ORD-2001-031 Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance (2)

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draft #15- clean 09-05-2001 32. Recycling. The process by which solid waste or recovered materials are collected, separated, or processed,and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products. 33. Regulated recyclable material. The recyclable material as designed in this ordinance as recyclable material. 34. Regulated recyclable material collector. any person who collects regulated recyclable waste. 35. Scrap tires. a tire that is no longer suitable for its original,intended purpose because of wear, damage, or defect. 36 Septage. solid waste that is a fluid mixture of untreated and partially treated sewage solids, liquids, and sludge of human or domestic origin which is removed from a septic tank system. 37.-Sharps. needles, syringes, scalpel blades, and other sharp objects generated in the same manner and subject to the same limitations as medical waste. 38. Sludge. any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, institutional or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or any other waste having similar characteristics and effects. 39. Solid waste. construction and demolition waste; non-reusable wood waste; regulated recyclable material; hazardous or nonhazardous garbage; refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility; domestic sewage and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems; and any other material that is either discarded or is being accumulated, stored, or treated prior to being discarded, or has served its original intended use and is generally discarded, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. The term does not include: a. Fecal waste from fowls and animals other than humans. b. Solid or dissolved material in: 1) Domestic sewage and sludges generated by treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems which are designed to discharge effluents to the surface waters. 2) Irrigation return flows. 3) Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by treatment which are point sources subject to permits granted under Section 402 of the Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (P.L. 92-500), and permits granted under N.C.G.S. § 143-215.1 by the Environmental Management Commission. However, any sludges that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be considered a solid waste for the purposes of this Article. c. Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes. However, any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this Article. d. Any source, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,as amended(42 U.S.C. §2011). e. Mining refuse covered by the North Carolina Mining act, N.C.G.S. § 74-46 through 74- 68 and regulated by the North Carolina Mining Commission (as defined under N.C.G.S. § 143B-290). However, any specific mining waste that meets the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this Article. f. Recovered material. g. Yard waste. 40. Solid Waste Advisory Board. The policy advisory board of the Board, the County Manager and the Solid Waste Management Department as described and with membership as provided in the Agreement for Solid Waste Management among Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro,Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. 10