For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASHES. Refuse resulting from the burning of wood, coal, or other combustible material.
BOARD. Board of Commissioners of Greene County.
BULKY WASTE. Large items of solid waste such as household appliances, furniture, junk automobiles, large junk auto parts, trees, branches, stumps, and other oversize waste whose large size precludes or complicates their handling by normal solid waste collection, processing or disposal methods.
COLLECTION. The act of removing solid waste and recyclables from a point of generation to a central storage off site point or to a disposal site, and from a central point to a disposal site.
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, businesses, and all other nonresidential uses.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE. Waste building materials, packaging, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition operations on pavements, houses, commercial buildings, and other structures.
CONVENIENCE CENTERS. Those sites which accept solid waste and recyclables from citizens for transportation to the landfill site or any other appropriate site.
DISPOSAL FACILITY. See Landfill Site.
GARBAGE. All putrescible solid wastes, including food waste and food containers, animal and vegetable matter, animal offal, carcasses, and recognizable industrial by-products, but excluding sewage and human waste.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. A solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
(1) Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
(2) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
HEALTH DIRECTOR. The Director of the Greene County Health Department, or his authorized representative.
HOUSEHOLDERS. All persons who own homes, apartments, mobile homes, duplexes or other residential structures.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Waste materials from processing plants, factories or manufacturing operations including, but not limited to: sawdust,
shavings, feathers, excelsior, cartons, boxes, metal, glass, paper, wood, textiles, chemicals, or plastics.
INDUSTRY. A place of business employing more than ten individuals and engaged in the manufacture or assembly or a product or products.
INFECTIOUS WASTE. A solid waste capable of producing an infectious disease. The types of waste designated as infectious are: Microbiological waste, Pathological waste, Blood products, and Sharps.
INSTITUTIONAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste generated by educational, health care, correctional, and other institutional facilities.
LANDFILL SITE. Land, personnel, and equipment used in the management of solid waste.
LITTER. Any material which is blown, thrown, or otherwise deposited on public or private property in violation of state or local laws and ordinances or without the property owner's permission. LITTER includes, but is not limited to: paper, cardboard, building debris, yard waste, tires.
LITTERING. The placing or failing to take steps to prevent blowing, throwing, or otherwise depositing of any material on public or private property in violation of state or local laws and ordinances or without the permission of the property owner. Litter includes, but is not limited to: paper, cardboard, building debris, garbage, yard waste, tires.
PERSON. An individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, governmental unit or agency, or other legal entity.
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MATERIAL. Any waste containing radioactive material as defined in N.C.G.S. 104E-5(14), which is hereby adopted by reference.
RECYCLING. The separation, collecting, processing and marketing of a waste material and manufacturing to create a useful product.
REFUSE. All nonputrescible waste.
SELF-UNLOADING VEHICLE. Any vehicle which does not have to be unloaded manually.
SOLID WASTE. Any hazardous or nonhazardous garbage, refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, domestic sewage and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems and other material that is either discarded or is being accumulated, stored or treated prior to being discarded, or has served its original intended use and is generally discarded, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial and agricultural operations, and from community activities. The term does not include:
(1) Fecal waste from fowls and animals other than humans.
(2) Solid or dissolved material in:
(a) Domestic sewage and sludges generated by treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems which are designed to discharge effluents to the surface waters.
(b) Irrigation return flows.
(c) Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by treatment which are point sources subject to permits granted under Section 402 of the Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (Pub. L. 92-500) and permits granted under G.S. § 143-215.1 by the Environmental Management Commission. However, any sludges that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this chapter.
(3) Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under G.S. Chapter 143, Article 21A. However, any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this chapter.
(4) Any source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 USC 2011).
(5) Mining refuse covered by the North Carolina Mining Act, G.S. §§ 74-46 through 74-68 and regulated by the North Carolina Mining Commission (as defined under G.S. § 143B-290). However, any specific mining waste that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this chapter.
(6) Recovered material.
SOLID WASTE COLLECTOR. Any person who collects, transports refuse or solid waste for compensation, other than one who removes refuse or solid waste from his own premises. Persons who remove waste for more than 5 families or businesses are collectors even though the waste is collected from that person's own property.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SITE. A location at which solid wastes are disposed of by incineration, sanitary landfill, transfer, or other method approved of the Board.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DIVISION. Solid Waste Management Division of the Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources.
SOLID WASTE RECEPTACLE. Large container used for the temporary storage of solid waste and capable of being automatically emptied into collection vehicles.
TRANSFER STATION. A facility where waste is disposed of by individuals, institutions and businesses, and loaded for transportation to off site solid waste management facilities.
YARD WASTE. Waste consisting of leaves, limbs, grass trimmings, unpainted and untreated wood, pallets, and other vegetative material.
(Ord. passed 4-5-93; Am. Ord. passed 7-7-97)
Statutory reference:
For similar definitions concerning solid waste management and scrap tire disposal, see G.S. §§ 130A-290 and 130A-309.53