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<br />30. Recovered material. The term "recovered material" means a material that has known recycling potential, can
<br />be feasibly recycled, and has been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, or reuse. In
<br />orderto qualify as a recovered material, a material must meet the requirements ofN.C.G.S. § 130-309.05(c).
<br />31. Recyclable construction and demolition material. The term "recyclable construction and demolition material"
<br />includes clean wood waste, metals (except closed drums and tanks), concrete and other inert debris, and
<br />unpainted drywall resulting generally from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition operations on
<br />pavement, buildings, or other structures.
<br />32. Recyclable material. The term "recyclable material" includes, but is not limited to, recyclable construction and
<br />demolition materials, aluminum, drink boxes, corrugated cardboard and Kraft paper, glass bottles and jars,
<br />magazines, ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, motor oil, newspaper, office -paper, scrap paper; plastic bottles
<br />including milk jugs, soda bottles, steel and tin cans, telephone directories, yard debris, cooking grease, clean
<br />wood waste, rubble, food waste when exclusively source-separated for composting, and other materials as may
<br />be specified by the Board of County Commissioners.
<br />33. Recycling. The term "recycling" refers to the process by which solid waste or recovered materials are
<br />collected, separated, or processed, and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products.
<br />34. Regulated recyclable material. The term "regulated recyclable material" means the recyclable material as
<br />designed in this ordinance as recyclable material.
<br />35. Regulated recyclable material collector. The term "regulated recyclable: material collector" shall mean any
<br />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, intended purpose
<br />because of wear, damage, or defect.
<br />37. Septage. The term "septage" means solid waste that is a fluid mixture of untreated and partially treated sewage
<br />solids, liquids, and sludge of human or domestic origin which is removed from a septic tank system.
<br />38. Sharps. The term "sharps" means needles, syringes, scalpel blades, and other sharp objects generated in the
<br />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 municipal,
<br />commercial, institutional or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution
<br />control facility, or any other waste having similar 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 recyclable material as
<br />designated in this ordinance; yard waste; hazardous or nonhazardous garbage, refuse or sludge from a waste
<br />treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility; domestic sewage and sludges
<br />generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems; and any other
<br />material that is 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 or contained
<br />gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from
<br />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 sewage collection,
<br />treatment and disposal systems which are designed to discharge effluents to the surface waters.
<br />2) Irrigation return flows.
<br />3) Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by treatment which are
<br />point sources subject to permits granted under Section 402 of the Water Pollution Control Act,
<br />as amended (P.L. 92-500), and permits granted under N.C.G.S. § 143-215.1 by the
<br />Environmental Management Commission. However, any sludges that meet the criteria for
<br />hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be considered a solid waste for the purposes of this
<br />Article.
<br />c. Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the General
<br />Statutes. However, any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the criteria for hazardous waste
<br />under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this Article.
<br />d. Any source, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
<br />amended (42 U.S.C. § 2011).
<br />e. Mining refuse covered by the North Carolina Mining act, N.C.G.S. § 74-46 through 74-68 and
<br />regulated by the North Carolina Mining Commission (as defined under N.C.G.S. § 143B-290).
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