Abstract: As the core hub of the waste collection and transportation network, the management efficiency of domestic waste transfer stations directly determines the economic costs, environmental performance and social acceptance of the urban domestic waste management system. To systematically summarize the full-process management experience of municipal solid waste transfer stations from planning and design to decommissioning and disposal, the life cycle management concept was introduced. Taking a large municipal solid waste transfer station in Jiangsu province as the research object, a systematic analysis was conducted on the full life cycle of the transfer station, and typical problems arising throughout the transfer station’s full life cycle were extracted and summarized. The results have been showed that planning and design is the researching stage for overall layout and process route, construction serves as a vital stage to turn design plans into physical projects, operation management is the core phase to ensure safe, environmentally-friendly and stable operation of facilities, while decommissioning and disposal represents the final stage for realizing the recycling and reuse of site resources. The countermeasures and suggestions proposed in this study are universally applicable, and can provide practical references for the life cycle management of similar urban domestic waste transfer stations.

Key words: large-scale domestic waste transfer station, life cycle management, typical problems, countermeasures and suggestions