and must dispose of.
- construction debrisWaste from building work
- recyclingReprocessing used materials
- batteriesPortable energy storage units
- landfillWaste burial ground
- leachateLiquid filtered through waste
composting · paper · textiles · sewage · heavy metals · glass · plastics · plastic bag · illegal dumping · fly tipping · cardboard · public awareness campaigns · packaging materials · incineration · trash · trash heap · rot · garbage
- waste managementtrash, garbage, rubbish, refuse, litter
- found artfound art, found objects, assemblage, junk art, readymade
urban wastefarm waste
urban wasteorganic matter
Material from living sources
fertile soil · natural fertilizer · humus · forest litter · leaf mold