§ 9-48. Definitions.  


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  • For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

    Generator: Any business or commercial establishment whose act or process produces solid waste as defined herein, including the landlord or tenant association for any such establishment if the landlord or tenant association manages solid waste for its tenants or members, respectively, which produce solid waste.

    Business or commercial establishment: Any person, association, partnership, or corporation engaged in manufacturing or in any business, profession, or occupation.

    Manage: To collect, store, treat, transport, and dispose of solid waste as defined herein.

    Reused: Once having been a waste and being:

    (1)

    Employed as an ingredient (including use as an intermediate) in a process to make a product, excepting those materials possessing distinct components that are recoverable as separate end products; or

    (2)

    Employed in a particular function or application as an effective substitute for a commercial product or natural resource.

    Recycling: The process of separating a given waste material from the waste stream and processing it so that it is used again as a raw material for a product, which may or may not be similar to the original product.

    Solid waste: Any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, resulting from industrial, commercial, residential, mining, or agricultural operations, or community activities but does not include:

    (1)

    Solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage;

    (2)

    Solid or dissolved material in irrigation return flows or in industrial discharges which are sources subject to a permit from the state water control board; or

    (3)

    Source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

    Source reduction: Any action that reduces or eliminates the generation of waste at the source, usually within a process. Source reduction measures include among others, process modifications, feedstock substitutions, improvements in feedstock purity, improvements in housekeeping and management practices, increases in the efficiency of machinery, and recycling within a process.

    (Ord. of 11-19-91)

(Ord. of 11-19-91)