Article 157p. 157

NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS STATUTES and IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS

(r) Materials recovery facility — includes a solid waste

transfer station or sorting station, drop-off center, a

composting facility, and a recycling facility;

(s) Municipal waste shall refer to wastes produced from

activities within local government units which include a

combination of domestic, commercial, institutional and

industrial wastes and street litters;

(t) Open dump shall refer to a disposal area wherein the

solid wastes are indiscriminately thrown or disposed of

without

due

planning

and

consideration

for

environmental and health standards;

(u) Opportunity to recycle shall refer to the act of

providing

a

place

for

collecting

source-separated

recyclable material, located either at a disposal site or at

another location more convenient to the population

being served, and collection at least once a month of

source-separated

recyclable

material from collection

service customers and to providing a public education

and promotion program that gives notice to each person

of the opportunity to recycle and encourage source

separation of recyclable material;

(v) Person(s) shall refer to any being, natural or juridical,

susceptible of rights and obligations, or of being the

subject of legal relations;

(w) Post-consumer material shall refer only to those

materials

or

products

generated

by

a

business

or

consumer which have served their intended end use,

and which have been separated or diverted from solid

waste for the purpose of being collected, processed and

used as a raw material in the manufacturing of a

recycled product, excluding materials and by-products

generated from, and commonly used within an original

manufacturing process, such as mill scrap;

(x) Receptacles shall refer to individual containers used

for the source separation and the collection of recyclable

materials;

(y)

Recovered

material

shall

refer

to

material

and

by-products that have been recovered or diverted from

solid waste for the purpose of being collected, processed

and used as a raw material in the manufacture of a

recycled product;

(z) Recyclable material shall refer to any waste material

retrieved

from

the

waste

stream

and

free

from

contamination that can still be converted into suitable

beneficial use or for other purposes, including, but not

limited to, newspaper, ferrous scrap metal, non-ferrous

scrap metal, used oil, corrugated cardboard, aluminum,

glass, office paper, tin cans and other materials as may

be determined by the Commission;

(aa)

Recycled

material shall refer to post-consumer

material that has been recycled and returned to the

economy;

(bb) Recycling shall refer to the treating of used or waste

materials through a process of making them suitable for

beneficial use and for other purposes, and includes any

process by which solid waste materials are transformed

into new products in such a manner that the original

products may lose their identity, and which may be used

as raw materials for the production of other goods or

services: Provided, That the collection, segregation and

re-use of previously used packaging material shall be

deemed recycling under this Act;

(cc) Resource conservation shall refer to the reduction of

the amount of solid waste that are generated or the

reduction

of

overall

resource

consumption,

and

utilization of recovered resources;

(dd) Resource recovery shall refer to the collection,

extraction or recovery of recyclable materials from the

waste stream for the purpose of recycling, generating

energy or producing a product suitable for beneficial

use: Provided, That, such resource recovery facilities

exclude incineration;

(ee) Re-use shall refer to the process of recovering

materials intended for the same or different purpose

without

the

alteration

of

physical

and

chemical

characteristics;

(ff) Sanitary landfill shall refer to a waste disposal site

designed, constructed, operated and maintained in a

manner that exerts engineering control over significant

potential

environmental

impacts

arising

from

the

development and operation of the facility;

(gg)

Schedule

of

Compliance

shall

refer

to

an

enforceable sequence of actions or operations to be

accomplished within a stipulated time frame leading to

compliance with a limitation, prohibition, or standard set

forth in this Act or any rule or regulation issued pursuant

thereto;

(hh)

Secretary

shall

refer

to

the

Secretary

of

the

Department of Environment and Natural Resources;

(ii) Segregation shall refer to a solid waste management

practice of separating different materials found in solid

waste in order to promote recycling and re-use of

resources

and

to

reduce

the

volume

of waste for

collection and disposal;

(jj) Segregation at source shall refer to a solid waste

management practice of separating, at the point of

origin, different materials found in solid waste in order to

promote recycling and re-use of resources and to reduce

the volume of waste for collection and disposal;

(kk) Solid waste shall refer to all discarded household,

commercial

waste,

non-hazardous

institutional

and

industrial waste, street sweepings, construction debris,

agricultural waste, and other non-hazardous/non-toxic

solid waste.

Unless

specifically noted otherwise, the term "solid

waste" as used in this Act shall not include:

(1) waste identified or listed as hazardous waste of a

solid, liquid, contained gaseous or semi-solid form which

may cause or contribute to an increase in mortality or in

serious

or

incapacitating

reversible

illness,

or

acute/chronic effect on the health of persons and other

organisms;

(2) infectious waste from hospitals such as equipment,

instruments, utensils, and fomites of a disposable nature

from patients who are suspected to have or have been

diagnosed as having communicable diseases and must

therefore

be

isolated

as

required

by

public health

agencies,

laboratory

wastes

such

as

pathological

specimens (i.e., all tissues, specimens of blood elements,

excreta,

and

secretions

obtained

from

patients

or

laboratory animals), and disposable fomites that may

harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms, and surgical

operating room pathologic specimens and disposable

fomites

attendant

thereto,

and

similar

disposable

materials from outpatient areas and emergency rooms;

and

(3) waste resulting from mining activities, including

contaminated soil and debris.

(ll) Solid waste management shall refer to the discipline

associated

with

the

control

of

generation,

storage,

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