This article sets forth special provisions for special wastes
other than municipal solid wastes, i.e., normal, residential and commercial
solid waste, generated within a community.
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The disposal or processing of all hazardous wastes, special wastes and infectious wastes, as defined in § 71-16 below, is prohibited in the Town of Hartford.
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Nothing in this section shall include any waste or materials arising
from normal agricultural activities. "Hazardous wastes" or "special
wastes" shall not include manure, compost or fertilizers used in normal
agricultural activities generated by an operating farm.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A solid waste that meets one or more of the following criteria:
The solid waste has been designated as a hazardous waste, particulate
or material by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in
40 CFR Part 261, as may be amended;
The solid waste has been designated as a hazardous waste, particulate
or material by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
in 6 NYCRR Part 371, as may be amended;
The solid waste exhibits any of the characteristics as designated
by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (40 CFR Part
261) or the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
(6 NYCRR Part 371), as the respective regulations may be amended:
Waste materials that include:
Equipment, instruments, implements, and fomites (any substance
that may harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms) of a disposable
nature from the rooms of patients who are suspected to have or have
been diagnosed as having a communicable disease;
Laboratory wastes, including pathological specimens, i.e., all
excretions and secretions obtained from patients or laboratory animals
and disposable fomites attendant thereto;
Surgical operating room pathological specimens and disposable
fomites attendant thereto, and similar disposable materials from outpatient
areas and emergency rooms; and
Materials or waste of any nature arising from embalming facilities.
"Processing" is meant to include converting, commercial incinerating,
refining, transforming, and treating.
Include, but are not limited to, materials from construction,
repair, demolition and excavation, solid industrial wastes, paper
sludge, septage, composted septage, ash generated from resource-recovery
facilities, hazardous wastes, matter in the form of animal carcasses,
and/or any solid, liquid or gaseous matter generated from the destruction,
incineration, disposal or processing of animal carcasses.
