Tullytown Landfill (a.k.a. Tullytown Resource Recovery Facility)

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A Waste Management Inc. landfill, which operated from 1988 until the state ordered it closed in May 2017. It's one of four landfills and a trash incinerator all developed by Waste Management in Lower Bucks County. It accepted household and commercial trash, incinerator ash, treated medical waste, industrial waste, asbestos, and sewage sludge. The controversial landfill was the subject of many odor complaints by local residents in Tullytown Borough and in nearby Florence Township, New Jersey.

The official name "Tullytown Resource Recovery Facility" comes from early plans for this to be a trash incinerator. Many trash incinerators are named as if they primarily recover resources, rather than destroy them, so the "resource recovery" term that originally applied to recycling facilities has been used for trash incinerators, and the name was kept for this facility once it was developed as a landfill.

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