Municipal Waste Operation- Abandoned Landfill Facilities

A Municipal Waste Operation is a DEP primary facility type related to the Waste Management Municipal Waste Program. The sub-facility types related to Municipal Waste Operations that are included are: Composting: Includes facilities that use land for processing municipal waste by composting. Composting is a process that biologically decomposes organic waste under controlled anaerobic or aerobic conditions to yield a humus-like product. Land Application: Includes facilities that uses agricultural utilization or land reclamation of waste. Sewage sludge is land-applied for its nutrient value or as a soil conditioner. Landfill - Abandoned: The Abandoned Landfill Inventory Project collects geospatial and descriptive data for closed and abandoned landfills throughout the state of Pennsylvania. Locations for sites were determined from historic records such as microfiche, index card, topographic map, and staff personal files, and then compiled into site lists. Each of the six DEP regions is staffed with summer interns who physically locate the sites and collect the data for the project. The purpose of the Abandoned Landfill Inventory Project is to determine the location of abandoned and closed landfills in order to catalog potential environmental hazards. The data is intended for internal government and public consumption, in order to keep property sales, clean-up efforts, and land development well informed. For metadata on the ALI Project, see Abandoned Landfill Metadata. Landfill: A landfill is a facility that uses land for the disposal of municipal waste. Processing Facility: A processing facility is a transfer station, composting facility, resource recovery facility, or a facility that reduces the volume or bulk of municipal waste for offsite reuse. Resource Recovery: A resource recovery is a facility that provides for the extraction and utilization of materials or energy from municipal waste. The facility can be a mechanical extraction facility or a combustion facility. Transfer Station: A transfer station is a facility that receives and processes or temporarily stores municipal waste at a location other than the generation site. This sub-facility facilitates the transportation or transfer of municipal waste to a processing or disposal facility.市政垃圾运营是宾夕法尼亚州环境保护部（Department of Environmental Protection, DEP）认定的与垃圾管理市政垃圾项目相关的一级设施类型。本项目涵盖的市政垃圾运营相关子设施类型包括： 堆肥设施：指利用土地通过堆肥工艺处理市政垃圾的设施。堆肥是指在受控厌氧或好氧条件下，通过生物作用分解有机垃圾，最终生成类腐殖质产物的工艺过程。 土地施用处置：指对垃圾开展农业利用或土地修复的设施。污水污泥可施用于土地，以利用其养分价值或作为土壤改良剂。 废弃填埋场：废弃填埋场清查项目（Abandoned Landfill Inventory Project, ALI）负责收集宾夕法尼亚州境内所有已关闭及废弃填埋场的地理空间数据与描述性信息。项目组通过缩微胶片、索引卡片、地形图以及工作人员个人档案等历史记录确定场地位置，随后整理形成场地清单。宾夕法尼亚州环境保护部下辖的六个区域均配备暑期实习生，由其实地勘察场地并为该项目收集数据。本项目的目标是查明废弃及已关闭填埋场的位置，以便对潜在环境风险进行分类建档。所收集的数据仅供政府内部及公众使用，以便为房地产交易、垃圾清理作业以及土地开发活动提供信息参考。如需获取ALI项目的元数据，请参阅《废弃填埋场元数据》（Abandoned Landfill Metadata）。 填埋场：指利用土地处置市政垃圾的设施。 处理设施：指转运站、堆肥设施、资源回收设施，或用于缩减市政垃圾体积或总量以便异地再利用的设施。 资源回收利用设施：指可从市政垃圾中提取并利用材料或能源的设施，可分为机械提取设施或焚烧设施。 转运站：指在垃圾产生场地以外的地点接收、处理或临时储存市政垃圾的设施，该子设施用于将市政垃圾转运或移交至处理或处置设施。