The following words and phrases used throughout this
article shall have meaning ascribed to them 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).
ACT 101
The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and
Waste Reduction Act of 1988 (SB 528, Act 1988-101, July 28, 1988).
COLLECTOR or WASTE HAULER
Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or public agency
which is engaged in the collection and/or transportation of municipal
waste.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including, but not limited to, stores, markets, offices,
restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
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, day-care centers, schools
and universities.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, and
similar material, but not including grass clippings.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or 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 in
the Solid Waste Management Act 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.
MUNICIPAL WASTE LANDFILL
Any facility that is designed, operated and maintained for
the disposal of municipal waste and permitted by the Pennsylvania
DEP for such purposes.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprises, municipal authority, municipality, state
institution and 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, penalty or imprisonment, 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 stations, composting facilities
and resources 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 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 operation of energy.
SCAVENGING
The unauthorized and uncontrolled removal of any material
stored or placed at a point for subsequent collection or from a solid
waste processing or disposal facility.
TRANSPORTATION
The off-site removal of any municipal waste at any time after
generation.