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. |
CLEAN WOOD: | Wood that has not been treated, coated, or glued (plywood, oriented strand board, etc.), including yard waste. |
COMMERCIAL OR COMMERCIAL GENERATOR: | An entity that is not a residential source generator. |
COMPOSTING: | The controlled biological decomposition and management of selected solid waste to produce an innocuous, humus-like material, which can be used as a soil conditioner. |
COMPOSTABLE MATERIAL: | Any material that is primarily organic and can be decomposed through biological activity. Compostable plastics or lined papers must meet ASTM D6400 and ASTM D6868, respectively, as certified by the Biodegradable Product Institute or other similar independent certification bodies. |
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS: | Waste building materials, packaging and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, and repair. |
DESIGNATED LIST OF CONTAMINANTS: | A list of contaminants approved by the Dakota County Board of Commissioners and published on the Dakota County Website. |
DESIGNATED LIST OF ORGANICS: | A list of organic material types suitable for commercial composting approved by the Dakota County Board of Commissioners and published on the Dakota County website. |
DESIGNATED LIST OF RECYCLABLES: | A list of recyclable materials types approved by the Dakota County Board of Commissioners and published on the Dakota County website that represents the minimum haulers must accept and generators must recycle. Generators, facilities and haulers will have six months to implement any changes after it is published. |
DURABLE COMPOSTABLE BAG: | A bag used to co-collect organics with mixed municipal solid waste for the purposes of separating the organics for composting or anaerobic digestion. The durable compostable bags must meet ASTM standards D6400 or D6868 and be sufficiently durable to contain the organics through the collection and separation process. |
ENCLOSURE: | The required area for storage of waste containers between the times of scheduled collection. This area must conform to the requirements of subsection 5-1-3(A)(3) of this chapter. |
FINAL DISPOSAL: | Discharge, deposit, injection, uncontrolled dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or any constituent thereof that may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. |
GARBAGE: | Discarded material resulting from the handling, processing, storage, preparation, serving and consumption of food. |
GENERATE: | The act or process of producing solid waste, including the production or aggregation of waste occurring at an intermediate disposal facility. |
GENERATOR: | Any person whose actions or process(es) produce solid waste. |
HAULER: | Any person, other than an individual resident hauling his or her own household waste, who collects or transports any solid waste. |
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. |
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: | All solid waste generated from an industrial or manufacturing process, and solid waste generated from non-manufacturing activities such as service and commercial establishments and chemical and debris contaminated soil from spills; property clean up, and development activities. Industrial waste does not include office materials, restaurant and food preparation waste, discarded machinery, demolition waste, or household waste. |
INFECTIOUS WASTE: | Solid waste that has the meaning given to it in Minnesota Statutes, Section 116.76. Infectious waste includes laboratory waste, blood, regulated body fluids, sharps, and research animal wastes that have not been decontaminated. |
LARGE EVENT VENUE WITH ORGANICS: | A public gathering of at least 300 people that generates at least one ton of municipal solid waste or contracts for eight cubic yards or more per location and generates organics in the back-of-house. Examples include but are not limited to: concerts, fairs, festivals, community events, athletic tournaments, and parades. |
LARGE COMMERCIAL ORGANICS GENERATOR: | The following commercial generator classifications that generate one ton or more of municipal solid waste per week or contract for eight cubic yards or more per week per location, and generates organics in the back-of-house: restaurants; grocery stores; food wholesalers, distributors and manufacturers; hotels; hospitals; sports venues; event centers; caterers; nursing and residential care facilities; office buildings with dining services; farmers markets; food shelves and food banks; schools, colleges, and universities with dining services; shopping centers; airports; golf clubs and country clubs; and public/rental kitchens or shared-use commercial kitchens; and other businesses identified by Dakota County as a large commercial organics generator. |
MIXED MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE, MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE, or TRASH: | 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. |
MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL BUILDING: | Any building with four or more residential units. |
MUNICIPALITY: | Any incorporated city or township within the boundaries of Dakota County, Minnesota, or a combination thereof that are included in an agreement for purposes of solid waste management. |
OPERATOR: | The person(s) responsible for managing the day-to-day physical handling of solid waste at a particular site or facility. |
ORGANIC MATERIAL or ORGANICS: | Food waste and the designated list of organics published on the Dakota County Website. |
PERSON: | Any human being, any municipality or other governmental or political subdivision, or other public agency, any public or private corporation, any partnership, firm, association, or other organization, any receiver, trustee, assignee, agent, or other legal representative of any of the foregoing, or any other legal entity. |
PROCESSING: | When referring to solid waste, means the treatment of solid waste after collection and before final disposal, and includes all activities after the time the waste is delivered to a processing facility. Processing includes, but is not limited to: storage; reduction; containment; separation; exchange; resource recovery; physical, chemical, or biological modification; and subsequent transfer from one solid waste facility to another. The storage of solid waste, in and of itself, does not constitute the treatment of waste necessary to meet this definition. |
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS OR RECYCLABLES: | 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, and batteries. Refuse derived fuel or other material that is destroyed by incineration is not a recyclable material. |
RECYCLING: | The process of collecting and preparing recyclable materials and reusing the materials in their original form or using them in manufacturing processes that do not cause the destruction of recyclable material in a manner that precludes further use. |
REFUSE: | Something rejected or discarded as worthless or useless. |
RESIDENTIAL or RESIDENTIAL SOURCE: | Any source from a residential building. |
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING: | A single family home or a building with residential units. |
RESIDENTIAL RECYCLING: | A program targeted for collection of recyclable materials from a residential building. |
RESIDENTIAL HAULER: | Any waste hauler making regularly scheduled collections of solid waste or recyclables from single- and multi-family residences. |
RESOURCE RECOVERY: | The reclamation for sale, use, or reuse of materials, substances, energy, or other products contained within or derived from waste, including, but not limited to energy recovery, processing, and composting facilities. |
SINGLE SORT RECYCLING: | A system of collecting recyclable materials from the same container without requiring the materials to be sorted or separated. |
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. |
SOLID WASTE ABATEMENT OR SOLID WASTE ABATEMENT PROGRAM: | A program for reducing, reusing, and recycling solid waste. |
SOLID WASTE ABATEMENT MESSAGING: | The standardized solid waste abatement education messaging developed by Dakota County and published on the Dakota County Website. |
SOURCE SEPARATION: | The process whereby generators separate, from mixed municipal solid waste, materials that will be reused, recycled, used as substitutes for raw material in a manufacturing process, or converted into a usable soil amendment. |
STREET SWEEPINGS: | Materials removed from streets, sidewalks, parking lots, and roadways during routine cleaning by a sweeping operation consisting of sand, sealcoat, tree waste and debris. Street sweepings do not include any material originating from an industrial spill or contaminated area. |
WASTE CONTAINER: | Any container designed and used to contain or store solid waste and recyclables. |
YARD WASTE: | Garden wastes, leaves, lawn cuttings, weeds, shrub and tree waste, and prunings generated at residential, commercial, or public properties. (Ord. XVI.59, 12-2-2008; amd. Ord. 2021-02, 1-5-2021) |