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<br />09-05-2001
<br />40. Solid Waste Advisory Board. The policy advisory board of the Board, the County Manager
<br />and the Solid Waste Management Department as described and with membership as provided
<br />in the Agreement for Solid Waste Management among Orange County and the Towns of
<br />Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.
<br />41. Solid waste facility. any publicly owned solid waste management facility permitted by the
<br />State of North Carolina that receives solid waste for processing, treatment, or disposal.
<br />42. Solid waste disposal site. any place at which solid waste is legally disposed of by any
<br />method.
<br />43. Solid waste management. The purposeful, systematic control of the generation, storage,
<br />collection, transport, separation, treatment, processing, recycling, recovery and disposal of
<br />solid waste.
<br />44. Special waste. solid waste that can require special handling and management, including white
<br />goods, whole tires, used oil, lead-acid batteries, and medical wastes.
<br />45. Storage. The containrnent of solid waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years,
<br />in a manner which does not constitute disposal.
<br />46. Structure. any construction, production, or piece of work artificially built up or composed of
<br />parts purposefully joined together.
<br />47. Treatment. any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change
<br />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,
<br />amenable for recovery, amenable for storage or reduced in volume. "Treatment" includes
<br />any activity or processing designed to change the physical form or chemical composition of
<br />hazardous waste so as to render it nonhazardous.
<br />48. Vehicle. any means by which someone or something is carried or transported.
<br />49. White goods. The term "white goods" includes refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers,
<br />unit air conditioners, washing machines, dishwashers, clothes dryers, and other similar
<br />domestic and commercial large appliances.
<br />50. Yard waste. The term `hard wastes" means those organic materials commonly consisting of
<br />leaves, grass, weeds, hedge clippings, yard and garden waste, Christmas trees, pine straw,
<br />branches, small logs, twigs, and all vegetative matter resulting from residential landscaping
<br />activities.
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