The following words and phrases as used in this article shall have
the meanings ascribed herein unless the context indicates a different
meaning:
ACT or ACT 97
The Pennsylvania Municipal 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 July 1988.
AGRICULTURAL WASTE
Poultry and livestock manure, or residual materials in liquid
or solid form, generated in the production and marketing of poultry,
livestock, fur-bearing animals, and their products, provided that
such waste is not hazardous. The term includes the residual materials
generated in producing, harvesting, and marketing all agronomic, horticultural,
silvicultural, and agricultural crops or commodities grown on what
are usually recognized and accepted as farms, forests, or other agricultural
lands.
BULKY WASTE
Large items of municipal waste, including but not limited
to large auto parts, trees, branches, or stumps, requiring special
handling due to their size, shape, or weight.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE
All municipal and residual waste building materials, grubbing
waste, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair,
and demolition operations on houses, nonresidential buildings, and
other structures and pavements.
DEPARTMENT
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection(DEP).
DISPOSE or DISPOSAL
The incineration, deposition, injection, dumping, spilling,
leaking, or placing of municipal waste into or on the land or water
in a manner that the municipal waste or a constituent of the municipal
wastes enters the environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged
to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DOMESTIC WASTE or HOUSEHOLD WASTE
Municipal waste comprised of garbage and rubbish, which normally
originates in the residential private household or apartment house.
HAULER or PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Any person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation
who has been designated by the Town of Greenville or its designated
representative to collect, transport, and dispose of refuse for a
fee as herein prescribed.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
Any municipal waste or combination of municipal wastes, as
defined in the Act, which because of its quantity, concentration,
or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may cause or
significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase
in morbidity in either an individual or the total population; or pose
a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment
when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise
managed.
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, day-care centers, schools,
and universities.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any waste, including but not limited to municipal, residual,
yard waste, or hazardous wastes, including solid, liquid, semisolid,
or contained gaseous material. Garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom
or office waste, and other material, including solid, liquid, semisolid,
or contained gaseous materials resulting from the operation of residential,
municipal, nonresidential, 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, Nonresidential
or institutional water supply treatment plant, wastewater treatment
plant, or air pollution control facility.
MUNICIPALITY
The Town of Greenville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
NONRESIDENTIAL
Any developed parcel not fitting the definition of "residential"
as defined herein. Nonresidential shall include, but not be limited
to, attached single-family houses, multifamily houses, townhouses
and condominiums, boardinghouses, hotels and motels, churches, industrial
properties, Nonresidential properties, manufactured home or mobile
home parks sharing a common lot, Nonresidential and office buildings,
storage areas, parking lots and other impervious areas, parks, recreation
properties, public and private schools and universities, hospitals,
and convalescent centers, office buildings, government properties,
and mixed-use properties.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipal authority, federal government or
agency, state institution, 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 to reduce the volume or bulk of municipal
or residual waste or 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.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL
Materials will be determined from time to time by resolution
adopted by Council and may include but are not limited to items such
as plastic, glass, metal bottles, cans, jugs and jars, newsprint,
catalogs, phone books, magazines, cardboard, office paper, and junk
mail.
RESIDENTIAL
A developed parcel containing one structure which contains
one or more rooms with a bathroom and kitchen facilities designed
for occupancy by one family and shall include single-family houses,
single-family units, manufactured homes, and mobile homes located
on individual lots or parcels of lands. Developed parcels may be classified
as "residential" despite the presence of incidental structures associated
with residential uses, such as garages, carports, or small storage
buildings. "Residential" shall not include developed land containing:
structures used primarily for nonresidential purposes; manufactured
homes and mobile homes located within manufactured homes or mobile
home parks; or other multiple-unit residential properties such as
apartments, condominiums, and townhouses.
RESIDUAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, other discarded material, or other waste,
including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials
resulting from industrial mining and agricultural operations and any
sludge from an industrial, mining, or agricultural water supply treatment
facility, 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 in accordance
with the Clean Streams Law.
SCAVENGING
The unauthorized and uncontrolled removal of material placed
for collection or from a municipal waste processing or disposal facility.
SEWAGE TREATMENT RESIDUES
Any coarse screenings, grit and dewatered or air-dried sludge
from sewage treatment plants and pumpings from septic tanks or septage,
which are municipal waste and require proper disposal under Act 97.
STORAGE
The containment of any waste temporarily so as not to constitute
disposal of such waste. It shall be presumed that the containment
of any waste over one year constitutes disposal. This presumption
can be overcome by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.
TRANSFER STATION
Any supplemental transportation facility used as an adjunct
to municipal waste collection vehicles.
TRANSPORTATION
The off-site removal of any municipal waste at any time after
generation.
YARD WASTE
Noncomposted tree trimmings, leaves, branches, shrubs, grass
clippings, and other products or by-products of vegetative growth.