Any term used in this chapter but not defined herein shall have the meaning defined in Dakota County Ordinance 110, Solid Waste management Section 2.00, as amended.
ASHES: | Residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke or other combustible materials. |
BACK-OF-HOUSE: | The kitchen, food preparation, dishwashing, and storage areas of a commercial generator or large event venue with organics that are not accessed by customers or the public. |
BRUSH: | Tree limbs, twigs, branches and shrubbery up to a maximum of four inches (4") in diameter. |
COMMERCIAL: | Has the same meaning as commercial generator. |
COMMERCIAL GENERATOR: | An entity that is not a residential source generator. |
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS: | Waste building materials, packaging and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, and repair. |
DEMOLITION WASTE: | Waste resulting from the demolition of man-made structures, and other similar materials specifically approved by the Dakota County Environmental Resources Department . Demolition waste excludes asbestos and other materials specifically prohibited by this ordinance and the Dakota County Environmental Resources Department. |
GARBAGE: | Discarded material resulting from the handling, processing, storage, preparation, serving and consumption of food. |
HAZARDOUS WASTE: | Any refuse, sludge, spent solutions or other waste material or combinations of refuse, sludge, spent solutions or other waste materials in solid, semi-solid, liquid or contained gaseous form which, because of its quantity, concentrations, or chemical, physical or infectious characteristics may: (a) cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or (b) 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, poisons, irritants and corrosives. Hazardous waste does not include source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. |
MAJOR APPLIANCES: | Clothes washers and dryers, dishwashers, water heaters, residential furnaces, garbage disposals, trash compactors, conventional and microwave ovens, ranges and stoves, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, refrigerators, and freezers. |
MIXED MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW): | Garbage, refuse, and other solid waste from residential, commercial, industrial, and community activities that the generator of the waste aggregates for collection but does not include auto hulks, street sweepings, ash, construction debris, mining waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes, tires, lead-acid batteries, motor or vehicle fluids and filters, and other materials collected, processed, and disposed of as separate waste streams. |
PERSON: | Any entity, individual, partnership, corporation or organization of a public or private nature, and any representative thereof. |
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS: | Materials that are suitable for separating from solid waste for the purpose of recycling including, but not limited to, paper, glass, plastics, metals, automobile oil, batteries, etc. Refuse derived fuel or other material that is destroyed by incineration is not a recyclable material. Dakota County approves and publishes a list of recyclable material types that represents the minimum haulers must accept and generators must recycle. |
REFUSE: | Something rejected or discarded as worthless or useless. |
SOLID WASTE: | Garbage, refuse, sludge from a water supply treatment plant or air containment treatment facility, and other discarded waste materials and sludges, in solid, semisolid, liquid, or contained gaseous form, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include hazardous waste, animal waste used as fertilizer, earthen fill, boulders, rock, sewage sludge, solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other common pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents or discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. |
SPECIAL WASTE: | Nonhazardous solid waste that is not mixed solid waste, ash, brush, recyclable material or yard waste and requires collection systems other than that normally required for mixed municipal solid waste. Special wastes include, but are not limited to: major appliances, furniture, tires, demolition waste, waste lumber, electrical appliances. |
WHITE GOODS: | Major appliances such as refrigerators, ovens, freezers, washers and dryers. |
YARD WASTE: | Garden wastes, leaves, lawn cuttings, weeds, shrub and tree waste, and prunings generated at residential, commercial, or public properties. (Ord. 089-214, 6-5-1989; amd. Ord. 097-405, 10-20-1997; Ord. 015-694, 3-16-2015; Ord. 021-756, 2-1-2021) |