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Ramsey County Solid Waste Master Plan 2011 -2030 Page I SH
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<br />treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
<br />Categories of hazardous waste materials include, but are not limited to
<br />explosives, flammables, oxidizers, poisons, irritants, and corrosives.
<br />Hazardous waste does not include source, special nuclear, or by- product
<br />material as defined by The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
<br />(Minn. Stat. §116.06, Subd. 11)
<br />Hierarchy
<br />See Waste Management Hierarchy.
<br />Household Hazardous Waste
<br />Waste generated from household activity that exhibits the characteristics
<br />(HHW)
<br />of or that is listed as hazardous waste under Minnesota Pollution Control
<br />Agency rules, but does not include waste from commercial activities that is
<br />generated, stored, or present in a household. (Minn. Stat. §115A.96, Subd.
<br />1)
<br />Industrial (Solid) Waste
<br />Solid waste resulting from an industrial process, manufacturing, service
<br />activity, or commercial activity that is managed as a separate waste
<br />stream. (Minn. Stat. §115A.03, Subd. 13a) It does not include wastes
<br />regulated as hazardous wastes.
<br />Infectious Waste
<br />Laboratory waste, blood, regulated body fluids, sharps, and research -
<br />animal wastes that have not been decontaminated. (Minn. Stat. § 116.76,
<br />Subd. 12)
<br />Integrated Solid Waste
<br />A solid waste management system in which various waste management
<br />Management
<br />methods are used to manage waste (e.g., waste reduction, reuse,
<br />recycling, composting, resource recovery, landfilling, etc.), depending upon
<br />the characteristics of the waste and often according to a waste
<br />management hierarchy.
<br />Joint Powers Agreement
<br />A legally binding agreement between two or more governmental entities.
<br />It is a tool for intergovernmental action on, for example, solid waste
<br />management activities.
<br />Landfill (land disposal facility)
<br />A waste facility permitted by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency that
<br />is designed or operated for disposing of waste on or in the land. (Defined
<br />as "disposal facility' in Minn. Stat. § 115A.03, Subd. 10)
<br />Landfill Abatement
<br />Actions that avoid landfilling of waste, such as waste reduction, recycling,
<br />or resource recovery.
<br />Landfill Surcharge
<br />A surcharge applied to waste tipped at landfills; can include State, county,
<br />and local surcharges.
<br />Leachate
<br />Liquid that has percolated through solid waste and has extracted,
<br />dissolved, or suspended materials from it. (Minn. Rules §7035.0330,
<br />Subd. 56)
<br />Local Recycling Development
<br />Funds administered by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)
<br />Grant
<br />and allocated to metropolitan counties for the planning, development, and
<br />operation of recycling and yard waste composting programs. Local
<br />Recycling Development Grant funds are distributed from the Metropolitan
<br />Landfill Abatement Account.
<br />Major Appliances
<br />Also commonly referred to as "white goods." Includes items banned by
<br />State law from disposal with solid waste (clothes washers and dryers,
<br />dishwashers, hot water heaters, heat pumps, furnaces, garbage disposals,
<br />trash compactors, conventional and microwave ovens, ranges and stoves,
<br />air conditioners, dehumidifiers, refrigerators and freezers). (Minn. Stat.
<br />§115A.03, Subd. 17a)
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