As used in this article, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
BULK ITEM
An item of solid waste larger than two feet by two feet by
four feet or heavier than 50 pounds.
COMMISSIONER
The Commissioner of the Department of Recycling and Sustainable
Materials Management.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS
Wastes resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and
demolition of structures, road building and land clearing. Such wastes
are limited to bricks, concrete and other masonry materials, soil,
rock and lumber, road spoils, paving material and tree and brush stumps.
DEPARTMENT
The Department of Recycling and Sustainable Materials Management
of the Town of Brookhaven.
DIVISION
A division of this Department pursuant to §
20-83 of this article.
EXPLOSIVES
Any chemical compound or a mechanical mixture that is commonly
used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which
contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in
such proportions, quantities or packing that an ignition by fire,
by friction, by concussion, by percussion or by detonator of any part
of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly
heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing
destructive effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or
limb.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
HAZARDOUS WASTE:
(1)
A solid waste or a combination of solid wastes
which, because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical
or infectious characteristics, may:
(a)
Cause or significantly contribute to an increase
in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating
reversible illness; or
(b)
Pose a substantial present or potential hazard
to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored,
transported or disposed of or otherwise managed.
(2)
Such wastes shall include but are not limited
to explosives, hazardous radioactive materials, toxic substances and
those substances which the Commissioner has identified as a "hazardous
waste" pursuant to the above criteria and has included on a list of
"hazardous waste" promulgated by the Department.
LITTER
All waste material, including rubbish and garbage, which
tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare and/or
which creates an unsightly condition.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, private or municipal
corporation, company or organization of any kind.
RESOURCE RECOVERY
The separation, extraction and recovery of usable materials
(including, without limitation, methane), energy or heat from solid
waste through source separation recycling centers or other programs,
projects or facilities.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, including but not limited to paper, wrappings,
cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding,
crockery and similar materials, and the carbon component of energy
waste, whether in solid or gaseous form.
SLUDGE
Any solid, semisolid or liquid waste generated from a municipal,
commercial or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply
treatment plant or air-pollution control facility which has been dewatered
to twenty-percent solids and, once dewatered, does not show evidence
of free moisture.
SOLID WASTE
All putrescible and nonputrescible materials or substances
discarded or rejected as having served their original intended use
or as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess to the owner at
the time of such discard or rejection, including, without limitation,
garbage, refuse, litter, rubbish, industrial waste, commercial waste,
sludges, ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator residue, construction
and demolition debris, discarded automobiles and offal, but not including
solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or substances and materials
in noncontainerized gaseous form. Materials intended for recycling
are also solid waste within the meaning of this article.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
The purposeful and systematic transportation, storage, recycling,
treatment, processing, separation, reduction, recovery or disposal
of solid waste.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY
Any facility for the storage, transportation, recycling,
processing, separation, reduction, recovery, treatment or disposal
of solid wastes, including but not limited to transfer stations, baling
facilities, rail haul or barge haul facilities, processing systems,
source separation facilities, sanitary landfills, plants and facilities
for compacting, composting or pyrolization of solid wastes, incinerators
and other solid waste disposal, reduction or conversion facilities.
SOURCE SEPARATION
The segregation of usable and recyclable materials from the
solid waste stream for separate collection, sale or other disposition.
TOWN
The Town of Brookhaven.
TOWN BOARD
The Town Board of the Town of Brookhaven.