Commercial Materials Recycling Facility

Commercial paper and cardboard is sorted and baled for market at this facility.  Information on this facility is available here.

Compost Facility

Vegetative mulch is composted with wastewater residuals from several Palm Beach County utilities to produce compost that is suitable for agricultural and horticultural uses.  Click here for more information.

Ferrous Processing Facility

Ferrous metal recovered at the Resource Recovery Facility, the Materials Recycling Facility, and the Landfill is prepared for market at the Ferrous Processing Facility.  Click here for more information.

Landfill Operations

The SWA operates both a Class 1 and a Class 3 landfill.  With a total of over 50  million yards of airspace, the landfill is expected to provide capacity through 2021.  Click here for more information.

Residential Materials Recycling Facility

Materials collected from curbside and multi-family housing units is delivered to the RMRF.  Here these materials are sorted, baled, and shipped to market.  Click here for more information.

Resource Recovery Facility

The NCRRF is a refuse-derived fuel waste-to-energy facility.  It processes over 850,000 tons per year of solid waste into refuse-derived fuel.  This fuel is burned to produce electricity that is sold to Florida Power and Light.  Click here for more information.

Transfer Stations

The SWA operates five transfer stations in Palm Beach County.  These transfer stations accept and haul nearly 1.4 million tons of solid waste and recyclables per year.  Click here for more information.

Woody Waste Recycling Facility

The SWA receives more than 250,000 tons of yard waste per year, approximately 100,000 tons of which is processed at this facility.  Approximately half of the mulch produced is delivered to the compost facility.  Click here for more information.