commercial institutional and cd waste may or may not be the responsibility of the municipality in practice in lowerincome countries where environmental legislation may be weaker these tend to fall under municipal responsibility they can either manage the waste themselves or contract a private sector waste management company or they may sometimes be offered to pay to optin to the city s municipal waste management service and generally are expected to pay a higher price for the service so as to not further burden the municipality that delivers the senice and instead to improve costrecovery by crosssubsidizing the service