For the purpose of this section, whenever any of the following words or terms are used herein, they shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section unless the context otherwise clearly requires:
HAZARDOUS HOSPITAL WASTES: Pursuant to the regulations promulgated by the Illinois environmental protection act, "hazardous hospital wastes" means waste generated in connection with patient care that is contaminated with or may be contaminated with an infectious agent that has the potential of inducing an infection and has not been rendered innocuous by sterilization or incineration.
HAZARDOUS WASTE: Pursuant to the regulations promulgated by the Illinois environmental protection act, "hazardous waste" means a waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed, and which has been identified, by characteristics or listing, as hazardous pursuant to section 3001 of the resource conservation and recovery act of 1976, PL 94-580, or pursuant to board regulations.
INCINERATOR: An industrial waste disposal site or an industrial waste treatment facility which disposes of and/or burns any hazardous and/or toxic waste, hazardous and/or toxic hospital waste, municipal waste, industrial process waste, and pollution control waste.
INDUSTRIAL PROCESS WASTE: Pursuant to the regulations promulgated by the Illinois environmental protection act, "industrial process waste" means any liquid, solid, semisolid, or gaseous waste generated as a direct or indirect result of the manufacture of a product or the performance of a service. Any such waste which would pose a present or potential threat to human health or to the environment or with inherent properties which make the disposal of such waste in a landfill difficult to manage by normal means is an industrial process waste. "Industrial process waste" includes, but is not limited to, spent pickling liquors, cutting oils, chemical catalysts, distillation bottoms, etching acids, equipment cleanings, paint sludges, incinerator ashes, core sands, metallic dust sweepings, asbestos dust, hospital pathological wastes and off specification, contaminated or recalled wholesale or retail products. Specifically excluded are uncontaminated packaging materials, uncontaminated machinery components, general household waste, landscape waste and construction or demolition debris.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISPOSAL SITE: A site where industrial waste is disposed of.
MUNICIPAL WASTE: Pursuant to the regulations promulgated by the Illinois environmental protection act, "municipal waste" means garbage, general household and commercial waste, landscape waste and construction or demolition debris.
POLLUTION CONTROL WASTE: Pursuant to the regulations promulgated by the Illinois environmental protection act, "pollution control waste" means any liquid, solid, semisolid or gaseous waste generated as a direct or indirect result of the removal of contaminants from the air, water or land, and which pose a present or potential threat to human health or to the environment or with inherent properties which make the disposal of such waste in a landfill difficult to manage by normal means. "Pollution control waste" includes, but is not limited to, water and wastewater treatment plant sludges, baghouse dusts, scrubber sludges and chemical spill cleanings.
TOXIC WASTE: Waste or combination of waste, having the character or producing the effects of a poison or poisonous substance which pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or to the environment.
WASTE: Pursuant to the regulations promulgated by the Illinois environmental protection act, "waste" means any garbage, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the clean water act or source, special nuclear, or byproduct materials as defined by the atomic energy act of 1954, as amended (68 stat. 921) or any solid or dissolved material from any facility subject to the federal surface mining control and reclamation act of 1977 (PL 95-87) or the rules and regulations thereunder or any law or rule or regulation adopted by the state of Illinois pursuant thereto. (Ord. 90-818, 4-26-1990)