[Ord. No. 01-061 §§1—8, 5-30-2001]
As used in this Chapter, and unless the context clearly requires
a different meaning, references to one gender include references to
the other gender, singular references include the plural and plural
references include the singular, statements including the word "shall"
are mandatory and not directory. The following specific definitions
apply to this Chapter.
A subsurface water-bearing bed or stratum of sand, gravel
or bedrock which stores or transmits water in recoverable quantities
or is capable of yielding water to wells or springs.
The solid rock stratum underlying solid and unconsolidated
surface materials.
Non-putrescible solid waste consisting of waste materials
from dwelling units, commercial, industrial, institutional or agricultural
establishments which are either too large or too heavy to be safely
and conveniently loaded in waste transportation vehicles by waste
haulers with the equipment available therefor. "Bulky residential
waste" is bulky waste generated on residential premises other
than automobiles and construction and demolition materials.
Compacted waste in a landfill that is enclosed on all sides
by cover material.
Uncontaminated soil, rock, sand, gravel, concrete, asphalted
concrete, cinder blocks, brick, minimal amounts of wood and metal,
and inert solids as approved by rule or policy by the Missouri Department
of Natural Resources for fill, reclamation, or other beneficial use.
The biological decomposition of organic constituents under
controlled conditions.
A non-residential premises which collects and/or accepts
organic constituents from off-site for the purpose of biological decomposition
and shall be defined as a waste processing facility.
Waste materials generated from the demolition and construction
of residential, industrial or commercial structures.
A disposal area used for the disposal of demolition and construction
waste, untreated wood wastes, soil, rock, asphaltic concrete, and
other non-decomposable inert solids insoluble in water.
The St. Charles County Department of Community Health and
the Environment.
The Division Director of the Division of Environmental Services
of the St. Charles County Department of Community Health and the Environment,
and the deputies, assistants and employees of that Division designated
to perform functions on his behalf.
The Director of the St. Charles County Department of Community
Health and the Environment, and the deputies, assistants and employees
of that Department designated to perform functions on his behalf.
The Division of Environmental Services of the St. Charles
County Department of Community Health and the Environment.
To either:
Use a vehicle designed for the collection of waste from storage
at residential or non-residential premises to haul such waste, regardless
of the number of times the vehicle is so used, including such use
by municipalities; or
Use a vehicle to haul waste in the unincorporated part of St. Charles County more than five (5) times during any waste hauling vehicle licensing year. The expression includes municipalities which own or operate vehicles to provide waste hauling services within the unincorporated part of St. Charles County and who enter into intergovernmental cooperative agreements pursuant to Article XIX, Section 240.1930, but shall exempt residential property owners hauling their own waste.
With no modifying words appearing before it, used only in
Sections where a landfill, waste processing facility or transfer station
is being discussed, means any landfill, waste processing facility
or transfer station which is the subject of such Section.
An increase or intended increase of the operation or use
laterally, beyond the licensed perimeter previously licensed by the
Division Director.
A change in design, facility plan or operation within the
ground of previously licensed perimeter or conditional use permit
area. Modification would include an increase or change of final elevation
or overall depth of landfills or extension into areas previously permitted
by the Division Director, but not yet engineered.
The cover material placed over waste in a landfill which
is more substantial than a daily cover.
The area designated as the 100-year special flood hazard
and floodway on the Flood Boundary and Floodway Maps and Flood Insurance
Rate Maps approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Liquid that will drain freely by gravity from solid materials.
Any waste, or combination of wastes, as determined to be
hazardous by Sections 260.350 to 260.430, RSMo., as amended, and the
corresponding rules promulgated by the Missouri Department of Natural
Resources (MDNR).
Any part or component of human body origin generated by hospital
or medical clinic surgical or routine activities that is discarded
as waste in the course of operating practices including limbs or portions
thereof, organs or culture stock.
Special wastes generated as a result of commercial/industrial
processes or activities.
Shall include the following:
Isolation wastes: Wastes generated by patients
who have communicable diseases which are capable of being transmitted
to others via those wastes.
Cultures and stocks of etiologic agents: Included in this category are all cultures and stocks of infectious
organisms as well as culture dishes and devices used to transfer,
inoculate and mix cultures.
Blood and blood products: All discarded
blood and blood products generated by a medical facility including
serum, plasma and other components.
Pathological wastes: These wastes include
tissues, organs, body parts and body fluids that are removed during
surgery and autopsy. All such wastes shall be considered infectious
waste. Also included are animal carcasses, body parts and bedding
from animals contaminated with infectious agents capable of being
transmitted to a human host.
Sharps: This includes all sharps, including
hypodermic needles, syringes and scalpel blades. Sharps also include
broken glass or other sharp items that have come in contact with material
considered infectious by definition.
Surgery and autopsy wastes: Wastes contaminated
with bodily fluids, tissue, or pathogens which are generated by surgery,
dialysis and laboratory departments.
Contaminated laboratory wastes: All medical
laboratory wastes which have been contaminated with bodily fluids,
tissues, or pathogens.
In addition, the term "Infectious Waste" means waste in quantities and with characteristics as established by rule by the Division Director pursuant to the rule-making power granted in Section 240.1710.
An engineered waste disposal site in which waste is deposited
and managed in a manner protective of the environment.
Liquid that has percolated through waste and contains extracted,
dissolved, or suspended materials from it.
The plan for construction, operation and closure (as the
case may be) of a yard waste composting facility.
An individual office, facility or institution which generates
infectious waste in the course of conducting its primary business
or whose act or process first causes an infectious waste.
Infectious waste that has been rendered innocuous via a physical
treatment process established by the Missouri Department of Health,
the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the St. Charles County
Department of Community Health and the Environment.
A container which has a capacity of at least ten (10) cubic
yards and which is used for storing solid waste collected in the unincorporated
areas of St. Charles County and transporting that waste to the disposal
or transfer/processing point over public roadways.
Commercial, industrial, agricultural, institutional and recreational.
The same or geographically contiguous property which may
be divided by public or private right-of-way, provided the entrance
and exit between the properties is at a crossroads intersection and
access is by crossing, as opposed to going along the right-of-way.
Non-contiguous properties owned by the same person but connected by
a right-of-way which he/she controls and to which the public does
not have access is also considered on-site property. Situations which
do not meet this definition shall be deemed "off-site".
Individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
or municipality.
A container that resists piercing by a sharp object such
as a hypodermic needle. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a container
made of glass does not satisfy this definition.
Those materials which have been diverted or removed from
the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse or recycling, whether
or not they require subsequent separation and processing.
Materials removed from the general waste stream for the purpose
of resource recovery and includes at a minimum, glass bottles and
jars, aluminum beverage cans, newspaper, corrugated containers (cardboard),
office paper, miscellaneous paper fiber grades, plastics 1 (PETE,
soda bottles) and 2 (HDPE, milk jugs, detergent), and steel cans,
and may also include other materials for which resource recovery systems
or end-use markets have been identified.
The separation and reuse of source-separated materials which
otherwise might be disposed of as waste.
Any collection (not manufacturing) facility or system that
accepts source-separated materials for resale to markets for resource
recovery for example, aluminum cans and scraps, tin, copper, glass,
paper products, tires, plastics, bi-metal and steel containers, ferrous
and non-ferrous metals and from which offal from the material does
not exceed ten percent (10%) by volume.
Any facility where recovery of materials, which might otherwise
be disposed of as solid waste and which have not been separated at
the point of generation, takes place.
A solid waste disposal area which accepts residential and
non-residential waste for permanent management using detailed engineered
controls.
Semi-solid or liquid human excrement. Including liquid or
semi-solid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension
or solution and may include liquids containing chemicals in solution.
[Ord. No. 15-034 §1, 3-30-2015]
The accumulated semi-solid suspension of settled solids deposited
from wastewaters or other fluids in tanks or basins.
Unconsolidated geologic material above the bedrock.
All waste in a solid or semi-solid state generated by residential,
commercial, institutional and industrial sources, but does not include
hazardous waste.
[Ord. No. 15-034 §1, 3-30-2015]
That recovered material which has been diverted or removed
from the solid waste stream at the point the recovered materials and
the solid waste are generated. The term does not require that various
types of recovered materials be separated from each other.
Waste that is declared by the Division Director, pursuant
to his rule-making authority, or by the Missouri Department of Natural
Resources to be non-hazardous but requiring handling other than normally
used for municipal wastes, examples being sludges (bio-solids from
water and wastewater treatment processes), ash, contaminated soils
(generated from site remediation), and process residues.
A solid waste disposal area licensed for the disposal of
one (1) or more special wastes.
A site or facility which accepts solid waste for temporary
storage, or consolidation and further transfer to a waste disposal,
processing or storage facility. Transfer station includes, but is
not limited to, a site or facility where waste is transferred from:
a rail carrier, motor vehicle or water carrier to another carrier,
if the waste is removed from the container or vessel. A licensed residential
waste hauling operation which exclusively involves the transportation,
storage, and disposal of non-putrescible banned landfill items (i.e.,
white goods, tires, etc.) as the service it provides to its customers
shall be exempt from transfer station status provided the storage
of all collected material does not exceed thirty (30) days and does
not create a public health or aesthetic nuisance. In addition, the
transfer of waste directly from one waste hauling vehicle/container
to another waste hauling vehicle/container, in the regular operation
of providing waste collection service, shall be exempt from transfer
station status; providing, however, that all such vehicles and containers
are permitted by St. Charles County under the same company name or
its subsidiary.
An organism that is capable of transmitting a pathogen from
one organism to another.
Garbage, rubbish, refuse and other discarded materials, including
liquid, gaseous, solid, and semi-solid materials resulting from industrial,
commercial, institutional, agricultural, residential, and other domestic
activities, but does not include recovered materials that are managed
in such a manner so as to prevent a public health nuisance. For the
purpose of all provisions of this Code imposing duties with respect
to the generation, storage, collection or transportation of waste,
the term "waste" includes hazardous waste, infectious
waste, and special waste, unless the context clearly requires a contrary
instruction.
An incinerator, compost plant, transfer station or any facility
where solid wastes (excluding hazardous wastes) received from off-site
are salvaged, processed or treated, using methods other than landfilling.
A vehicle used to collect solid waste, special waste, sewage or sludge in the unincorporated areas of St. Charles County and to transport that waste on any highway, road or street, all as provided by Article IV of this Solid Waste Management Code of St. Charles County. A waste transportation vehicle shall not include asbestos, asbestos containing material, suspect asbestos containing material, demolition waste, infectious waste, or biohazard waste.
[Ord. No. 15-034 §1, 3-30-2015]
Household appliances such as refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers,
hot water heaters and other similar household devices not capable
of being directly disposed of in a sanitary landfill.
That portion of the sanitary landfill where wastes are discharged
and are spread and compacted prior to the placement of cover material.
Source-separated leaves, grass clippings, yard and garden
vegetation generated by residential activities and Christmas trees,
stumps, roots, shrubs with intact rootballs, logs, felled trees and
tree limbs regardless of size.
[Ord. No. 23-092, 10-10-2023]
A non-residential premises which collects and/or accepts
recovered yard by-product (and brush/tree waste if incorporated into
an approved facility plan) generated off-site for the purpose of controlled
biological decomposition.
