Sec. 21-143. Definitions

Aluminum includes any aluminum alloy whether in the form of aluminum containers used for beverages, aluminum scrap, or foil.

Appliances comprise the class of household machines used for performing specific tasks, including stoves, washing machines, and refrigerators, which are free of toxic residues or components containing designated hazardous wastes and weighing no more than one ton.

Bimetal containers include all disposable food and beverage cans made from both aluminum and steel.

Cardboard products include cardboard and paperboard of the type used for making boxes, cartons, and similar corrugated and kraft paper material.

Compost materials are those organic/humus-rich materials derived from the natural processes of composting of leaves, grass clippings, brush and limbs, and other organic materials.

Composting means the practice of converting organic wastes into soil-like humus by adjusting environmental conditions to encourage the decomposition activities of bacteria.

Concrete subbase means concrete aggregate used as a roadbed and foundation stabilizer.

Condominium means a building containing three (3) or more units subject to a condominium regime established under the Maryland Condominium Act.

County facility means a property, building, office or facility, owned or leased by Prince George's County.

Crumb rubber means mechanically reduced pieces of pneumatic tires, the pieces of which are generally smaller than four (4) inches square.

Department means the Department of the Environment.

Designated recyclable materials mean those recyclable materials, including metal, glass, paper, mixed paper, plastics, food waste, leaf and yard wastes, corrugated and other cardboard, newspaper, magazines, or high-grade office paper designated by the Director to be source separated pursuant to Section 21-144(a).

Director means the Director of the Department of the Environment.

Disposition or disposition of designated recyclable materials mean the transportation, placement, reuse, sale, donation, transfer, or temporary storage for a period not exceeding six months of designated recyclable materials for all possible uses except for disposal as solid waste.

Ferrous material means any material, including food or beverage cans and scrap steel, which is, or is primarily derived from, iron.

Food composting means the controlled biological decomposition of food waste and scraps for the purpose of producing compost materials.

Foundry slag means the fused refuse or dross separated from a metal in the process of smelting or casting.

Glass means all products made from silica or sand, soda ash, and limestone, the product being transparent or translucent and being used for packaging or bottling various matters and other materials commonly known as glass, including blue and flat glass commonly known as window glass, mirrors, milk glass, and crystal.

Glass container means any container made from silica or sand, soda ash, and limestone, which is transparent or translucent and being used for packaging or bottling various matters intended for human ingestion.

Glassy aggregates include the fused silicated residues commonly resulting from steel and iron smelting operations.

High grade office paper includes white or off-white, fine, bond, ledger, offset, xerographic, and computer paper and related types of cellulosic material containing not more than ten percent (10%) by weight or volume of noncellulosic material such as laminates, coatings, or saturants.

Leaf waste means tree, bush, and shrub foliage.

Market or marketing means the disposition of designated recyclable materials collected and source separated or separated in an intermediate processing facility for sale as a secondary raw material for use in manufacturing new products, or for use in place of a material which would otherwise consume virgin materials.

Materials recovery facility means any facility designed and operated for the purpose of receiving, storing, processing, and transferring source-separated or co-mingled nonputrescible metal, glass, paper, plastic containers, and corrugated and other cardboard, or other recyclable materials approved by the Director.

Mixed paper includes a wide range of paper stock and consists of unsorted mixed papers, including magazines, paperboard, and softbound books.

Multifamily rental facility means a building operated as a single entity in which the landlord provides, for a consideration, three (3) or more rental dwelling units.

Newspaper means a periodical printed on a paper commonly referred to as newsprint. Expressly excluded are all magazines, advertising slicks, and all other paper products of any nature whatsoever.

Paper means and includes all newspaper, high-grade office paper, fine paper, bond paper, offset paper, xerographic paper, mimeograph paper, duplicator paper, and related types of cellulosic material containing not more than ten percent (10%) by weight or volume of noncellulosic material such as laminates, binders, coatings, or saturants.

Paper product means any paper items or commodities, including, but not limited to, paper napkins, towels, corrugated and other cardboard, construction material, toilet tissue, paper, and related types of cellulosic products containing not more than ten percent (10%) by weight or volume of noncellulosic material such as laminates, binders, coatings, or saturants.

Plastic means any class of compounds composed of synthetic thermoplastic polymeric material.

Processing facility means materials recovery facility.

Recyclable material means those materials which would otherwise become solid waste, and which can be collected, separated, or processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products.

Recycled asphalt pavement means asphalt which, having been removed from its foundation on a vehicle roadbed, path, or sidewalk, is processed into a form which renders it reusable.

Recycled paper means any paper having a total weight consisting of not less than forty percent (40%) secondary wastepaper material.

Recycling means any process by which materials which would otherwise become solid waste are collected, separated, or processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products.

Recycling coordinator means a person designated to organize and facilitate the operations of ongoing recycling programs.

Recycling rate means a percentage of recyclables removed from the total waste stream for the purpose of being recycled.

Refuse means solid waste.

Scavenging means removing recyclable materials from a designated recycling container or area without approval from the owner or operator of the recycling operation designated to recover and process the materials.

Single family rental facility means any building, structure, or combination of related buildings, structures, and appurtenances operated as a single entity, in which the landlord provides, for a consideration, less than three (3) rental dwelling units.

Single-stream recycling means the placement of recyclables in the same collection container and sorted at a recycling or recovery processing facility.

Solid waste means all waste material, combustible or noncombustible, from all public and private establishments and residences that is not presorted prior to collection for the purposes of recovery for reuse, recycling, composting or which is contaminated with more than one percent (1%) food wastes or unsafe quantities of hazardous or toxic wastes as designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or by Maryland State agencies rendering it inappropriate or potentially harmful as a reusable or recyclable resource. Solid waste includes trash, garbage, rubbish, offal, and industrial and commercial refuse, but not body excrements.

Source separation means the act of separating recyclable materials from solid wastes by the generators of such waste for the purpose of collection, disposition, reuse, composting, and recycling.

Tire means pneumatic automobile, truck, or heavy machine, synthetic or natural, rubber casting designed to be fixed around a metal wheel.

Waste stream analysis means the process that involves the physical collection, sorting, and weighing of a sample of the waste stream to identify and quantify materials that can be removed from the waste stream by waste reduction, reuse, or recycling to determine compliance with the County's recycling program.

Yard waste means those organic, vegetative wastes typically consisting of branches, leaves, brush, grass clippings, thatch, and similar material.

Yard waste composting facility means any facility designed and operated for the purpose of receiving and processing source-separated leaf and yard waste, including, but not limited to, grass clippings, brush and limbs, and other garden materials.