For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CLASS I SOLID WASTE. Includes, and is limited to, those solid wastes classified or identified by EPA and the state as hazardous waste. Examples may, or may not, include the following:
(1) Municipal and domestic wastes such as septic tank pumpings, raw sewage sludge, chemical toilet wastes, infectious medical wastes, and incinerator ashes; and
(2) Commercial and industrial waste such as sludges from air and water pollution control equipment, ashes and dusts from incinerators and air pollution control devices, caustic acids, waste chemicals, paint sludges, spent cleaning fluids and solvents, petroleum wastes, discarded chemical containers, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and discarded, unrinsed pesticide containers.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-2)
CLASS II SOLID WASTE. As defined by the state and the Environmental Protection Agency. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) HOUSE REFUSE means all solid waste that normally originates in a residential environment. Minor amounts of hazardous waste are contemplated to be within the scope of this term;
(2) Decomposable wastes and mixed solid wastes containing decomposable material, excluding hazardous waste;
(3) Municipal and domestic wastes, such as garbage and putrescible organic materials, paper, cardboard, cloth, glass, metal, plastics, street sweepings, yard and garden waste, digested sewage treatment sludges, water treatment sludges, ashes, dead animals, offal, discarded appliances, and abandoned automobiles;
(4) Hospital and medical facility wastes, provided that infectious medical wastes have been sterilized or safely contained to prevent the danger of disease;
(5) Commercial and industrial wastes such as packaging materials, liquid or solid industrial process wastes, which are chemically or biologically decomposable, crop residues, manure, chemical fertilizers, and emptied pesticide containers which have been triple rinsed, or processed, by methods approved by the Department.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-3)
CLASS III SOLID WASTES. As defined by the state and the Environmental Protection Agency, CLASS III SOLID WASTES include, but is not limited to: wood wastes and non-water soluble; essentially inert solids, such as brick, dirt, rock, concrete, or vehicle tires; and industrial mineral wastes which are essentially inert and non-water soluble, and do not contain hazardous waste constituents.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-4)
GENERATOR. An individual, firm, partnership, family business, company, association, corporation, town, local government entity, or any other governmental or private entity, whether organized for profit or not, within the corporate limits of the town.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-5)
HAZARDOUS WASTE. A waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semi-solid form which may, by concentration or quantity, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristic, 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 environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-2)
REFUSE CONTAINER. A portable facility used for the temporary storage of solid waste. Containers are emptied periodically, and the solid waste is then taken to a disposal or resource recovery facility.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-6)
RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITY. A facility at which solid waste is processed for the purpose of extracting, converting to energy, or otherwise separating and preparing solid waste for reuse.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-7)
RESOURCE RECOVERY SYSTEM. A solid waste management system which provides for the collection, separation, recycling, or recovery of solid wastes, including disposal of non-recoverable waste residues.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-8)
STORAGE. The actual or intended containment of wastes, whether on a temporary basis or for a period of years.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-9)