§ 21-101. Definitions.

(a)

As used in this Division and in Division 3 of this Subtitle:

(1)

Approved recycling facility shall mean a County recycling facility or a private recycling facility so designated by the County. An approved recycling facility may also be a materials recovery facility as defined in Section 21-143(a)(22).

(2)

Approved solid waste acceptance facility shall mean a County solid waste acceptance facility or a private solid waste acceptance facility so designated by the County.

(3)

Ashes shall mean the noncombustible residue from the burning of wood, coal, and other combustible materials in homes, stores, institutions, and industrial establishments for the purpose of heating, cooking, and disposing of waste combustible material, and, unless otherwise specified, does not include tin cans, scrap metal, and glass.

(4)

Commercial refuse shall mean the refuse from wholesale and retail stores, restaurants, hotels, motels, gas stations, florists, beauty shops, barbershops, doctors' offices, variety stores, hardware stores, and other enterprises of this nature.

(5)

County recycling and disposal system shall mean the County's system for the recycling, management, and disposal of solid waste and recyclable material at any County solid waste disposal acceptance facility or County recycling facility or pursuant to any solid waste or recycling contract. The County recycling and disposal system includes, but is not limited to:

(A)

County solid waste acceptance facilities and County recycling facilities;

(B)

Solid waste or recycling contracts;

(C)

All interests in or associated with real and personal property acquired, constructed, or operated by the County or by other parties pursuant to solid waste or recycling contracts; and

(D)

All plants, systems, facilities, equipment, properties, rights, easements, or other interests in land necessary or desirable for the operation of the County recycling and disposal system, including, but not limited to, facilities for the recovery of useful products or materials from solid waste, the processing of solid waste and recyclable material, and the sale of materials or products derived from solid waste and recyclable material.

(6)

County recycling facility shall mean a recycling facility as designated by the Department of the Environment in accordance with Section 21-112.

(7)

County solid waste acceptance facility shall mean a solid waste acceptance facility as designated by the Department of the Environment in accordance with Section 21-112.

(8)

Garbage shall mean the entrails or waste products of any animal, fish, or fowl; sludge; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen, market, store, or abattoir; or any admixture of these materials with other refuse or feeding material.

(9)

Hazardous and special waste shall mean hazardous solid and liquid wastes such as highly flammable materials; explosives; pathological wastes; poisons; infectious wastes from doctors' offices such as syringes, patients' specimens, discarded dressings, etc.; and radioactive materials.

(10)

Incineration shall mean the destruction by combustion, in which heat, not less than twelve hundred (1,200) degrees Fahrenheit, is applied to all classes of waste material, within a properly designed plant approved by the Department of the Environment.

(11)

Industrial refuse shall mean solid waste material from factories, processing plants, and other manufacturing enterprises, including putrescible garbage from food processing plants and slaughterhouses, condemned foods, building rubbish, cinders from power plants, and manufacturing refuse.

(12)

Offal shall mean the waste animal matter from butcher and slaughter or packing houses.

(13)

Open dump shall mean any land publicly or privately owned, other than a sanitary landfill, on which there is deposit and accumulation, either temporary or permanent, of any kind of organic or inorganic refuse.

(14)

Private solid waste acceptance facility shall mean a solid waste acceptance facility other than a County solid waste acceptance facility which has been authorized by the Department of the Environment in accordance with Section 21-112(b) to accept certain types of solid waste.

(15)

Recyclable material shall have the meaning set forth in Subsection 21-143(a)(30).

(16)

Recycling facility shall mean any facility that accepts recyclable materials for any recycling process, compacting, or transfer to another recycling facility, including any materials recovery facility as defined in Section 21-143(a)(22).

(17)

Refuse shall mean ashes, commercial and industrial refuse, garbage, rubbish, offal wastes of any type, and trash.

(18)

Refuse collection shall mean the removal and conveyance of refuse from temporary storage points to disposal sites by municipalities, contractors, and others.

(19)

Refuse disposal shall mean the method of final disposition of refuse.

(20)

Refuse storage shall mean the temporary storage of refuse by households and commercial establishments, all of which is produced on the premises where the refuse is stored.

(21)

Revenue bonds shall mean any bonds, notes, or other obligations of the County issued pursuant to Section 21-137.05.

(22)

Rubbish shall mean all solid waste other than garbage, offal, and ashes from homes, hotels, stores, institutions, markets, and other establishments; further classified as combustible (mostly paper, wood, and cloth) and noncombustible (metals, glass, and crockery).

(23)

Sanitary landfill shall mean a planned and systematic method of refuse disposal whereby the waste material is placed in the earth in layers, then compacted and covered with earth or other approved cover material at the end of each day's operation.

(24)

Sludge is defined as any and all residue, product, or by-product, whether solid, liquid, or otherwise and whether treated or untreated of a waste water treatment facility or sewage treatment facility.

(25)

Solid waste acceptance facility shall mean any sanitary landfill, central processing facility, transfer station, medical/pathological waste incinerator or any other type of facility that accepts solid waste for disposal, treatment, processing, composting, compacting, or the transfer to another solid waste acceptance facility.

(26)

Solid waste disposal and recycling charges shall mean the charges established for use of the County recycling and disposal system for the acceptance of solid waste and recyclable material.

(27)

Solid waste or recycling contract shall mean any contract or agreement executed by the County pursuant to Section 21-137.04 which is necessary or desirable for the provision of the County recycling and disposal system. Solid waste or recycling contracts include, but are not limited to, contracts and agreements that are necessary or desirable for the acquisition, construction, operation, or maintenance of any portion of the County recycling and disposal system or the furnishing of services by or to any portion of the County recycling and disposal system. Solid waste or recycling contracts may provide for, among other things:

(A)

A County solid waste acceptance facility or a County recycling facility;

(B)

Disposal or processing services for solid waste or recyclable material;

(C)

Acquisition of real property, easements, or other real property interests or uses in furtherance of the County recycling and disposal system;

(D)

Transportation of solid waste or recyclable material;

(E)

Sale or marketing of products generated by or realized from solid waste or recyclable material;

(F)

Acquisition, construction, maintenance, repair, or operation of County solid waste acceptance facilities or County recycling facilities and related improvements and equipment, including, but not limited to, facilities for the processing of solid waste or recyclable material and other rights, interests, or services which are necessary or desirable for the operation of the County recycling and disposal system.

(28)

Solid waste (refuse) shall mean all waste materials, combustible or noncombustible, from all public and private establishments and residences, excluding those materials which are defined or designated as recyclable materials, and including yard wastes, trash, rubbish, offal, industrial refuse, and commercial refuse, but not the body excrements or rubble.

(29)

Trash shall mean rubbish and ashes.

(Gen. Res. No. 24-1967; CB-60-1974; CB-49-1984; CB-58-1989; CB-57-1990; CB-30-2014; CB-12-2018)