Solid Waste Management Facility
Facility Fact Sheet
City of Phoenix
27th Avenue Solid Waste Management Facility
Fact Sheet
It is a multi-functional facility that accommodates solid waste transfer, commercial recyclables/materials sorting, self-haul materials sorting, vegetation mulching, and educational programs for the public.
The main building is two and one-half times the size of a football field, located on 62 acres adjacent to the existing 27th Avenue Landfill, handles a peak volume of 4,500 tons per day.
Two steel trusses, 210' and 231' long support the roof. They are the largest building trusses ever used in a building in the state.
The City's Percent for Arts Program has been utilized to provide a unique collaboration of design between an artist team, design engineers, and City staff.
The capacity of the solid waste transfer operation is 3,500 tons per day.
The capacity of the commercial recyclables sorting operation is 400 tons per day.
The educational area includes a multi-purpose room and an elevated walkway and amphitheater which will permit visitors to safely watch both waste transfer and recycling operations.
Funding source: 1984 Bonds and Refuse Revenue Funds.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 18, 1991.
The Grand Opening Ceremony coincided with Earth Day, April 22, 1993.
Closure of the 27th Avenue Landfill is expected to occur in April 1993.
The construction cost for the facility was $14.7 million.
The facility includes a state of the art computerized scale system.
The long haul trailers are 50 feet long, made of lightweight aluminum, and have a capacity of 120 cubic yards (approximately three garbage truck loads).
The recycling/sorting line will be manned by prison inmates through a contract with the Arizona Department of Corrections.
The facility's commercial sorting line equipment was manufactured in Europe and is the first system of its design to be used in the United States.
