In Beijing (i.e.,Beijing City and the suburbs surrounding it) the daily generated MSW now exceeds 16,000 t, but the daily design capacity of the 17 existing waste treatment and disposal facilities, mainly landfills, is only 10,350 t. Therefore, many of the facilities are overloaded, resulting in the expected closure of nine of the landfill sites in the next few years, which is way ahead of their supposed service lives.