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<br /> g. Yard waste.
<br /> 40.,Solid Waste Advisory Board. The policy advisory board of the Board, the County Manager
<br /> and the Solid Waste Management Department as described and with membership as provided
<br /> in the Agreement for Solid Waste Management among Orange County and the Towns of
<br /> Carrboro,Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.
<br /> 41. Solid waste facility. any publicly owned solid waste management facility permitted by the
<br /> State of North Carolina that receives solid waste for processing,treatment, or disposal.
<br /> 42. Solid waste disposal site. any place at which solid waste is legally disposed of by any
<br /> method.
<br /> 43. Solid waste management. The purposeful, systematic control of the generation, storage,
<br /> collection, transport, separation, treatment, processing, recycling, recovery and disposal of
<br /> solid waste.
<br /> 44. Special waste, solid waste that can require special handling and management,including white
<br /> goods,whole tires,used oil,lead-acid batteries,and medical wastes.
<br /> 45. Storage. The containment of solid waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years,
<br /> in a manner which does not constitute disposal.
<br /> 46. Structure. any construction, production, or piece of work artificially built up or composed of
<br /> parts purposefully joined together.
<br /> 47. Treatment. any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change
<br /> the physical,chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to
<br /> neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport,
<br /> amenable for recovery, amenable for storage or reduced in volume. "Treatment' includes
<br /> any activity or processing designed to change the physical form or chemical composition of
<br /> hazardous waste so as to render it nonhazardous.
<br /> 48, Vehicle. any means by which someone or something is carried or transported.
<br /> 49. White goods. The term "white goods"includes refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers,
<br /> unit air conditioners, washing machines, dishwashers, clothes dryers, and other similar
<br /> domestic and commercial large appliances.
<br /> 50. Yard waste. The term "yard wastes"means those organic materials commonly consisting of
<br /> leaves, grass, weeds, hedge clippings, yard and garden waste, Christmas trees, pine straw,
<br /> branches, small logs, twigs, and all vegetative matter resulting from residential landscaping
<br /> activities.
<br /> SECTION DL EFFECTIVE DATE.
<br /> i,rrtended 6127102 The effective date of this ordinance is October 1.2002 3uly-1,2992,
<br /> Isg;orangeaountykxylable materials ordinance adopted version with 2002 antendmenta
<br /> Adopted 12/11/2001
<br /> Amended 6/27/2002
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