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Definitions Page 2 Processed Waste Mixed municipal solid waste that has a) yard wastes and recaverable materials removed and b) been suhject to a process that oxidizes part or aIl of its organic component or any other process resulting in an organically stahilized material. Recovery Rate The percent of material identified and available for waste reduction or source separation that is actually recovered through a specific abatement program. Rec clables Materials that can be readily separated and used or reused as a substitute for xaw materials. They include, but are not limited to, paper, glass, metals, automobile oil, and batteries. Refuse Derived Fuel The fraction of processed municipal waste that is shredded and can be used as fuel in a boiler; it consists of lighter weight materials such as paper products, with metals, glass, and other non-combustible materials remaved. Residential Solid Waste The garbage, rubbish, trash and other solid waste resulting from normal household activities. Resouxce Recove Facilit A waste facility established and used primarily for resource recovery. Solid Waste Garbage, refuse and ather discarded solid materials. It includes solid waste materia�s resulting from industrial, co�unercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. Solid waste does not include animal waste used as fertilizer; earthen fill, boulders, rock and ather materials normally handled in construction aperations; solids or dissolved material in damestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources such as silt, dissolved �r suspended solids in industrial waste water effltxents; dissolved materials in irrigation return flows; ar other common water pallutants. (Minnesota PolZution Control Agency, So1id Waste Regulation No. 1.} Solid Waste Management The systematic administration of activities that provide for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, and disposal of solid waste. Source Separation S�paration of recyclable or compostable materials by the waste generator prior to collection. Waste Manaaement Activities that are intended to affect or control the co�lection, processing and disposal of wastes.