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Published in final edited form as: Waste Manag. 2019 Feb 18;87:398–406. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.02.031

Table 1.

Standard and challenge waste recipe by weight percent. standard and plastic waste recipes from ARL (Margolin et al., 2015).

Waste category	Standard	Challenge recipe
	Recipe (SW)	Plastic (HP)	FSR	KMC^c
Cardboard	15	10	12	16
Mixed paper	10	6.0	7.7	18
Food waste	32	21	43	44
Plastic	15^a	44^a	19^a	12
Wood	14	9.0	11	0.09
Metals	6.0^b	4.0^b	2.5^b	2.9
Glass	1.0	1.0	0.8	3.7
Rubber and neoprene	1.0	1.0	0.8	1.2
Textile	3.0	2.0	2.3	0.25
Miscellaneous waste/other	3.0	2.0	2.3	1.8
Total	100	100	100	100

^a

Plastic breakdown in Table 2.

^b

60% iron, 36% aluminum, and 4% other metals.

^c

20-bag average composition sampled from dumpster.