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<br />However, any specific mining waste that meets the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also
<br />be a solid waste for the purposes of this Article.
<br />f. Recovered material.
<br />42. Solid Waste Advisory Board. The term "Solid Waste Advisory Board" means the policy advisory board of the
<br />Board, the County Manager and the Solid Waste Management Department as described and with membership
<br />as provided in the Agreement for Solid Waste Management among Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro,
<br />Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.
<br />43. Solid waste facility. The term "solid waste facility" means any publicly owned solid waste management facility
<br />permitted by the State of North Carolina that receives solid waste for processing, treatment, or disposal.
<br />44. Solid waste disposal site. The term "solid waste disposal site" means any place at which solid waste is legally
<br />disposed of by any method.
<br />45. Solid waste management. The term "solid waste management" means the purposeful, systematic control of the
<br />generation, storage, collection, transport, separation, treatment, processing, recycling, recovery and disposal of
<br />solid waste.
<br />46. Special waste. The term "special waste" means solid waste that can require special handling and management,
<br />including white goods, whole tires, used oil, lead-acid batteries, and medical wastes.
<br />47. Storage. The tern "storage" means the containment of solid waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period
<br />of years, in a manner which-does not constitute disposal. '
<br />48. Structure. The term "structure means any construction, production, or piece of work artificially built up.or
<br />composed of parts purposefully joined together.
<br />49. Treatment. The term "treatment" means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed
<br />to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to
<br />neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery,
<br />amenable for storage or reduced in volume. "Treatment" includes any activity or processing designed to
<br />change the physical form or chemical composition of hazardous waste so as to render it nonhazardous.
<br />50. Vehicle. The term "vehicle" shall mean any means by which someone or something is carried or transported.
<br />51. White goods. The term "white goods" includes refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, unit air
<br />conditioners, washing machines, dishwashers, clothes dryers, and other similar domestic and commercial large
<br />appliances. .
<br />52. Yard waste. The term "yard wastes" means those organic materials commonly consisting of leaves, grass,
<br />weeds, hedge clippings, yard and garden waste, Christmas trees, pine straw, branches, small logs, twigs, and all
<br />vegetative matter resulting from residential landscaping activities.
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