For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning;
ASBESTOS. Any of the naturally occurring mineral fibers of the serpentine and amphibole series including actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysolite, crocidolite, and tremolite.
BULKY WASTE. Large items of solid waste which because of their size or weight require handling other than normally used for solid waste. BULKY WASTE includes but is not necessarily limited to such items as auto bodies, tree trunks and stumps, appliances, and furniture, but does not include recyclable appliances.
CLEAN FILL. An uncontaminated non-water-soluble, nondecomposable, inert solid such as rock, soil materials, and gravel.
COLLECTION. The act of picking up solid waste at its point of generation or storage and placing it in a vehicle.
COMPTROLLER. The Department of the Comptroller for Carroll County, or its successor agency.
CONSTRUCTION/DEMOLITION WASTE. Does not include the following if they are separated from other waste and used as clean fill:
(1) Uncontaminated soil, rock, stone, gravel, unused brick, and block and concrete; and
(2) Waste from land clearing, grubbing, and excavation including trees, brush, and vegetative material.
CONTAINER. Any portable device in which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise handled.
CONTAMINATED SOIL. A portion of solid waste consisting of hydrocarbon contaminated earth or fill, typically generated due to a spill or leak. CONTAMINATED SOIL is a special handling waste.
COUNTY. Where appropriate to the context, the area located within the geographic boundaries of the county, including the municipalities located therein.
COUNTY FACILITY. Any solid waste acceptance facility owned or operated by or on behalf of the county.
DEPARTMENT. The Department of Public Works, or its successor agency.
DISPOSAL. The storage, treatment, utilization, processing, or final disposition of solid waste, specifically including the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwater.
DISPOSAL FACILITY. A waste management facility used for the final disposal of residual materials not currently reusable for either technological or economic reasons.
ENVIRONMENTALLY UNSOUND. Any persistent or continuous condition resulting from the methods of operation or design that impairs the quality of the environment when compared to the surrounding background environment or violates any federal, state, county, or municipal standard.
FREE LIQUIDS. Liquids which readily separate from the solid portion of a waste under ambient temperature and pressure.
FRIABLE ASBESTOS MATERIAL. Any material that contains more than 1% asbestos by weight and that can be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder, when dry, by hand pressure or otherwise could become airborne.
GENERATOR. Any person who produces any waste materials regulated by this subchapter.
HAULAGE VEHICLE. A vehicle designed for and used to transport solid waste between one solid waste facility and another; a transfer vehicle.
HAULER. A person engaged in the act of collection of solid waste and/or transporting such waste between solid waste facilities.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. Any refuse, sludge, or other waste material or combination of refuse, sludge, or other waste materials in solid, semisolid, liquid, or gaseous form, which, because of its quantity, concentrations, or chemical, physical, or infectious characteristics, as defined in 40 C.F.R. Part 261, may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed. Categories of HAZARDOUS WASTE materials include but are not limited to explosives, flammables, oxidizers, and reactive wastes, poisons, irritants, and corrosives.
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE. Hazardous waste, as defined above, generated in a residential household, that is exempt from the regulations governing the storage, transport, and disposal of hazardous waste, due to the relatively small volume of generation by a single generator or household.
MDE. Maryland Department of the Environment.
MATERIALS RECOVERY FACILITY (MRF). A solid waste facility, such as a transfer station or waste processing facility, that is designed, operated, and permitted to process a nonhazardous waste stream by utilizing manual and/or mechanical methods to separate from the incoming waste stream categories of useful, reusable, or recyclable material for reprocessing and reuse.
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW). Garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash, and other solid waste from residential, commercial, industrial, and community generators which is collected in aggregate, but does not include special handling wastes, hazardous waste, household hazardous waste, recyclables, residual waste, auto hulks, ash, construction and demolition debris, mining wastes, sludge, agricultural wastes, tires, and other materials collected, processed, and disposed of as separate waste streams.
OPEN BURNING. The combustion of any material without any of the following characteristics:
(1) Control of combustion air to maintain adequate temperature for efficient combustion;
(2) Containment of the combustion reaction in an enclosed device to provide sufficient residence time and mixing for complete combustion; or
(3) Control of emission of the gaseous combustion products.
PERSON. An individual, trust, firm, joint-stock company, federal agency, corporation (including a government corporation), corporate official, partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, or any interstate body.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW). Any device or system which is owned by the state, a municipality or a public authority and used in the treatment (including recycling and reclamation) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature. This definition includes sewers, pipes, or other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW providing treatment.
RECYCLABLE WHITE GOODS. Consist of large appliances (i.e., generally weighing more than 50 pounds), including but not necessarily limited to the following: air conditioners, clothes washing and drying machines, dish washers, hot water heaters, refrigerators and freezers, or stoves and ovens.
RECYCLABLES or RECYCLABLE MATERIALS. Those materials that can readily be separated from the waste stream and readily reused in their present form or can be converted into raw materials from which new products can be manufactured.
RECYCLING or RECLAMATION. Any lawful method, technique, or process used to collect, store, separate, process, modify, convert, treat, or otherwise prepare recyclable materials.
RESIDUE. Any material that remains after completion of manual, thermal, mechanical, or chemical processing.
RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITY. Any place, equipment, device, or plan designed and/or operated to separate or process solid or liquid waste into usable secondary materials, including fuel and energy.
SALVAGING. The controlled removal of any solid waste from solid waste disposal facility for reuse.
SANITARY LANDFILL. A facility at which solid waste is deposited on or into the land as fill for the purpose of permanent disposal and which has received all necessary permits.
SCAVENGE or SCAVENGING. Removal of recyclables or other items from the waste stream without the prior approval of the generator or, if removed by the generator and placed for delivery to a hauler or committed to a hauler, without the prior permission of the hauler; or removal in a manner not authorized in this subchapter. It does not include separation or segregation of waste for purposes of implementing the county’s recycling program.
SLUDGE. Any solid, semisolid, or liquid residue consisting of solids combined with water and dissolved materials in varying amounts generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial water or wastewater treatment plant or flue gas scrubber. SLUDGE includes fecal matters from whatever source.
SMALL BUSINESS. Any business that has fewer than 25 full-time employees. The business may be constituted under any legal form.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage, refuse, residue, sludge, and other nonliquid discarded materials resulting from personal, residential, community, mining, agricultural, industrial, or commercial activity, including recyclables. SOLID WASTE does not include solids or dissolved materials found in domestic sewage or other untreated pollutants (i.e., silt or other dissolved or suspended solids found in water or wastewater and any hazardous waste).
SOLID WASTE ACCEPTANCE FACILITY. Any sanitary landfill, combustion plant (i.e., incinerator), transfer station, resource recovery facility, or MRF, which has a primary purpose to dispose of, treat, or process solid wastes.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT. The systematic and integrated administration of activities involving the collection, separation, storage, transportation, transfer, reuse, or disposal of solid wastes considering adequate measures for environmental protection, sound engineering, and efficient economics.
SPECIAL HANDLING WASTES. A portion of municipal solid waste which consists of sludge, ash residue, contaminated soil, asbestos waste, or other waste designated by the county.
TRANSFER STATION. An intermediate waste facility at which mixed municipal solid waste or other materials are temporarily deposited before being transported to a processing facility or final disposal site.
TREATMENT. Any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste, or so as to recover energy or material resources from the waste, or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, or less hazardous, safer to transport, store, or dispose of, or amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.
WASTE STREAM. All MSW, industrial waste, hazardous waste, medical waste, recyclables, and sludge in any form (i.e., solid, liquid, or gaseous) that is disposed of by the generator.
YARD WASTE. Any materials normally generated in the maintenance of gardens, yards, lawns, or landscaped areas, whether residential, commercial, or public, including leaves, grass clippings, plants, shrubs, prunings, and trimmings. YARD WASTE does not include other tree waste, land clearing debris, waste pavement, or soil.
(2004 Code, § 185-1) (Ord. 94, passed 5-21-1992; Ord. 02-08, passed 4-25-2002)