For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGRICULTURAL WASTE. Waste materials produced from the raising of plants and animals, including animal manures, bedding plant stalk, hulls and vegetable matter.
ASBESTOS. Asbestiform varieties of chrysotile (serpentine), crocidolite (riebecktite), amosite (cummingtonite-grunerite), anthophyllite, tremolite and actinolite.
BOARD. Board of County Commissioners of Pasquotank County.
BULKY WASTE. Large items of solid waste such as household appliances, furniture, automobiles, large auto parts, trees, branches, stumps and other oversize wastes whose large size precludes or complicates their handling by normal solid waste collection, processing or disposal methods.
COLLECTION. The act of removing solid wastes from a point of generation to a central disposal site.
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid wastes generated by stores, restaurants, warehouses and other commercial activities.
CONSTRUCTION WASTE. Solid waste resulting solely from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition operations on pavement, buildings or other structures, but does not include inert debris, land clearing debris or yard debris.
DEMOLITION WASTE. Stumps, limbs, leaves, concrete, brick, untreated wood and uncontaminated earth.
FRIABLE. Any material that when dry can be broken, crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure, and includes previously nonfriable material after the material becomes damaged to the extent that when dry it can be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
INERT DEBRIS. Concrete, brick, concrete block, uncontaminated soil, gravel and rock, untreated and unpainted wood, used asphalt or used asphalt mixed with dirt, sand, gravel, rock and concrete.
HAZARDOUS WASTES. Wastes, or a combination of wastes 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 the 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.
HOUSEHOLD GARBAGE. All putrescible vegetable matter, and food wastes and food containers, animal offal and other garbage that is normally produced in residential dwellings, but excluding sewage.
IMPROVED PROPERTY.
(1) All real property within the county upon which is located a building fit for human use, occupation or habitation whether permanent or temporary and whether occupied or unoccupied.
(2) For purposes of this chapter, each unit of a multiple use building or lot of multiple use real property shall be deemed an IMPROVED PROPERTY.
INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid wastes generated by industrial processing and manufacturing.
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; and
(3) Surgical operating room pathological specimens and disposable fomites attendant thereto and similar disposable materials from outpatient areas and emergency rooms.
LAND CLEARING AND INERT DEBRIS LANDFILL. The county facility for the land disposal of land clears or waste, concrete brick, concrete block, uncontaminated soil, gravel and rock, untreated and unpainted wood used asphalt or used asphalt mixed with dirt, sand, gravel, rock and concrete and yard trash.
LAND CLEARING WASTE. Solid waste which is generated solely from land clearing, such as stumps, trees limbs, brush, grass and other naturally occurring vegetative matter.
LANDFILL. Sanitary, demolition, monofills, balefills and any other land areas used for the disposal of bulky, commercial, construction and demolition, hazardous, industrial, infectious, institutional, radioactive and residential solid waste.
NONFRIABLE. Any material that when dry cannot be broken, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure, and includes undamaged nonfriable material that when dry cannot be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, governmental unit or agency or other legal entity.
RADIOACTIVE WASTE. Any wastes that emit ionizing radiation spontaneously.
RECYCLABLE CORRUGATED CARDBOARD. Unwaxed paper boxes and thick layered brown paper, formed with grooves and ridges used in shipping or in which shipped goods are received.
RECYCLABLES. Any items being separated and collected at the recycling/convenience centers for the purpose of being recycled.
RECYCLING/CONVENIENCE CENTERS. A manned center which is operated for the purpose of accepting household waste and recyclables from the public.
SOLID WASTE. Non-hazardous garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial and agricultural operations, and from community activities. This term does not include:
(1) Fowl and animal fecal waste;
(2) Solid or dissolved material in:
(a) Domestic sewage and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary sewage disposal systems which have a design capacity of more than 3,000 gallons or which discharge effluent to the surface waters;
(b) Irrigation return flows; and
(c) Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental thereto and generated by the treatment thereof which are point sources subject to permits granted under § 402 of the Clean Water Act, as amended (P.L. 92-500), being 33 U.S.C. § 1342, and permits granted under G.S. § 143-215.1 by the Environmental Management Commission.
(3) Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under G.S. Ch. 143, Art. 21A;
(4) Any, radioactive material as defined by the North Carolina Radiation Protection Act, G.S. §§ 104E-1 through 104E-29; and
(5) Mining refuse covered by the State Mining Act, G.S. §§ 74-46 through 74-68, and regulated by the State Mining Commission.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SITE. A location at which solid wastes are disposed of by sanitary landfill or other approved method.
SOLID WASTE RECEPTACLE.
(1) A large metal container (also known as a dumpster) used for the temporary storage of solid wastes and capable of being automatically emptied into collection vehicles, containing no more than eight cubic yards, which shall be designated household garbage and trash; and
(2) Large trailer body container (also known as a roll-off container) being no smaller than 20 cubic yards and capable of being substantially larger which is designated for large items such as trees, limbs, washing machines, refrigerators and major household appliances.
TRANSFER STATION. The county facility at which solid waste is collected prior to transportation to another facility for final disposal.
YARD WASTE. Solid waste resin from yard maintenance such as brushes, grass, tree limbs and similar vegetative matter.
(Ord. passed 12-16-1991; Ord. 95-1, passed 1-9-1995; Ord. passed 7-21-1997; Ord. passed 9-22-1997)