The following words and phrases as used in this chapter
shall have the meaning ascribed herein, unless the context clearly
indicates a different meaning:
ACT 97
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act of 1980 (P.L.
380, No. 97, July 7, 1980), 35 P.S. § 6018.101.
ACT 101
The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and
Waste Reduction Action (SB 528, Act 1988, No. 101, July 1988), 53
P.S. § 4000.101 et seq.
BULKY WASTE
Large items of solid waste, including but not limited to
appliances, furniture, large auto parts, trees, branches or stumps,
which may require special handling due to their size, shape, or weight.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including but not limited to stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE
Solid waste resulting from the construction or demolition
of buildings and other structures, including but not limited to wood,
plaster, metals, asphaltic substances, bricks, block and unsegregated
concrete. The term does not include the following if they are separate
from other waste and are used as clean fill:
(1)
Uncontaminated soil, rock, stone, gravel, unused
brick, block and concrete.
(2)
Waste from land clearing, grubbing and excavation,
including trees, brush, stumps and vegetative material.
DISPOSAL
The deposition, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or
placing of solid waste into or on the land or water in a manner that
the solid waste enters the environment, is emitted into the air or
is discharged to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
GARBAGE
Any solid waste derived from animal, grain, fruit, or vegetable
matter that is capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with
sufficient rapidity to cause such nuisances as odors or gases.
HAULER or PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Any person, firm, copartnership, association of corporation
who or which has been licensed by the municipality or its designated
representative to collect, transport, and dispose of refuse for a
fee as herein prescribed.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in manufacturing or processing,
including but not limited to factories, foundries, mills, processing
plants, refineries, mines and slaughterhouses.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in service, including but not limited
to hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools and universities.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste
and other material including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous material resulting from operation of residential, municipal,
commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities;
and any sludge not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous
waste under Act 97 from a municipal, commercial or institutional water
supply treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, or air pollution
control facility. The term does not include source-separated recyclable
materials.
MUNICIPALITY
Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
OCCUPIED DWELLING
A permanent building or fixed mobile home that is currently
being used on a regular or temporary basis for human habitation.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipal authority, federal government or
agency, state institution and agency, or any other legal entity which
is recognized by law as the subject or rights and duties. In any provisions
of this chapter prescribing a fine, imprisonment or penalty, or any
combination of the foregoing, the term "person" shall include the
officers and directors of any corporation or other legal entity having
officers and directors.
PROCESSING
Any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume
or bulk of municipal or residual waste or any technology used to convert
part or all of such waste materials for off-site reuse. Processing
facilities include, but are not limited to, transfer facilities, composting
facilities, and resource recovery facilities.
REFUSE
Solid waste materials which are discarded as useless.
RESIDUAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, other discarded material or other waste
including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials
resulting from industrial, mining and agriculture operations and any
sludge from an industrial, mining or agricultural water supply treatment
facility, wastewater treatment facility or air-pollution control facility,
provided that it is not hazardous. The term "residual waste" shall
not include coal refuse as defined in the Coal Refuse Disposal Control
Act (52 P.S. § 30.52 et seq.). Residual waste shall not
include treatment sludges from coal mine drainage treatment plants,
disposal of which is being carried on pursuant to and in compliance
with a valid permit issued pursuant to the Act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.
1987, No. 934) known as the Clean Streams Law (35 P.S. § 691.1
et seq.).
RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITY
A processing facility that provides for the extraction and
utilization of materials or energy from municipal waste that is generated
off site, including, but not limited to, a facility that mechanically
extracts materials from municipal waste, a combustion facility that
converts the organic fraction of municipal waste to usable energy,
and any chemical and biological process that converts municipal waste
into a fuel product.
RUBBISH
All nonputrescible municipal waste except garbage and other
decomposable matter. This category includes, but is not limited to,
ashes, bedding, cardboard, cans, crockery, glass, paper, wood and
yard cleanings.
SCAVENGING
The unauthorized and uncontrolled removal of material placed
for collection or from a solid waste processing or disposal facility.
SEWAGE TREATMENT RESIDUES
Any coarse screenings, grit and dewatered or air-dried sludges
from sewage treatment plants and pumpings from septic tanks or septage
which are a municipal waste and require proper disposal under Act
97.
SOLID WASTE
Any waste, including, but not limited to, municipal, residual
or hazardous wastes, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous material.
STORAGE
The containment of any waste on a temporary basis in such
a manner as not to constitute disposal of such waste. It shall be
presumed that the containment of any waste in excess of one year constitutes
disposal. The presumption can be overcome by clear and convincing
evidence to the contrary.
TRANSFER STATION
Any supplemental transportation facility used as an adjunct
to solid waste route collection vehicles.