What is a Tipping Floor?
Most solid waste facilities (transfer stations, material recovery facilities, recycling plants and waste-to-energy plants) have a “tipping floor.” The tipping floor is an area of the facilities’ floor where trucks drive in, “tip” solid waste onto the floor and drive out. The solid waste is then sorted and moved by machinery to transfer ports. In a waste-to-energy facility, the sorted waste is moved to a transfer port that feeds into the energy conversion section of the plant. Most tipping floors are constructed with concrete and are either slab on grade or elevated slab. Tipping floors take a lot of abuse from the solid waste being dropped onto the floor and then moved around the floor by heavy machinery. Additionally, chemicals and other substances in the solid waste seep into the concrete and cause corrosion, delamination and spalling. Because of the abuse that tipping floors take, many solid waste facilities use an iron aggregate topping that is more abrasion & chemical resistant th
