The following words
and phrases when used in this Part shall have the meanings given to
them in this section unless the context indicates otherwise:
ABATEMENT
The restoration, reclamation, recovery, etc., of a natural
resource adversely affected by the activity of a person.
AVERAGE DAILY VOLUME
The mean daily volume received at a facility taking into
account weather, seasonable variations, scheduled community cleanup
days and other factors.
COMMONWEALTH AGENCY
The commonwealth and its departments, boards, commissions,
and agencies, commonwealth owned universities, and the State Public
School Building Authority, the State Highway and Bridge Authority,
and any other authority now in existence or hereafter created or organized
by the commonwealth.
DEGRADABLE PLASTIC BEVERAGE CARRIER
Plastic beverage carriers that degrade by biological processes,
photodegradation, chemodegradation or degradation by other natural
processes. The degradation process does not produce or result in a
residue or by-product considered to be hazardous waste.
DEPARTMENT
The Department of Environmental Protection of the commonwealth
and its authorized representatives.
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 or a constituent of the solid waste enters the environment,
is emitted into the air or is discharged to the waters of this commonwealth.
FEASIBILITY STUDY
A study which analyzes a specific municipal waste processing
or disposal system to assess the likelihood that the system can be
successfully implemented including, but not limited to, an analysis
of the prospective market, the projected costs and revenues of the
system, the municipal waste-stream that the system will rely upon
and various options available to implement the system.
HOST MUNICIPALITY
The municipality other than the county within which a municipal
waste landfill or resource recovery facility is located or is proposed
to be located.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves, garden residue, shrubbery and tree trimmings, and
similar material, but not including grass clippings.
LOCAL PUBLIC AGENCY
(1)
Counties, cities, boroughs, towns, townships, school districts,
and any other authority now in existence or hereafter created or organized
by the commonwealth.
(2)
All municipal or school or other authorities new in existence
or hereafter created or organized by any county, city, borough, township
or school district or any combination thereof.
(3)
Any and all other public bodies, authorities, councils of governments,
officers, agencies or instruments of the foregoing, whether exercising
a governmental or proprietary function.
MANAGEMENT
The entire process, or any part thereof, of storage, collection,
transportation, processing, treatment and disposal of solid wastes
by any person engaging in such process.
MUNICIPAL RECYCLING PROGRAM
A source separation and collection program for recycling
the Township of Ross's waste or source separated recyclable materials,
or a program for designated drop-off points or collection centers
for recycling the Township of Ross waste or source-separated recyclable
materials, that is operated by or on behalf of the Township of Ross.
The term includes any source separation and collection program for
composting yard waste that is operated by or on behalf of the Township
of Ross. The term shall not include any program for recycling construction/demolition
waste or sludge from sewage treatment plants or water supply treatment
plants.
MUNICIPAL WASTES
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste
and 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, 35 P.S. § 6018.101
et seq., from a municipal, commercial, or institutional water supply
treatment plant, waste 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 or maintained for
the disposal of municipal waste, whether or not such facility possesses
a permit from the Department under the Solid Waste Management Act,
35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq. The term does not include any
facility that is used exclusively for disposal of construction/demolition
waste or sludge from sewage treatment plants or water supply treatment
plants.
MUNICIPALITY
The Township of Ross, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
OPERATOR
A person engaged in solid waste processing or disposal. Where
more than one person is so engaged in a single operation, all persons
shall be deemed jointly and severally responsible for compliance with
the provisions of this Part.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
or cooperative enterprise. In any provisions of this Part 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.
PLASTIC BEVERAGE CARRIER
Plastic rings or similar plastic connectors used as holding
devices in the packaging of beverages including, but not limited to,
all carbonated beverages, liquors, wines, fruit juices, mineral waters,
soda and beer.
POLLUTION
Contamination of any air, water, land or other natural resources
of the Township of Ross that will create, or is likely to create,
a public nuisance or to render the air, water, land or other natural
resources harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety
or welfare, or to domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural,
recreational or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock,
wild animals, birds, fish or other life.
POST-CONSUMER MATERIAL
Any product generated by a business or consumer which has
served its intended end use, and which has been separated or diverted
from solid waste for the purposes of collection, recycling, and disposition.
The term includes industrial by-products that would otherwise go to
disposal or processing facilities. The term does not include internally
generated scrap that is commonly returned to industrial or manufacturing
processes.
PROCESSING
Any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume
or bulk of municipal 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.
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Those activities required to be conducted prior to constructing
a processing or disposal facility that has been shown to be feasible,
including, but not limited to, public input and participation, siting,
procurement and vendor contract negotiations, and market and municipal
waste supply assurance negotiations.
RECYCLED CONTENT
Goods, supplies, equipment, materials and printing containing
post-consumer materials.
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.
RECYCLING FACILITIES
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
for 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.
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, waste water treatment facility or air pollution
control facility, provided that it is not hazardous. The term shall
not include coal refuse as defined in the Act of September 24, 1968,
P.L. 1040, No. 318, known as the Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act,
52 P.S. § 30.51 et seq. The term 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 22, 1937, P.L. 1897, No. 394, known
as the Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITY
A processing facility that provides for the extraction and
utilization of materials or energy from municipal waste that is generated
off-site, including, but not limited to, a facility that mechanically
extracts materials from municipal waste to usable energy, and any
chemical and biological process that converts municipal waste into
a fuel product. The term also includes any facility for the combustion
of municipal waste that is generated off-site, whether or not the
facility is operated to recover energy. The term does not include:
(2)
Methane gas extraction from a municipal waste landfill.
(3)
Any separation and collection center, drop-off point or collection
center for recycling or any source separation or collection center
for composting leaf waste.
(4)
Any facility, including all units in the facility, with a total
processing capacity of less than 50 tons per day.
SOLID WASTE
Any waste including, but not limited to, municipal, residual
or hazardous wastes including, solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous materials. The term does not include coal ash or drill cuttings.
STORAGE
The containment of any municipal 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 municipal waste in excess
of one year constitute disposal. This presumption can be overcome
by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.
TRANSPORTATION
The off-site removal of any municipal waste at any time after
generation.
TREATMENT
Any method, technique or process including, but not limited
to, neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological
character or composition of any municipal waste so as to neutralize
such waste or so as to render such waste safer for transport, suitable
for recovery, suitable for storage or reduced in volume.
WASTE REDUCTION
Design, manufacture or use of a product to minimize weight
of municipal waste that requires processing or disposal including,
but not limited to:
(1)
Design or manufacturing activities which minimize the weight
or volume of materials contained in a product, or increase durability
or recyclability.
(2)
Use of products that contain as little material as possible,
are capable of being reused or recycled or have an extended useful
life.