NOVELTY - Processing mixed solid waste involves providing a mixed waste stream comprising wet organic waste (at least 10 wt.%) and dry organic waste (at least 10 wt.%) that is comingled; separating the wet organic waste using mechanical separators to produce an intermediate wet and dry organic streams; converting a portion of intermediate wet stream to renewable products using a first conversion technique; and converting intermediate dry stream to renewable products using at least a second conversion technique, where the second technique is different than the first technique.    USE - For processing mixed solid waste e.g. wet organics, green waste, food waste, grit, asphalt, concrete, textiles, wood and rubber (claimed), particularly for recycling and conversion of solid waste derived from e.g. commercial, industrial, or residential refuse.    ADVANTAGE - The throughput of the mechanical sorter has a throughput of at least 2 metric tons per hour per single line of mixed solid waste. The method handles large volumes of highly variable mixed waste materials; efficiently extracts recyclables from unsorted mixed waste (e.g. black bin municipal solid waste (MSW)), home-sorted recyclable streams where mis-compliance is high (e.g. blue bin MSW), and other types of MSW such as variable commercial solid waste streams from retail establishments, light manufacturing, warehouses, office buildings, and industrial waste streams; and recovers significantly larger percentages of different types of recyclable materials and organic materials for conversion into renewable fuels and energy from variable waste streams as compared to known systems. This ability is due in large part to the mechanical separation to divide out the wet organic materials from the dry organic materials and optionally the inorganic materials using mechanical sorters such as shredders, size separators, density separators, and/or dimensional sorters, which creates concentrated, homogenous intermediate waste material streams from which renewable energy and recyclables can be mechanically extracted. Unlike traditional refuse derived fuel plants, the present methods fractionate and spread the waste material sufficiently to prepare the intermediate streams for efficient conversion.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Processing mixed solid waste involves: providing a mixed waste stream comprising wet organic waste (at least 10 wt.%) and dry organic waste (at least 10 wt.%) that is comingled; separating the wet organic waste from the dry organic waste using at least one mechanical separator to produce an intermediate wet organic stream and an intermediate dry organic stream; converting at least a portion of the intermediate wet organic stream to renewable products using at least a first conversion technique; and converting the intermediate dry organic stream to renewable products using at least a second conversion technique, where the second conversion technique is different than the first conversion technique.