Despite alarming predictions that global waste will nearly dou-ble to 2.2 billion tonnes by 2025 (Hoornweg & Bhada-Tata, 2012), and despite that almost all the cities in the world are struggling to meet their waste reduction targets (Ali, 2006), urban (i.e., munic-ipal) waste has neither received as much attention as water or energy in city planning (Zaman & Lehmann, 2011), nor has com-mensurate attention been given to the manifold infrastructures required to contend with this mounting problem.