Table 4.
Average (% by weight) composition of MSW in Indian metro cities. Source: Sharholy et al. [16].
| percentage (%) by weight | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compostable | inert | paper | plastic | glass | metals | textile | leather |
| 41 | 40 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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