21.20.010 Definitions.
In this chapter unless the context requires otherwise:
“Biomass” means a given quantity of organic material.
“Bulky wastes” are large items of refuse including but not limited to appliances, vehicles, furniture, large auto parts, tires, trees and branches, stumps and flotage.
“Garbage” means any putrescible solid and semisolid animal or vegetable wastes resulting from the production, handling, preparation, cooking, serving or consumption of food or food materials.
“Hazardous waste” means a waste or combination of wastes that because of quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious, pathological or radiological characteristics might cause, or significantly contribute to:
1. An increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or
2. A substantial present or potential hazard to human health or to the environment if improperly managed, treated, stored, transported or disposed of or otherwise managed.
“Industrial solid waste” means any waste substance or a combination thereof resulting from the operation of or from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business, or from the development of any agricultural or natural resources.
“Infectious waste” means certain laboratory, surgical and hospital waste; surgical specimens including pathological specimens, tissues, blood elements, excreta and secretions obtained from patients; disposable materials that have been in contact with persons who have a suspected or diagnosed communicable disease; a substance that might harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms; disposable materials from outpatient areas, emergency rooms and rooms of patients with a suspected or diagnosed communicable disease that requires isolation; and certain equipment, including instruments, syringes and needles.
“Landfill” means a Borough-operated site for the disposal and burial of waste materials in compliance with all regulatory requirements and permits.
“Litter” means any discarded, used or unconsumed substance or waste material which has not been deposited in a suitable litter receptacle.
“Putrescible waste” means material that can decompose and cause obnoxious odors.
“Recyclables” or “recyclable materials” means any materials that have useful physical or chemical properties after serving their original purpose and that can, therefore, be reused or remanufactured into additional products, but excludes items collected as waste-to-energy fuels.
“Recycling” means the process by which a material that would otherwise be placed in the landfill is collected, reprocessed, or remanufactured, and then reused.
“Recycling facility” means any Borough-operated facility that processes recyclable materials for reuse, but excludes waste-to-energy facilities.
“Refuse” means any putrescible or nonputrescible solid waste, except human excreta.
“Resource recovery” means the processing of solid wastes in such a way as to produce materials or energy which may be used in manufacturing, agriculture, or other processes.
“Secured” means tied down or otherwise not subject to release.
“Sludge” means any solid, semisolid or liquid waste which contains at least five percent solids by weight generated at a municipal, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment plant, septic tank, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility; “sludge” includes any similar material accumulated in and removed from a storage tank or surface impoundment containing oil, industrial liquid waste, acid, chemicals or other similar substances.
“Solid waste” means drilling wastes, garbage, refuse, sludge and other discarded material, including recyclables and waste-to-energy fuels, and solid, liquid, semi-solid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and from community activities. For the purposes of this chapter “solid waste” does not include:
1. Spoil and overburden from road construction, land clearing or mining operations;
2. Mining waste regulated by the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, as amended, and by the Alaska Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1982 (AS 27.21);
3. Domestic sewage and other wastes that are discharged into the pass through a sewer system to a publicly owned treatment works;
4. Industrial or mining wastes that are being collected, stored or treated in:
a. A wastewater treatment plant before discharge or removal, or
b. An industrial processing facility for continual reuse;
5. Industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended;
6. Source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Nuclear Waste Policy of 1982, as amended January 7, 1983, at Public Law 97-425.
“Solid waste disposal facility” or “solid waste facility” means any Borough-operated landfill, recycling or waste-to-energy facility, or transfer site.
“Special solid waste” means hazardous wastes, infectious wastes, radioactive wastes, industrial wastes or sludges and sewage residues.
“Transfer site” means any Borough-operated site for the collection and transfer of solid waste materials to a landfill, recycling, or waste-to-energy facility, and that may provide areas for reuse (reuse platforms).
“Waste-to-energy” means the controlled combustion of solid waste in solid waste combustors having state-of-the-art pollution controls and energy recovery therefrom, including refuse derived fuel (RDF). (Ord. 2019-18 § 2, 2019; Ord. 2019-09 § 2, 2019; Ord. 2017-49 § 6, 2017; Ord. 2012-49 § 2, 2012; Ord. 2009-39 § 3, 2009; Ord. 2003-43 § 2, 2003; Ord. 94-045 §§ 2, 3, 1994; amended during 1993 republication; Ord. 89-038 § 2, 1989; Ord. 84-29 § 2, 1984. 2004 Code § 8.12.021.)