For purposes of this chapter and for rules and regulations adopted
by the Town Council, the following terms have the following meanings
unless the context indicates otherwise:
ACCEPTABLE WASTE
All those types defined in this section, including all ordinary
household, municipal, institutional, commercial and industrial wastes
with the exception of unacceptable materials as defined in this section.
AGENCY
The Maine Waste Management Agency.
BOARD
The Board of Environmental Protection.
BULKY MATERIAL
An item occupying a space of one cubic yard or more and includes,
but is not limited to, motor vehicles or portions thereof, trailers,
floats, boats, tanks of 200 gallons or more, building sections, commercial
equipment, camper tops, etc.
COLLECTION FACILITY
The building or area designated by the Council in which acceptable
waste is deposited and temporarily stored for transshipment for disposal.
COMMERCIAL HAULER
Any person engaged in handling and hauling solid waste, with
or without direct compensation or as a tenant service provided by
an owner or facility management, to five or more residents or businesses.
COMPOST MATERIAL
Leaves, grass clippings, herbaceous plants, separated food
waste, and sawdust.
DISPOSAL
The discharge, deposit, dumping or placing of any solid waste
into or on any land.
DISPOSAL FACILITY
The location as operated by the agency identified in a contract
between the Town and a selected provider.
FERROUS METALS
Any iron-containing commodity categorized as No. 1 and No.
2 steel, cast iron, and light iron/white goods.
FREEBIE
Any item, clean and in good repair, that may be accepted
at the "freebie barn" for disposal by no-cost transfer to any interested
resident.
GARBAGE
All putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
GOOD NEIGHBOR
A person with a valid solid waste facility decal who may
transport acceptable waste to the solid waste facility for their own
disposal and from no more than three other locations within Town.
HANDLE
To store, transfer, collect, separate, salvage, process,
reduce, recover, incinerate, treat or dispose.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
A waste substance or material, in any physical state, designated
as hazardous by the Board under 38 M.R.S. § 1319-O, and
contained in Section 3 of DEP 06-96, Chapter 850. It does not include
waste resulting from normal household or agricultural activities.
The fact that a hazardous waste or a part or a constituent may have
value or other use or may be sold or exchanged does not exclude it
from this definition. Such waste is that with inherent properties
that make it dangerous to manage by ordinary means, including but
not limited to chemicals, explosives, pathological wastes, radioactive
wastes, toxic wastes and other wastes defined as hazardous by 38 M.R.S.
§ 1301 et seq., the State of Maine or the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, or other federal, state or local
laws, regulations, orders or other actions promulgated or taken with
respect thereto.
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE
Any hazardous waste material excluded from identification
as a hazardous waste by Maine Solid Waste Management Rules Chapter
850, Section 3.A(4)(vii), including household waste that has been
collected, transported, stored, treated, disposed, recovered (e.g.,
refuse-derived fuel) or reused because it is generated by households.
HOUSEHOLD WASTE
Any waste material including rubbish, garbage and trash derived
from households (including single and multiple residences, hotels
and motels, bunkhouses, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas.)
LANDFILL WASTES
That portion of the waste stream that is not presently recovered
and includes, but is not limited to, plaster, insulation, plastic
items, vinyl siding, furniture, toys, porcelain plumbing fixtures,
lobster traps, fish nets, linoleum, rugs, rubber hose, vines, thorn
bushes, etc.
MAINE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT RULES
Chapters 400 through 419, inclusive, that have been adopted
by the Board of Environmental Protection and are in effect pursuant
to the requirements of the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, 5 M.R.S.
§ 8051 et seq.
MANDATORY RECYCLING
The requirement that person(s) must separate recyclables
from their trash as defined in this section.
MANUFACTURED WOOD WASTES
Man-made wood products that were milled or composted from
a wood base and are normally manufactured objects, demolition or construction
waste.
NONFERROUS METAL
Any metals devoid of iron content and generally categorized
as copper, brass, aluminum or lead.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other
public ways, and any and all public parks, beaches, squares, spaces,
grounds and buildings.
RECOVERABLE WASTES
The recovery of, or potential for future recovery of, materials
or substances that have useful physical or chemical properties and
can be reclaimed for reuse or recycled for the same or other purposes
and includes, and is limited to, landfill wastes, compost materials,
lead acid batteries, ferrous metals, nonferrous metals, tires, waste
oil, manufactured wood wastes and natural wood waste, and inert fill.
RECOVERY FACILITY
Those areas of the solid waste facility apportioned to spaces
used for the separation and temporary storage of resource-recovery,
reuse and landfill disposal materials.
RECYCLABLES
Manufactured materials or residues that may be reused or
reprocessed into similar or different use.
RECYCLING
The separating, collecting and/or reprocessing of manufactured
materials or residues for reuse either in the same form or as part
of a different product.
RESOURCE RECOVERY
The recovery of materials or substances that still have useful
physical or chemical properties after serving a specific purpose and
can be reused or recycled for the same or other purposes.
REUSE MATERIALS
Items with potential lifecycle remaining, including those
that may require minor repair, cleaning etc., that facility attendants
may allow to be set aside in a designated reuse set-aside section,
with appropriate fee paid to the resource-recovery facility, for removal
and possession by any interested resident.
RUBBISH
Domestic or commercial solid wastes other than trash as defined
in this section that is normally not generated on a day-to-day basis
and may be in a mixed condition prior to recovery or handling and
includes, and is limited to, landfill wastes, compost materials, lead
acid batteries, ferrous metals, nonferrous metals, tires, waste oil,
manufactured wood wastes and natural wood wastes.
SOLID WASTE FACILITY
The coordinated facility designed to handle acceptable solid
waste with segregated subfacilities for the transfer, recycling, resource
recovery or landfill of materials, as appropriate, located on MacKenzie
Lane.
SOLID WASTES
Any acceptable discarded or unwanted solid organic or inorganic
material with insufficient liquid content (excepting waste oil) to
be free-flowing and consists of garbage, trash, rubbish; freebie,
recyclable, reuse or recoverable materials; and landfill or universal
waste, but does not include unacceptable wastes as defined in this
section.
SPECIAL WASTE
Any solid waste generated by sources other than household
and typical commercial establishments that exists in such an unusual
quantity or in such a chemical or physical state, or any combination
thereof, that may disrupt or impair effective waste management or
threaten the public health, human safety or the environment and requires
special handling, transportation and disposal procedures. Special
waste includes, but is not limited to:
(2)
Industrial and industrial process waste;
(3)
Sludge and dewatered septage;
(4)
Debris from nonhazardous chemical spills and cleanup of those
spills;
(5)
Contaminated soils and dredge materials;
(6)
Asbestos and asbestos-containing waste;
(7)
Sand-blast grit and nonliquid paint waste;
(9)
Spent filter media residue; and
TRASH
That portion of domestic and commercial solid waste that
is generated on a day-to-day basis and includes, but is not limited
to, garbage; paper products, bags, magazines, cartons, newspaper,
cardboard; cloth; ceramics, dishes, cups, ovenware; glass, bottles,
light bulbs, window panes; aluminum cans, foils; pans; tin cans; plastic
items, containers, jugs; and other similar materials.
UNACCEPTABLE MATERIALS
By their physical or chemical properties, any solid, semisolid,
liquid or gaseous organic or inorganic material that exists in a toxic,
hazardous or physical state that may create a danger or nuisance to
the public health, safety and welfare and/or cannot be properly disposed
of, handled or processed at the solid waste facility and include,
but are not limited to:
(1)
Special waste, bulky materials or wet waste, as defined in this
section;
(2)
Hazardous waste (excepting waste oil and lead-acid batteries);
(3)
Stumps or logs greater than 12 inches in diameter;
(4)
Dead animals or portions thereof or other pathological wastes;
(5)
Demolition or construction debris from building and roadway
projects or locations;
(7)
Abandoned or junk vehicles;
(8)
Water treatment residues;
(10)
Recyclables and/or recoverable wastes mixed in with solid waste;
and
(11)
Any waste as deemed unacceptable by a facility attendant under
the terms of an agreement for waste disposal between the Town and
its contracted service provider.
UNIVERSAL WASTE
Any waste listed in Section 3.A(13)(b) of Chapter 850, the
Maine Hazardous Waste Management Rules, including but not limited
to cathode ray tubes; mercury-containing lamps; mercury-containing
thermostats; and totally enclosed, nonleaking polychlorinated biphenyl
(PCB) ballasts.
WASTE
Any of the categories of material to be disposed of as defined
in this section.
WASTE OIL
A petroleum or synthetic-based oil which, through use or
handling, has become unsuitable for its original purpose due to the
presence of impurities or loss of original properties.
WET WASTE
Water or snow that has percolated through and mixed with
trash, causing a waste leachate that adds weight to the trash and
can contaminate the solid waste facility equipment and grounds.