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draft # I S <br />09-05-2001 <br />SECTION VIII. DEFINITIONS. <br />For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following definitions shall apply: <br />1. Ashes. refuse resulting from the burning of wood, coal, cork or other combustible material <br />which has no live embers. <br />2. Board. The Board of Commissioners of Orange County. <br />3. Bulk material. A tightly constructed metal, plastic or other material container of two (2) cubic <br />yards or greater capacity and of a design approved by the County manager as being capable <br />of being emptied by equipment <br />4. Clean wood waste. wood waste from construction and demolition activity that is not treated, <br />free of paint <br />5. Collection. The act of removing solid waste (including construction and demolition waste, <br />land-clearing c~bris or recyclable materials) from a point of generation to a central storage <br />point or to a disposal site, and from a central storage point processing center to a disposal site. <br />6. Construction and demolition waste. solid waste resulting generally from construction, <br />remodeling, repair, or demolition operations on pavement, buildings, or other structures. <br />7. Corrugated cardboard. three-layered cardboard material with a middle, wavy layer. <br />Nonrecyclable cardboard, such as waxed boxes, cardboard adhered to packing material (such <br />as Styrofoam or wooden or plastic supports) and cardboard saturated with motor oil or <br />foodstuffs in its normal use before disposal are excluded from this defmition. <br />8. Department. The Solid Waste Management Department. <br />9. DepartmentDirector. The Director of the Solid Waste Management Department. <br />10. Disposal. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any solid <br />waste into or on any land or water so that the solid waste or any constituent part of the solid <br />waste may enter the environrnent or by emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, <br />including groundwaters. <br />11. Food waste. food that has been prepared for human consumption and was not served or <br />otherwise used for food. <br />12. Garbage. all putrescible wastes, including animal offal and carcasses, and recognizable <br />industrial by-products, but excluding sewage and human wastes. <br />13. Hazardous waste. solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, <br />concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may (1) cause or <br />significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or <br />incapacitating reversible illness; or (2) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human <br />health or the environrnent when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or <br />otherwise managed. <br />14. Industrial solid waste. all waste generated from factories, processing plants and other <br />manufacturing enterprises that is not hazardous waste as defined in this section. Such waste <br />may include, but is not limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing <br />processes: Electric power generation; fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; food and related <br />products/by-products; inorganic chemicals, iron, and steel manufacturing; leather and leather <br />products; nonferrous metals manufacturing foundries; organic chemicals; plastics and resins <br />manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, <br />glass, clay, and concrete products; textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and waste <br />treatment The term does not include mining waste or gas waste. <br />8 <br />