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<br /> cardboard and Kraft paper, glass bottles and jars, magazines, ferrous and nonferrous scrap
<br /> metals, motor oil, newspaper, office paper, scrap paper, plastic bottles including milk jugs,
<br /> soda bottles, steel and tin cans, telephone directories,yard waste, cooking grease, clean wood
<br /> waste, rubble, food waste when exclusively source-separated for composting, and other
<br /> materials as may be specified by the Board of County Commissioners.
<br /> 32, Recycling. The process by which solid waste or recovered materials are collected, separated,
<br /> or processed,and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products.
<br /> 33. Regulated recyclable material. The recyclable material as designed in this ordinance as
<br /> recyclable material.
<br /> 34. Regulated recyclable material collector. any person who collects regulated recyclable waste.
<br /> 35. Scrap tires. a tire that is no longer suitable for its original,intended purpose because of wear,
<br /> damage,or defect.
<br /> 36. Septage. solid waste that is a fluid mixture of untreated and partially treated sewage solids,
<br /> liquids,and sludge of human or domestic origin which is removed from a septic tank system.
<br /> 37. Sharps. needles, syringes, scalpel blades, and other_sharp objects generated in the same
<br /> manner and subject to the same limitations as medical waste.
<br /> 38. Sludge. any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial,
<br /> institutional or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air
<br /> pollution control facility,or any other waste having similar characteristics and effects.
<br /> 39. Solid waste. construction and demolition waste; regulated recyclable material; hazardous or
<br /> nonhazardous garbage; refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment
<br /> plant, or air pollution control facility; domestic sewage and sludges generated by the
<br /> treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems; and any
<br /> other material that is either discarded or is being accumulated, stored,or treated prior to being
<br /> discarded, or has served its original intended use and is generally discarded, including solid,
<br /> liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional,
<br /> commercial, and 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 sanitary sewage
<br /> collection, treatment and disposal systems which are designed to discharge effluents
<br /> to the surface waters.
<br /> 2) Irrigation return flows.
<br /> 3) Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by treatment
<br /> which are point sources subject to permits granted under Section 402 of the Water
<br /> Pollution Control Act, as amended (P.L. 92-500), and permits granted under
<br /> N.C.G.S. § 143-215.1 by the Environmental Management Commission. However,
<br /> any sludges that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be
<br /> considered a solid waste for the purposes of this Article.
<br /> c. Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the
<br /> General Statutes. However, any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the criteria
<br /> for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the. purposes of this
<br /> Article.
<br /> d. Any source, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act
<br /> of 1954,as amended(42 U.S.C. § 2011).
<br /> e. Mining refuse covered by the North Carolina Mining act, N.C.G.S. § 74-46 through 74-
<br /> 68 and regulated by the North Carolina Mining Commission (as defined under N.C.G.S.
<br /> § 143B-290). However, any specific mining waste that meets the criteria for hazardous
<br /> waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this Article.
<br /> f. Recovered material.
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