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Recycling
Programs that collect residential or commercial waste products to salvage reusable resources such as paper, plastics, glass or metals.
Refuse Collection
Programs that are responsible for the collection and/or hauling of refuse including the heterogeneous collection of household and business site waste products, garbage, garden trash, animal carcasses and other materials that are regarded as useless and thrown away.
The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.