For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOARD. Harnett County Board of Commissioners.
BULKY WASTE. Large items of solid waste such as automobiles, discarded fuel tanks, large auto parts, or other large items which cannot be handled by normal disposal methods.
COLLECTION. The act of removing solid waste from a point of generation to a central storage point or to a disposal site, and from a central storage point to a disposal site.
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other non-manufacturing activities.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE. Waste building materials, packaging, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, land clearing debris (tree stumps, large limbs, and the like) and demolition operations on pavements, houses, commercial buildings, and other structures.
COUNTY. County of Harnett, North Carolina.
DISPOSAL. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste into or on any land so that such solid waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be omitted into the air or discharged into any water, including groundwaters.
DIVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES. Division of Health Services of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources.
GARBAGE. All putrescible solid wastes, including food wastes and food containers, animal and vegetable matter, animal offal and carcasses, and recognizable industrial by-products, but excluding sewage and human waste.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. Waste, or a combination of waste in a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semisolid form that may cause, or contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness, taking into account the toxicity of such waste, its persistence and degradability, its potential for accumulation or concentration in tissue, and other factors that may otherwise cause or contribute to adverse acute or chronic effects on the health of persons or other organisms.
INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE. Any solid waste generated by industries and manufacturing facilities.
INFECTIOUS WASTE.
(1) Equipment, instruments, utensils, and fomites of a disposable nature from the rooms of patients who are suspected to have or have been diagnosed as having a communicable disease and must, therefore, be isolated as required by public health agencies.
(2) Laboratory wastes, such as pathological specimens (e.g., all tissues, specimens of blood elements, excreta, and secretions from patients or laboratory animals) and disposable fomites (any substance that may harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms) attendant thereto.
(3) Surgical operating room pathologic specimens and disposable fomites attendant thereto, and similar disposable materials from outpatient areas and emergency rooms.
INSTITUTIONAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste generated by educational, healthcare, correctional, and other institutional facilities.
LICENSE. A written document from the solid waste enforcement officer granting permission for the collection, transportation, or disposal of solid waste.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, governmental unit, agency, organization, association, partnership, corporation, company, or other legal entity.
PUTRESCIBLE. Solid waste capable of being decomposed by micro-organisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisance from odors and gasses, such as kitchen waste, offal, and carcasses.
RADIOACTIVE WASTE. Any waste that emit ionizing radiation spontaneously.
REFUSE. Solid waste, excluding garbage and ashes, collected from residences, commercial establishments, and institutions.
SANITARY LANDFILL. Facility for the final disposal of solid waste.
SCRAP TIRE. A tire that is no longer suitable for its original, intended purpose because of wear, damage, or defect.
SCRAP TIRE COLLECTION SITE. A site used for the storage of scrap tires.
SLUDGE. Any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, institutional, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or any other waste having similar characteristics and effects.
SLURRY. A waste with a high liquid content not easily de-watered.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage, refuse, rubbish, pebbles, trash, and other discarded solid materials, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not include fowl or animal fecal waste, solids or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial wastewater effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants.
SOLID WASTE COLLECTOR. Any person who collects, transports, or disposes of solid waste not including private citizens disposing of their own personal solid waste.
SOLID WASTE COMPACTION MINI-STATION. Any site designated, operated, and maintained by the county for the purpose of collecting and compacting for transfer household wastes from private citizens.
SOLID WASTE DIRECTOR. The enforcement officer of this chapter or his or her designated agent as appointed by the Board of Commissioners.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SITE. Any place at which solid waste is disposed of by sanitary landfill or other authorized methods.
SOLID WASTE RECEPTACLE. Large metal container used for the temporary storage of solid waste and capable of being automatically emptied into collection vehicles.
SPECIAL WASTE. Solid waste that can require special handling and management including white goods, whole tires, used oil, asbestos material, lead-acid batteries, and medical waste.
WHITE GOODS. Includes inoperative and discarded refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, and other similar domestic and commercial large appliances.
(Ord. passed 7-23-1990)