For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have
the meanings hereby respectively ascribed thereto:
BULKY WASTE
Items of solid waste which, due to their size, shape or weight,
cannot be collected as a part of the normal weekly municipal waste
collection and, therefore, require special handling. Bulky waste includes,
but is not limited to, large auto parts, machinery or parts thereof,
tools, plumbing fixtures, skids, furniture, or any acceptable item
that does not fit in to a regular thirty-three-gallon refuse receptacle.
White goods, tires and electronic waste are not considered bulky waste.
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USER
Signifies each separate business, commercial, institutional
or industrial user and includes churches, schools or any other separate
user, whether contained in its own unit or in a complex, not classified
as a domestic user.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE
Lumber, roofing material, sheathing, rubble, broken concrete,
macadam, plaster, brick, conduit, pipe, insulation and other material
which results from a construction, demolition or remodeling process.
The term also includes street sweepings and nonfriable (nonflake)
asbestos.
DOMESTIC USER
Signifies a single-family unit, either housed in a single-family
home, duplex house unit, apartment building or any other complex,
but shall not include public or nonprofit elderly housing.
GARBAGE
All table refuse, animal and vegetable matter, offal from
meat, fish and fowls, fruits, vegetables and parts thereof and other
articles and materials ordinarily used for food which have become
unfit for use or which are for any reason discarded.
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE
A portion of regulated municipal solid waste that would be
considered hazardous under Pennsylvania Act 97 but is produced in
quantities smaller than those regulated as hazardous waste under Pennsylvania
Act 97 and is generated by persons not otherwise covered as hazardous
waste generators by Act 97. "Household hazardous waste" includes the following materials
and other materials of a similar nature:
(3)
Chlorinated hydrocarbons.
(5)
Grease and rust solvents.
(6)
Oven, toilet and drain cleaners.
(7)
Paints, rust preventatives, stains and wood preservatives (in
liquid or gas form).
(8)
Pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, rodenticides
and roach and ant killers.
(9)
Photographic and pool chemicals.
(10)
Thinners, solvents and furniture strippers.
(11)
Transmission and brake fluids.
(12)
Used oil or other hydrocarbon.
(13)
Wood, metal, rug and upholstery cleaners and polishes.
OVERSIZED REFUSE ITEMS
A piece of refuse which will not fit into a refuse container
but which is not bulky waste, including a small piece of furniture,
carpet, and any acceptable item less than six feet in any dimension
and less than 45 pounds in total weight. Tires, white goods and electronic
waste are not acceptable items.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
REFUSE
All discarded articles and material, except sewage and liquid
waste, resulting from ordinary household and commercial pursuits and
including garbage, rubbish, ashes and incombustible waste.
RESIDUAL WASTE
Garbage, refuse, other discarded material or other waste,
including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous materials
resulting from industrial, mining and agricultural operations and
sludge from an industrial, mining or agricultural water supply treatment
facility, wastewater treatment facility or air pollution control facility,
provided that it is not hazardous.
RUBBISH
All discarded articles or material resulting from ordinary
household or commercial pursuits, and in the nature of paper, cloth,
wooden articles or material and other readily combustible articles
or material.
WHITE GOODS
Large appliances (i.e., weighing more than 50 pounds) including
the following:
(2)
Clothes-washing and drying machines.
(4)
Furnaces and electrical heaters.
(6)
Refrigerators and freezers.