The following words and phrases, as used in this article, 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).
ACT 101
The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and
Waste Reduction Act (SB528, Act 1988-201, July 1988).
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 separated
from other waste and are used as clean fill:
(1)
Uncontaminated soil, rock, stone, gravel, unused brick and block
and concrete.
(2)
Waste from land clearing, grubbing and excavation, including
trees, brush, stumps and vegetative materials.
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 nuisance as odors, gases or vectors.
HAULER or PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Any person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation
who has been licensed by the Township 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.
MUNICIPALITY
The Township of Robinson, Allegheny 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, Township,
commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities;
and any sludge not meeting the definition of residential 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.
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 or agency, or any other legal entity which
is 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 residential 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.
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
mechanical separation and treatment of municipal waste (other than
through combustion) and creation and recovery of reusable materials
other than as fuel for the operation of energy.
RECYCLING FACILITY
A facility employing a technology that is a process that
separates or classifies municipal waste and creates or recovers reusable
materials that can be sold to or reused by a manufacturer as a substitute
or a supplement to virgin raw materials. The term "recycling facility"
shall not mean transfer stations or landfills for solid waste nor
composting facilities or resource-recovery facilities.
REFUSE
All solid waste materials which are discharged as useless.
RESIDUAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse other discharged material or other waste,
including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials,
resulting from industrial, mining or agricultural water supply treatment,
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. 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 11, 1937 (P.L. 1987, No. 394) known as the Clean
Streams Law.
RESOURCE-RECOVERY FACILITY
A processing facility that provides for the extraction and
utilization of materials or energy from Township waste that is generated
off site, including, but not limited to, a facility that mechanically
extracts materials from Township waste, a combustion facility that
converts the organic fraction of Township waste to usable energy,
and any chemical and biological process that converts Township waste
into a fuel product.
RUBBISH
All nonputrescible Township 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 solid 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.