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<br /> 31. Recyclable construction and demolition material. The term "recyclable construction and
<br /> demolition material" includes clean wood waste, metals (except closed drums and tanks),
<br /> concrete and other inert debris, and unpainted drywall resulting generally from construction,
<br /> remodeling,repair,or demolition operations on pavement,buildings,or other structures.
<br /> 32. Recyclable material. The term "recyclable material' includes, but.is not limited to,
<br /> recyclable construction and demolition materials, aluminum, drink boxes, corrugated
<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 debris,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 /> 33. Recycling. The term "recycling" refers to the process by which solid waste or recovered
<br /> materials are collected, separated, or processed, and reused or returned to use in the form of
<br /> raw materials or products.
<br /> 34. Regulated recyclable material. The term "regulated recyclable material' means the
<br /> recyclable material as designed in this ordinance as recyclable material.
<br /> 35. Regulated recyclable material collector. The term "regulated recyclable material collector"
<br /> shall mean any person who collects regulated recyclable waste.
<br /> 36. Scrap tires. The term "scrap tires" means a tire that is no longer suitable for its original,
<br /> intended purpose because of wear, damage, or defect.
<br /> 37. Septage. The term "septage" means solid waste that is a fluid mixture of untreated and
<br /> partially treated sewage solids, liquids, and sludge of human or domestic origin which is
<br /> removed from a septic tank system.
<br /> 38. Sharps. The term "sharps" means needles, syringes, scalpel blades, and other sharp objects
<br /> generated in the same manner and subject to the same limitations as medical waste.
<br /> 39. Sludge. The term "sludge" means any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a
<br /> municipal, commercial, institutional or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply
<br /> treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or any other waste having similar
<br /> characteristics and effects.
<br /> 40. Small dead animals. The term"small dead animals"shall mean animals under 125 pounds.
<br /> 41. Solid waste. The term "solid waste" means construction and demolition waste; regulated
<br /> recyclable material as designated in this ordinance; yard waste; hazardous or nonhazardous
<br /> garbage, refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air
<br /> pollution control facility; domestic sewage and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in
<br /> sanitary sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems; and any other material that is
<br /> either discarded or is being accumulated, stored, or treated prior to being discarded, or has
<br /> served its original intended use and is generally discarded, including solid, liquid, semisolid
<br /> or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial, and
<br /> agricultural operations,and from community activities. The term does not 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
<br /> sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems which are designed to
<br /> 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 Section
<br /> 402 of the Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (P.L. 92-500), and
<br /> permits granted under N.C.G.S. § 143-215.1 by the Environmental
<br /> Management Commission. However, any sludges that meet the criteria for
<br /> hazardous waste.under RCRA shall also be considered a solid waste for the
<br /> purposes of this Article.
<br /> c. Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under Article 21A of Chapter 143 of
<br /> the General Statutes. However, any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the
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