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<br />SECTION VII. DEFINITIONS.
<br />For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following definitions shall apply:
<br />1. Animal litter. The term "animal litter" shall mean droppings from cats, dogs, birds, or other
<br />animals and material used in pens, cages, or animal boxes.
<br />2. Ashes. The term "ashes" shall mean refuse resulting from the burning of wood, coal, cork or
<br />other combustible material which has no live embers.
<br />3. Board. The term "Board" shall refer to the Board of Commissioners of Orange County.
<br />4. Bulk material. The term "bulk container" shall mean a tightly constructed metal, plastic or
<br />other material container of two (2) cubic yards or greater capacity and of a design approved
<br />by the County manager as being capable of being emptied by equipment.
<br />5. Clean wood waste. The term "Clean wood waste" means wood waste from construction and
<br />demolition activity that is not treated, free of paint, and free of glues and adhesives.
<br />b. Coddection. The term "collection" means the act of removing solid waste (including
<br />construction and demolition waste, land-clearing debris or recyclable materials) from a point
<br />of generation to a central storage point or to a disposal site, and from a central storage paint
<br />processing center to a disposal site.
<br />7. Construction and demolition waste. The term "construction and demolition waste" shall
<br />mean solid waste resulting generally from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition
<br />operations on pavement, buildings, or other structures.
<br />$. Corrugated cardboard. The term "corrugated cardboard" means three-layered cardboard
<br />material with a middle; wavy layer. Nonrecyclable cardboard, such as ,waxed boxes,
<br />cardboard adhered to packing material (such as Styrofoam or wooden or plastic supports) and
<br />cardboard saturated with motor oil or foodstuffs in its normal use before disposal are
<br />excluded from this definition.
<br />9. Department. The term "Department" means the Solid Waste Management Department.
<br />10. Department Director. The term "Department Director" means the Director of the Solid
<br />Waste Management Department.
<br />11. Disposal. The term "disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling,
<br />leaking or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or water so that the solid waste or
<br />any constituent part of the solid waste may enter the environment or by emitted into the air or
<br />discharged into any waters, including groundwaters.
<br />12. Food waste. The term "food waste" means food that has been prepared for human
<br />consumption and was not served or otherwise used for food.
<br />13. Garbage. The word "garbage" means .all putrescible wastes, including animal offal and
<br />,carcasses, and recognizable industrial by-products, but excluding sewage and human wastes.
<br />14. Hazardous waste. The term "hazardous waste" means a solid waste, or combination of solid
<br />wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious
<br />characteristics may (1) cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an
<br />increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or (2) pose a substantial
<br />present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated,
<br />stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed.
<br />15. Industrial solid waste. The term "industrial solid waste" shall mean all waste generated from
<br />factories, processing plants and other manufacturing enterprises that is not hazardous waste as
<br />defined in this section. Such waste may include, but is not limited to, waste resulting from
<br />the following manufacturing processes: Electric power generation; fertilizer/agricultural
<br />chemicals; food and related products/by-products; inorganic chemicals, iron, and steel
<br />manufacturing; leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing ,foundries;
<br />organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and
<br />miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete products; textile
<br />manufacturing; transportation equipment; and waste treatment. The term does not include
<br />mining waste or gas waste.
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