Data from: Predicting the composition of solid waste at the county scale

This repository contains compiled data from published waste
characterization studies with intent for training waste composition
prediction models. The data is first used in a study published in the
journal Waste Management titled "Predicting the composition of solid
waste at the county scale". The data available is contained in
reports that we refer to as waste characterization studies; these reports
are often titled similarly. The data is pulled from these reports, where
each data point is an estimated percentage breakdown of the waste stream
into various material categories for a particular geographic area and
year. Some reports provide multiple data points, such as data for each
county within a state. The project team manually extracted this data from
the publicly available report PDFs. Since different reports often use
unique sets of material categories, the team translated the data into a
standardized characterization. This process is detailed in the
aforementioned paper.