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4. A community is proposing to achieve a 50 percent rate of separation by weight of wastes made up of the following items: mixed paper, 40%; cardboard, 8%; plastics,8%; yard

waste, 24%; glass, 12%; and tin cans, 8%. Determine the as collected percentage distribution for the residual waste components, assuming the typical distribution of waste components given in column 4 of Table 3-7 is representative of the wastes that are now generated.

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