For the purpose of this chapter certain terms and words are defined as follows:
(1) Building material scraps. Scrap building material from the construction, reconstruction, remodeling or repair of a building, walkway, driveway, sign and other structure, including but not limited to, excavated earth, tree stumps, rocks, gravel, bricks, plaster, concrete, lumber or any other similar material used in construction or the containers or wrappings therefor.
(2) Garbage. All putrescible wastes, including animal and vegetable matter, animal offal and carcasses, and recognizable industrial by-products but excluding sewage and human wastes.
(3) Refuse. All nonputrescible wastes.
(4) Solid waste. Garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash, and other discarded solid materials, including "solid waste" materials resulting from homes, businesses, industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or other common water pollutants.
(5) Tree trimmings. Tree limbs, leaves, shrubbery, weeds, plants or grass.
State Law Reference: Regulation of trash and garbage, G.S. 160A-192.