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� � � � DEFIN�TIONS* "Aluminvm" is a light, grey nonferrous metal, typically discarded as scrap beverage cans, house siding, cookingware, and furniture. "Compastable yard waste" includes leaves, grass clippings and other organic wastes from lawn and garden maintenance that can readily b� transformed into a usabl.e soil amendment through controlled biological degradation. "Compasting" means the controlled bialogical decomposition of � selected solid waste in a manner re�ulting in a humus-like final product that can be used as a soi� amendment. � "Backyard composting" means small-scale composting of yard and garden wastes by individual homeowners on their property. � "Centralized campas�ing" means composting of wastes on a larger scale, such as at neighborhood br city- wide camposting sites. � � � � � � � �� � "Corrugat�d containers" consist of kraft linerboard cartons with corrugated paper, typically used to ship materials. They do not include noncorrugated containers such as chipboard or singleply boxes (for example, a cereal carton). 5ome cartons that are heavily caated or waxed and used to ship meats and vegetables are not recyclable, and are class�fied as "other organics." "Curbside collection" means collection at the point of generaiion of recyclables or campostable materials. "Ferrous containers" are steel and bimetal food or beverage cans and small, clean metal pails. "Glass bottles and jars" consist only of glass, food, and beverage containers. "Hazardous waste" m�ans any refuse, sludge, ar o�her waste material or combinations of refuse, sludge or other waste materials or discarded material,s, or a cambination of refuse or discarded materials in solid, semisolid, liquid, cantained gaseous form, which because of the quantity, concentra�ion, or chemical, physa.cal., or infectious characteristics may (a) cause or significantly contribute to an increase �n mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness; or that cannot be handled by routine waste rnanagement techniques because it (b) poses a substantiaJ. present or potential hazard to human hea].th or the environment when improperly treated, stored, tzar_sported, or disposed of, or otherwise snanaged. Categ�ries of hazazdous waste materials include, but are no� Ii.mited to, explosivesr f].ammables, oxidizers, poisons, i�ritants and corrosives. Hazardous waste does not include source, special nuciear, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. {Minn. Stat., s�c. 116.06, subd. 1.3.) :