<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 20-3. - Definitions.</div>
<div class="chunk-content">
            <p class="p0">
               The following definitions apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Beneficial fill</span> means fill material consisting only of inert debris strictly limited to concrete,
               brick, concrete block, uncontaminated soil, rock, and gravel to be used in accordance
               with <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH20SOWA_S20-10BEFI" class="section-link" data-product-id="12650">section 20-10</a> of this chapter.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Board:</span> Durham County Board of Commissioners.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Bulky waste</span> means large items of solid waste such as furniture, large 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.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Collection</span> means the act of removing solid waste (or materials that have been separated for
               the purpose of recycling) to a transfer station, processing facility, or disposal
               facility.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Commercial solid waste</span> means all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses,
               and other non-manufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial waste.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Construction and demolition waste</span> means solid waste resulting solely from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition
               operations on buildings, or other structures, but does not include inert debris, land-clearing
               debris, yard debris or used asphalt mixed with dirt, sand, gravel, rock, concrete
               or similar nonhazardous material.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Department</span> means North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Director of general services</span> means the designated county official to manage, supervise, and enforce the ordinance
               for the management of solid waste in Durham County.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Garbage</span> means all putrescible waste, including animal offal and carcasses, and recognizable
               industrial by-products, but excluding sewage and human waste.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Hazardous waste</span> means solid waste, or a combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity,
               concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:
               
               <p class="incr1">
                  (1)
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content2">
                  Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious
                  irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
                  </p>
               		
               
               <p class="incr1">
                  (2)
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content2">
                  Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment
                  when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed.
                  </p>
               		
               
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Industrial solid waste</span> means solid waste generated by industrial processes and manufacturing, but excluding
               hazardous waste.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Inert debris</span> means solid waste that consists solely of material that is virtually inert and that
               is likely to retain its physical and chemical structure under expected conditions
               of disposal.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Institutional solid waste</span> means solid waste generated by educational, health care, correctional, and institutional
               facilities, but excluding hazardous waste.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Land-clearing debris</span> means solid waste that is generated solely from land-clearing activities.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Litter</span> means litter means any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, can, bottle, box, container,
               wrapper, paper, paper product, tire, appliance, mechanical equipment or part, building
               or construction material, tool, machinery, wood, motor vehicle or motor vehicle part,
               vessel, aircraft, farm machinery or equipment, sludge from a waste treatment facility,
               water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, dead animal, or discarded
               material in any form resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural,
               or governmental operations.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Medical waste</span> means any solid waste that is generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization
               of human beings or animals, in research pertaining thereto, or in the production or
               testing of biologicals, but does not include any hazardous waste, radioactive waste,
               household waste, or those substances excluded from the definition of "solid waste"
               in this chapter.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Old corrugated cardboard</span> means a flat two-dimensional paperboard with a corrugated paperboard center.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Pathological waste</span> means human tissues, organs and body parts, and the carcasses and body parts of any
               animals that were known to have been exposed to pathogens that are potentially dangerous
               to humans during research, were used in the production of biologicals or in vivo testing
               of pharmaceuticals, or that died with a known or suspected disease transmissible to
               humans.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Person</span> means any individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local
               government, state agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Processing</span> means any technique designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character
               or composition of any solid waste so as to render it safe for transport, amenable
               to recovery, storage or recycling, safe for disposal; or reduced in volume or concentration.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Putrescible</span> means solid waste capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity
               as to cause nuisances from odors and gases, such as kitchen waste, offal, and animal
               carcasses.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Radioactive waste</span> means waste containing any material, whether solid, liquid, or gas, that emits ionizing
               radiation spontaneously.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Recycling</span> means the process by which solid waste or recovered materials are collected, separated,
               or processed, and reused or returned to use in the form of raw material or products.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Refuse</span> means all nonputrescible waste.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Regulated medical waste</span> means blood and body fluids in individual containers in volumes greater than 20 ml.,
               microbiological waste, and pathological waste that has not been treated pursuant to
               the Durham City Code, Durham County Code, or rules promulgated by the department.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Residential convenience center</span> means a center for temporary disposal of residential waste and recyclable materials
               prior to the transportation to a transfer station to be processed for final disposal.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Resource recovery</span> means the process of retaining material or energy resources from discarded solid
               waste that no longer has any useful life in its present form and preparing the solid
               waste for recycling.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Salvageable materials</span> means any materials deposited as refuse but retaining enough of the original qualities
               to be considered useful.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Scavenging</span> means collecting or removing refuse from the solid waste receptacles located at the
               residential convenience or recycling centers.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Scrap tire</span> means a tire that is no longer suitable for its original, intended purposes because
               of wear, damage, or defect.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Septage</span> means solid waste that is a fluid mixture of untreated and partially treated sewage
               solids, liquids, and sludge of human or domestic origin that is removed from a septic
               tank system, campers, trailers, portal toilets, etc.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Sharps</span> means needles, syringes, and scalpel blades.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Sludge</span> means 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.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Solid waste</span> means 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 material resulting from industrial, institutional,
               commercial, residential, agricultural operations, and from community activities. The
               term does not include:
               
               <p class="incr1">
                  (1)
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content2">
                  Fecal waste from fowls and animals other than humans;
                  </p>
               		
               
               <p class="incr1">
                  (2)
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content2">
                  Solid or dissolved materials in:
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="incr2">
                  a.
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content3">
                  Domestic sewage and sludges generated by treatment thereto in sanitary sewage collection,
                  treatment, and disposal systems that are designed to discharge effluents to the surface
                  water;
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="incr2">
                  b.
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content3">
                  Irrigation return flows; and
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="incr2">
                  c.
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content3">
                  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 (P.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 purpose of this
                  definition;
                  </p>
               		
               
               <p class="incr1">
                  (3)
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content2">
                  Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under G.S. Ch. 143, Art. 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 purpose of this definition;
                  </p>
               		
               
               <p class="incr1">
                  (4)
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content2">
                  Any source, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy
                  Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2011);
                  </p>
               		
               
               <p class="incr1">
                  (5)
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content2">
                  Mining refuse covered by the North Carolina Mining Commission (as defined under G.S.
                  143B-290). However, any specific mining waste that meets the criteria for hazardous
                  waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purpose of this definition.
                  </p>
               		
               
               <p class="incr1">
                  (6)
                  </p>
               		
               <p class="content2">
                  Recovered materials.
                  </p>
               		
               
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Solid waste collector</span> means any person who collects or transports solid waste.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Solid waste disposal site:</span> means a location at which solid waste is disposed of by incineration, sanitary landfill,
               or other approved methods.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Solid waste management facility</span> means any publicly owned or privately owned solid waste management facility permitted
               by the department that receives solid waste for processing, treatment, or disposal.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Solid waste receptacle</span> means container used for the temporary storage of solid waste while awaiting collection
               such as dumpsters, rollout carts and other containers in various sizes.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Source separation</span> means setting aside recycling materials at their point of generation by the generator.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Tire</span> means a continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor
               vehicle as defined in G.S. 130A-309.53(7).
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Transfer station (facility)</span> means a permanent structure with mechanical equipment used for the collection or
               compaction of solid waste prior to the transportation of solid waste for final disposal.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Used oil</span> means any oil that has been refined from crude oil or synthetic oil and, as a result
               of use, storage, or handling, has become unsuitable for its original purpose.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">White goods</span> means inoperative and discarded refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, heaters, freezers,
               and other similar domestic and commercial large appliances.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Yard trimmings (yard trash)</span> means solid waste consisting solely of vegetative matter resulting from landscaping
               and yard maintenance such as brush, grass, tree limbs, and similar vegetative matter.
               </p>
            <p class="historynote0">
               (Ord. of 12-13-99, Â§ 1)
               </p></div>