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material, a material must meet the requirements of N.C.G.S. ~ 130- <br />309.05(c). <br />28. Recyclable construction and demolition material. clean wood waste and <br />metals (except closed drums and tanks) resulting generally from <br />construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition operations on pavement, <br />buildings, or other structures. <br />29. Recyclable material. The term "recyclable material" includes, but is not <br />limited, to, recyclable construction and demolition materials, aluminum, <br />drink boxes, corrugated cardboard and Kraft paper, glass bottles and jars, <br />magazines, ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, motor oil, newspaper, <br />office paper, scrap paper, plastic bottles including milk jugs, soda <br />bottles, steel and tin cans, telephone directories, yard waste, cooking <br />grease, clean wood waste, rubble, food waste when exclusively source- <br />separated for composting, and other materials as may be specified by the <br />Board of County Commissioners. <br />30. Recycling. The process by which solid waste or recovered materials are <br />collected, separated, or processed, and reused or returned to use in the <br />form of raw materials or products. <br />31. Regulated recyclable material. The recyclable material as set forth in <br />Paragraph 1 of SECTION III of this Ordinance. <br />32. Regulated recyclable material collector. any person who collects regulated <br />recyclable waste. <br />33. Sludge. any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, <br />commercial, institutional or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water <br />supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or any other <br />waste having similar characteristics and effects. <br />34. Solid waste. construction and demolition waste; regulated recyclable <br />material; hazardous or nonhazardous garbage; refuse or sludge from a waste <br />treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control <br />facility; domestic sewage and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in <br />sanitary sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems; and any other <br />material that is either discarded or is being accumulated, stored, or <br />treated prior to being discarded, or has served its original intended use <br />and is generally discarded, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained <br />gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial, and <br />agricultural operations, and from community activities. The term does not <br />include: <br />a. Fecal waste from fowls and animals other than humans. <br />b. Solid or dissolved material in: <br />1) Domestic sewage and sludges generated by treatment thereof in <br />sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems which are <br />designed to discharge effluents to the surface waters. <br />2) Irrigation return flows. <br />3) Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by <br />treatment which are point sources subject to permits granted under <br />13 <br />