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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 fire 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, ar 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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