Solid waste design capacity

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-026071",
  "term": "Solid waste design capacity",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Solid Waste Design Capacity",
  "definition": "1. Maximum amount of solid waste a landfill can accept, as indicated in terms of volume or mass in the most recent permit issued by the State, local, or Tribal agency responsible for regulating the landfill, plus any in-place waste not accounted for in the most recent permit. If the owner or operator chooses to convert the design capacity from volume to mass or from mass to volume to demonstrate its design capacity is less than 2.5 million megagrams or 2.5 million cubic meters, the calculation must include a site specific density, which must be recalculated annually.\n\n2. Maximum amount of solid waste a landfill can accept. For the purposes of this subpart, for landfills that have a permit, the design capacity can be determined in terms of volume or mass in the most recent permit issued by the state, local, or Tribal agency responsible for regulating the landfill, plus any in-place waste not accounted for in the most recent permit. If the owner or operator chooses to convert the design capacity from volume to mass to determine its design capacity, the calculation must include a site-specific density. If the design capacity is within 10 percent of the applicability threshold in § 98.460(a) and there is a change in the production process that can reasonably be expected to change the site-specific waste density, the site-specific waste density must be redetermined and the design capacity must be recalculated based on the new waste density.\n\n3. The weight of solid waste of a specified gross calorific value that a thermal processing facility is designed to process in 24 hours of continuous operation; usually expressed in tons per day.",
  "subject": "Regulatory activities",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 60.751 (CFR 2013); 40 CFR 62.14351 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 98.468 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 240.101 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/solid-waste-design-capacity/"
}