The subject of the research in the article is the system of solid municipal waste management, the choice of a method of sorting and recycling waste to obtain finished products based on the material balance method. For the analysis of production systems, the material balance method is proposed, which allows you to estimate the quantity (mass) waste involved in sorting, processing and receiving finished products and the amount of finished products received at each of the above stages of the waste management system. One of such indicators may be the coefficient of effective waste processing Ƞ (KEPO) in the production of new consumer goods (similar to the coefficient of efficiency), taking into account the economic cycle for the processing of MSW, including the collection, sorting, recycling of waste and the production of new goods in one economic cycle, and the coefficient of waste generation µ (KOO) in the same business cycle, determined by the method of material balance.

Keywords: municipal waste, sorting, recycling, products, material balance, coefficient of effective waste recycling, coefficient of waste generation