Solid waste facilities include:

• Transfer Stations (where residential trash and municipal solid waste are taken before final disposal). There are two such facilities in Medina County – one in Wadsworth, and at the Medina County Solid Waste District’s Central Processing Facility on Lake Road in Westfield Township.
• Compost Facilities (where primarily yard, agricultural, and animal wastes are processed through composting) include four classes recognized by the Ohio EPA: Class I (accepts mixed solid waste, food waste, yard waste); Class II (accepts yard waste, animal wastes, and other wastes by approval); Class III (accepts yard waste and/or animal wastes); and Class IV (accepts only yard waste). There are currently 7 Compost Facilities in Medina County - a Class I facility (the only one in Ohio); a Class III facility; and 5 Class IV facilities. We do not have any Class II facilities.
• Construction & Demolition Disposal (C&DD) Facilities (where building materials – wood, drywall, concrete, etc., - from construction and demolition activities are taken for disposal by landfilling). There are presently no C&DD facilities in Medina County.

Infectious Waste facilities include:

• Infectious Waste Treatment Facilities (where infectious wastes are treated by chemical means, autoclaving, or incineration). The only facility of this type in Medina County is an infectious waste incinerator at Medina General Hospital.
• Generators of Infectious Waste Facilities (where infectious wastes are generally stored on-site and transported to a treatment facility by Ohio EPA-registered infectious waste transporters. These facilities are sub-divided into two groups – Large Generators (those generating more than 50 pounds in a month); and Small Generators (those generating less than 50 pounds in a month). Such facilities include hospitals, doctor and dentist offices, tattoo & body piercing establishments, or other places that generate infectious waste as defined in the Ohio EPA regulations. There are 28 of these facilities registered by the Ohio EPA in Medina County.

Inspections of Solid & Infectious Waste Facilities are conducted to assure compliance with the applicable Ohio EPA regulations for these facilities, and according to the inspection frequencies established by the Ohio EPA: Quarterly for Transfer Stations, Class I Compost Facilities, and Infectious Waste Treatment Facilities; and annually for Class III and IV Compost Facilities and Infectious Waste Generators.