The determination of the type of waste is difficult, because the classification of waste is highly variable (Buenrostro et al. 2001); it depends on the criteria chosen by the authors (Castelli et al. 2012).
A new harmonized EU regulation for the classification of waste came into effect on 1st June 2015, in which the criteria and assessment methods for the classification of hazardous waste are harmonized with other internationally agreed-upon systems for hazard classification of chemicals (CLP).
The landfills data, for example, are subject to errors in location, operating dates and classification of waste types.
Effect-based tools support also the ecotoxicological characterisation and classification of hazardous wastes in the context of the Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC).
In the global South countless informal and organized solid waste collectors are engaged in resource recovery, classification of discarded waste, and redirection of recyclables towards the recycling sector.
Senator Jeff Bingaman, Democrat of New Mexico, the ranking minority member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said that "if the D.O.E. has the authority to change the classification of the waste at will, that pretty much undercuts any Congressional control of the issue".
An overview of radwaste management processes with respect to the classification of the waste type is given.
In order to automate this process, robotic platforms can be deployed that utilise robust and fast vision systems for visual classification of nuclear waste material.
In this paper, classifications of solid wastes have been proposed according to its origin into three types: municipal solid waste (MSW), industrial solid waste (ISW), and healthcare solid waste (HW).
