The following words and phrases, as used in this article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein, unless the context
clearly indicates a different meaning:
ACT 90
The Pennsylvania Waste Transportation Safety Act of 2002
(P.L. 596, No. 90, June 29, 2002).
ACT 97
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act of 1980 (P.L.
380, No. 97, July 7, 1980).
ACT 101
The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and
Waste Reduction Act of 1988 (Act 1988-101, July 28, 1988).
APPROVED DISPOSAL SITE
Waste disposal facilities, such as landfills or trash-to-steam
facilities, which are licensed by and operated in accordance with
the laws and regulations of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the
laws and regulations of the state in which the disposal site is located.
ASH
The residue resulting from the burning of wood, coal, coke
or other combustible material.
COLLECTOR or WASTE HAULER
Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or public agency
who is engaged in the collection and/or transportation of municipal
waste and/or source-separated recyclable materials.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in a nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including but not limited to stores, markets, offices, restaurants,
shopping centers and theaters.
COUNTY
The County of Bucks, Pennsylvania.
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 or a constituent of the solid waste enters the environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged to the waters of this commonwealth. Disposal facilities include but are not limited to municipal waste landfills and construction/demolition waste landfills as defined by Act 101, Act 97, and/or PADEP rules and regulations (25 Pa. Code Chapters
75 and
271).
GARBAGE
All animal and vegetable waste solids resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in manufacturing or production
activities, including but not limited to factories, foundries, mills,
processing plants, refineries, mines, and slaughterhouses.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment or facility engaged in services, including
but not limited to hospitals, nursing homes, schools and universities.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, and
similar materials, but not including grass clippings.
MUNICIPALITY
Any of the 54 minor civil divisions in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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 any source-separated recyclable
materials.
NONRESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
All properties used for industrial or commercial purposes
in which no persons reside, provided that multiple-dwelling residential
buildings or projects containing more than four dwelling units, for
the purposes of this article, shall be treated as nonresidential properties.
PADEP
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipality, municipal authority, federal
government or agency, state institution or agency, or any other legal
entity recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. In any
provisions of this article 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 materials for off-site reuse. Processing facilities
include but are not limited to transfer facilities, recycling facilities,
composting facilities, and resource-recovery facilities.
RECYCLING
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of
metals, glass, paper, leaf waste, plastics and other materials which
would otherwise be disposed of or processed as municipal waste or
the mechanized separation and treatment of municipal waste (other
than through combustion) and creation and recovery of reusable materials
other than a fuel for the generation of energy.
REFUSE
All solid waste, except body waste, and shall include but
not be limited to garbage, ashes and rubbish.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Properties used as dwellings, including buildings having
up to four dwelling units in one building, provided that, in the event
of multiple-family dwellings, each of said units will be treated as
a separate residential property as it relates to the collection of
refuse therefrom.
RUBBISH
Includes glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood or nonputrescible
solid wastes.
SCAVENGING
The unauthorized and uncontrolled removal of any material
stored or placed at a point for subsequent collection or from a processing
or disposal facility.
TRANSPORTATION
The off-site removal of any municipal waste at any time after
generation.