As used in this chapter, the singular includes the plural, and vice versa, and the masculine includes the feminine, and vice versa. Definitions not included in this section shall assume the meanings included in Part 1, 9 VAC 20-80, 9 VAC 20-101, and 9 VAC 20-130.
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings:
(1) “Approved facility” means a location that is permitted in accordance with Chapter 1080 of these Codified Ordinances to receive solid waste or recyclable material for storage, disposal, transfer, processing, treatment, recycling, or composting. An approved facility includes, but is not limited to, permitted transfer stations, materials recovery facilities, sanitary landfills, yard waste composting facilities, and vegetative waste management facilities.
(2) “Business” means a business, corporation, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, county, city, town, governmental body, or any other legal entity. The term “business” does not include single and multiple residential facilities.
(3) “Collection services” means the collection, removal, transportation, or disposal of solid waste for compensation.
(4) “Collector” means any person engaged in collecting, removing, transporting, or disposing of solid waste or recyclable material for compensation from two or more residential, commercial or industrial establishments in the County.
(5) “Commercial waste” means all solid waste generated by establishments engaged in business operations other than manufacturing or construction. Commercial waste includes, but is not limited to, solid waste resulting from the operation of stores, markets, office buildings, restaurants, and shopping centers.
(6) “Customer” means any person that provides compensation to a collector for collection services or recycling services.
(7) “Director of the Office of Solid Waste Management” or “Director” means the Director of the Office of Solid Waste Management of Loudoun County, or his or her authorized agent, responsible for the administration and enforcement of this chapter.
(8) “Disposal” means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, throwing or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment, be emitted into the air or be discharged into any waters.
(9) “Garbage” means readily putrescible discarded materials composed of animal, vegetable, or other organic matter.
(10) “Household” means attached and detached single and multiple residences, including but not limited to, houses, apartment buildings, condominiums, townhouses, mobile homes, bunkhouses, and crew quarters.
(11) “Household waste” means any waste material, including garbage, trash, and refuse, derived from households.
(12) “Industrial waste” means any solid waste generated by manufacturing or industrial process that is not a regulated hazardous waste. Industrial waste may include, but is not limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes: electrical power generation; fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; food and related products/byproducts; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing; leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing/foundries; organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete products; textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and water treatment. This term does not include mining waste or oil and gas waste.
(13) “Institutional waste” means all solid waste emanating from institutions such as, but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, and public or private schools.
(14) “Litter” means any solid waste that is discarded or scattered about outside of a lawful container or collection vehicle.
(15) “Mulch” means woody waste consisting of stumps, trees, limbs, branches, bark, leaves, and other clean wood waste which has undergone size reduction by grinding, shredding, or chipping.
(16) “Municipal solid waste” means that waste which is normally composed of residential, commercial, and institutional solid waste.
(17) “Nuisance” means an activity which unreasonably interferes with an individual's or the public's comfort, convenience or enjoyment such that it interferes with the rights of others by causing damage, annoyance or inconvenience, and as defined in Section 648.03(g) of these Codified Ordinances.
(18) “Office of Solid Waste Management” or “OSWM” means the Office of Solid Waste Management of Loudoun County.
(19) “Permit” means the official document signed by the Director which allows the operation of a collection vehicle(s) in Loudoun County for purposes of providing collection services or recycling services.
(20) “Person” means an individual or household. Households include single and multiple residential facilities that generate household waste.
(21) “Principal recyclable materials” means paper, metal (except automobile bodies), plastic, glass, yard waste, wood, and textiles. Principal recyclable materials do not include large diameter tree stumps (tree stumps larger than six inches in diameter).
(22) “Reclaimed material” means a material which is processed or reprocessed to recover a usable product or is regenerated to a usable form.
(23) “Recyclable material” means any material separated from the waste stream for utilization as a raw material in the manufacture of a new product. The term “recyclable material” includes both source separated material and mechanically separated material.
(24) “Recycled material” means a material that is derived from recycling.
(25) “Recycling” means the process of separating a given waste material from the waste stream and processing it so that it may be used again as a raw material for a product, which may or may not be similar to the original product. For the purposes of this chapter, recycling does not include processes that only involve size reduction.
(26) “Recycling drop-off center” means a lawful collection site for the acceptance by donation, redemption, or purchase of recyclable material from the public. Such a facility does not use power-driven processing equipment.
(27) “Recycling facility” means a facility which collects, processes, repackages, and markets previously separated recyclable material. The term “recycling facility” does not include solid waste transfer stations, materials recovery facilities, sanitary landfills, yard waste composting facilities, or vegetative waste management facilities.
(28) “Recycling services” means the collection of source-separated recyclable material and ensuring the delivery of the recyclable material to a recycling facility or other lawful facility for its ultimate disposition as a recycled material.
(29) “Refuse” means all solid waste products having the character of solids rather than liquids and which are composed wholly or partially of materials such as garbage, trash, rubbish, litter, residues from clean up of spills or contamination, or other discarded materials.
(30) “Residential waste” means any waste material, including garbage, trash, and refuse, derived from households. Households include single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds and day- use recreation areas.
(31) “Resource recovery” means the recovery of material or energy from solid waste.
(32) “Rubbish” means combustible or slowly putrescible discarded materials which include, but are not limited to trees, wood, leaves, trimmings from shrubs or trees, printed matter, plastic and paper products, grass, rags, and other combustible or slowly putrescible materials not included under the term “garbage.”
(33) “Scrap metal” means bits and pieces of metal parts such as bars, rods, wire, or metal pieces that may be combined together with bolts or soldering which are discarded materials and can be recycled.
(34) “Site” means all land and structures, other appurtenances and improvements thereon used for treating, storing, and disposing of solid waste. “Site” includes adjacent land within the facility boundary used for the utility systems, such as repair, storage, shipping, or processing areas, or other areas incident to the management of solid waste. Further, “site” includes all sites, whether they are planned and managed facilities or open dumps.
(35) “Solid waste” means any garbage, refuse, sludge, or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from household disposal, commercial and industrial operations, agricultural operations, or community activities. “Solid waste” does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, industrial discharges or special nuclear or by-product materials.
(36) “Solid waste management facility” or “SWMF” means a site used for the planned treating, recycling, storing and disposing of solid waste. A facility may consist of several treatment, storage or disposal units. Further, “solid waste management facility” or “SWMF” means a facility so located, designed and operated that it does not impose a present or potential hazard to human health or the environment, including the pollution of air, land, surface water or groundwater.
(37) “Source-separated” means materials separated from the waste stream, by the waste generator, specifically for use, reuse, or recycling.
(38) “Yard waste” means decomposable waste materials generated by yard and lawn care and includes leaves, grass trimmings, brush, wood chips, and shrub and tree trimmings. Yard waste shall not include roots or stumps that exceed six inches in diameter.
(Ord. 02-08. Passed 5-20-02.)