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| 1551–onward || Paper {{w|packaging}} is introduced as a waste source.
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| 1835 || Electronic devices are introduced. Adding {{w|electronic waste}} as a waste source.
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| 1855–onward || {{w|Plastic}} is introduced as a waste source.
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| 1786 || {{w|Municipal solid waste}} || Service || A proper waste collection service is first instigated in the {{w|Cape Colony}}.<ref name="Solid Waste Management: Principles and Practice"/> || {{w|South Africa}}
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| 1835 || {{w|Electronic waste}} || Waste source emergence || American scientist {{w|Joseph Henry}} invents the {{w|relay}}, which is considered the first electronic device ever invented.<ref>{{cite web |title=10 First Electricity Milestones |url=https://www.smashinglists.com/10-first-electricity-milestones/ |website=smashinglists.com |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 1842 || General || Publication || British {{w|Social reformer}}, {{w|Edwin Chadwick}} publishes report ''The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population'' in which he argues for the importance of adequate waste removal and management facilities to improve the health and wellbeing of the city's population.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report...from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain |location=London |year=1842 |pages=369-372 |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html |last=Chadwick |first=Edwin}} via {{cite web |author=Laura Del Col |publisher=The Victorian Web |title=Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions |date=11 October 2002 |accessdate=11 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
