Topics covered include: the evolution of solid waste management; legislative trends and impacts; sources, types, composition and properties of municipal solid wastes; sources, types and properties of hazardous wastes found in municipal solid waste; engineering principles of solid waste generation, collection, separation, storage, transport, processing and transformation both at the source and off-site; disposal of solid wastes and residual matter (landfills, landfill leachates and landfill gases); separation, transformation and recycling of waste materials, including biological conversion technologies; closure, restoration and rehabilitation of landfills; and solid waste management and planning issues.