The following words and phrases as used in this Part shall have the
meaning ascribed herein, unless the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
ACT or ACT 97
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act of 1980, P.L.
380, No. 97, July 7, 1980.
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 such waste
is not a hazardous waste. The term includes the residual materials
generated in producing, harvesting, and marketing of all agronomic,
horticultural, silvicultural, and agricultural crops or commodities
grown on what are usually recognized and accepted farms, forest, or
other agricultural lands.
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 non-manufacturing or non-processing
business including, but not limited to, stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers, and theaters.
CONSTRUCTION DEMOLITION WASTE
All municipal and residual waste building materials, grubbing
waste and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair,
and demolition operations on houses, commercial buildings, and other
structures and pavements.
DEPARTMENT
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
DISPOSAL
The incineration, 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 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
GARBAGE
Any solid waste derived from animal, grain, fruit, or vegetable
matter that is capable of being decomposed by micro-organisms with
sufficient rapidity to cause such nuisances as odors, gases, or vectors.
HAULER or PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Any person, firm, co-partnership, 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.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
Any solid waste or combination of solid wastes, as defined
in the Act, which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical,
chemical, or infectious characteristics, may: (1) cause or significantly
contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in morbidity
in either an individual or the total population; or (2) 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, schools, and universities.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom, or office waste and
other material including solid, liquid, semi-solid, 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
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.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, state institution and agency, or any other
legal entity which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and
duties. 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.
PROCESSING
Any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume
or bulk of municipal or residual waste or any technology used to convert
part or all of such waste materials for off-site re-use. Processing
facilities include, but are not limited to, transfer facilities, composting
facilities, and resource recovery facilities.
REFUSE
All solid waste materials which are discarded as useless.
RESIDUAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, other discarded material, or other waste,
including solid, liquid, sei-solid, or contained gaseous materials
resulting from industrial, mining, and agricultural operations and
any sludge from an industrial, mining, or agricultural water supply
treatment 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 "Clean streams Law."
RUBBISH
All non-putrescible municipal 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 de-watered 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, semi-solid, 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. This presumption can be overcome by clear and convincing
evidence to the contrary.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Baldwin, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
TRANSFER STATION
Any supplemental transportation facility used as an adjunct
to solid waste route collection vehicles.
TRANSPORTATION
The off-site removal of any solid waste at any time after
generation.