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0 "Mixed municipal solid waste" means garbage, refuse, and other � solid waste from residential, cominercial, industrial and community activities that is generated and collected in aggregate, but does not include auto hulks, street sweepings, � ash, construction debris, mining waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes, tires, and other materials collected, - processed and disposed of as separate waste stzeams (Minn. Stat., _ Section 115A.03, subd. 21). "Mixed waste paper" consists of all short and long �iber papers that can be repulped. It includes printing, writing, and computing papers, magazines, food cartons, enve�opes, grocery sacks and other commercial and residential was�e fiber. It does not include item9 contaminated by other materials such as meta� (an orange juice can), plastics (an envelape windo�+r), wax (milk car�on) or other nonpaper materials or waste paper contaminated by food wastes. "Mulching" means the use or placement of grass clippings or other � organic materials over a lawn or garden so as to improve condi- ; tions for vegetative grawth. � "Newspaper" consists of printed, groundwood newsprint including glossy advertising inserts and Sunday edition magazines. "Oxganized collection" means a solzd waste col.�ection system � where an overlap of A) collection service areas and, B) types of ; collection services are prevented or cantrolled. The organizing � body may be public or private, and may exert i�s control by direct�y praviding the collection service or by contracting for r collection se�vices. ' '` "Other nonferrous" consists of inetals such as copper, brass, zinc, and lead. � "Other organics" consist of combustibl� and compostabl.e waste not _ otherwise categorized. They include food waste, plastics, rubber, textiles, leather, and paper that is not repulpable as - well as small quantities of other materials so mixed as to not be � recyclable. "Processed waste" means mixEd municipa� solid waste that has A) yard wastes and identified recoverable materials removed and, B) - been subject to a pr�cess that oxidizes part or all of its � organic cotnpanent or any other process resulting in organically stabilized materials. � "Recyclables" means materials that can be readily separated and used or reused as a substitute far raw materials. They include, but are not limited to, paper, glass, metals, automobile oil, and batteries. "Refuse-derived fuei (RDF)" means the fraction of processed tnunicipal waste that is shredded and can be used as fuel in a boiler. I� cansists of lighter weight materials such as paper products with��metals, glass, and other noncombustible anaterials removed. 39