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<br />09-05-2001
<br />soda bottles, steel and tin cans, telephone directories, yard waste, 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 />32. Recycling. The process by which solid waste or recovered materials are collected, separated,
<br />or processed, and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products.
<br />33. Regulated recyclable material. The recyclable material as designed in this ordinance as
<br />recyclable material.
<br />34. Regulated recyclable material collector. any person who collects regulated recyclable waste.
<br />35. Scrap tires. a tire that is no longer suitable for its original, intended purpose because of wear,
<br />damage, or defect.
<br />36. Septage. solid waste that is a fluid mixture of untreated and partially treated sewage solids,
<br />liquids, and sludge of human or domestic origin which is removed from a septic tank system.
<br />37. Sharps. needles, syringes, scalpel blades, and other sharp objects generated in the same
<br />manner and subject to the same limitations as medical waste.
<br />38. Sludge. any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial,
<br />institutional or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air
<br />pollution control facility, or any other waste having similar characteristics and effects.
<br />39. Solid waste construction and demolition waste; non-reusable wood waste; regulated
<br />recyclable material as designated in this ordinance; hazardous or nonhazardous garbage,
<br />refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution
<br />control facility; domestic sewage and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary
<br />sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems; and any other material that is either
<br />discarded or is being accumulated, stored, or treated prior to being discarded, or has served its
<br />original intended use and is generally discarded, including solid, liquid, semisolid or
<br />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 sewage
<br />collection, treatment and disposal systems which are designed to discharge effluents
<br />to the surface waters.
<br />2) Irrigation return flows.
<br />3) Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by treatment
<br />which are point sources subject to permits granted under Section 402 of the Water
<br />Pollution Control Act, as amended (P.L. 92-500), and permits granted under
<br />N.C.G.S. § 143-215.1 by the Environrnental Management Commission. However,
<br />any sludges that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be
<br />considered a solid waste for the purposes of this Article.
<br />c. Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the
<br />General Statutes. However, any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the criteria
<br />for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this
<br />Article.
<br />d. Any source, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act
<br />of 1954, as 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-
<br />68 and regulated by the North Carolina Mining Commission (as defined under N.C.G.S.
<br />§ 143B-290). However, any specific mining waste that meets the criteria for hazardous
<br />waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this Article.
<br />f. Recovered material.
<br />g. Yard waste.
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