Municipal Waste Operations - 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.

市政废物运营（Municipal Waste Operation）是美国宾夕法尼亚州环境保护局（Department of Environmental Protection, DEP）划定的核心设施类型，隶属于废物管理市政废物项目体系。与之相关的纳入本类别的子设施类型如下：
堆肥（Composting）：指利用土地开展市政废物堆肥处理的场所。堆肥是指在受控厌氧或好氧环境下，通过生物作用分解有机废弃物，最终生成类腐殖质产物的工艺过程。
土地施用（Land Application）：指对废弃物进行农业利用或土地修复的设施。例如将污水污泥施用于土地，以利用其养分价值或作为土壤改良剂。
废弃填埋场（Landfill - Abandoned）：废弃填埋场清查项目（Abandoned Landfill Inventory Project, ALI）旨在收集宾夕法尼亚州全境已关闭及废弃填埋场的地理空间数据与描述性信息。项目场地点位首先通过微缩胶片、索引卡片、地形图及工作人员个人档案等历史档案资料初步筛选确定，随后汇总形成场地清单。宾夕法尼亚州下辖的六个DEP辖区均配备暑期实习生，负责实地踏勘场地并收集项目所需数据。本项目的核心目标为探明废弃及关闭填埋场的位置，以梳理排查潜在环境风险隐患。该数据仅供政府内部及公众查阅使用，为不动产交易、污染修复作业及土地开发活动提供精准信息支撑。如需获取ALI项目的元数据（metadata），请参阅《废弃填埋场元数据》（Abandoned Landfill Metadata）。
填埋场（Landfill）：指利用土地处置市政废物的设施。
处理设施（Processing Facility）：指转运站（Transfer Station）、堆肥（Composting）设施、资源回收（Resource Recovery）设施，或用于缩减市政废物体积与批量以实现场外再利用的各类场所。
资源回收（Resource Recovery）：指从市政废物中提取并利用材料或能源的设施，可分为机械提取设施与焚烧（combustion）设施两类。
转运站（Transfer Station）：指在废物产生地点以外的场所接收、处理或临时储存市政废物的设施，该子设施用于将市政废物转运或移交至处理或处置场所。