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Materials Recovery Facility
<br />Facility designed for centralized sorting, processing, and /or grading of
<br />collected recyclable materials for marketing.
<br />Medical Waste
<br />Commonly used term referring to infectious waste from medical facilities
<br />or procedures.
<br />Metropolitan Landfill
<br />Established under Minn. Stat. Sec. 473.844, an account created to fund
<br />Abatement Account
<br />projects that result in landfill abatement in the metropolitan area. Part of
<br />the proceeds from a State landfill surcharge on waste tipped at
<br />metropolitan area landfills is deposited into this account.
<br />Minnesota Pollution Control
<br />State agency responsible for overall environmental quality of the state,
<br />Agency
<br />primarily through enforcement of State rules, issuing of permits, and
<br />education for compliance. The Governor appoints commissioner.
<br />Mixed Municipal Solid Waste
<br />Garbage, refuse, and other solid waste from residential, commercial,
<br />(MSW)
<br />industrial, and community activities that the generator of the waste
<br />aggregates for collection, but does not include auto hulks, street
<br />sweepings, ash, construction debris, mining waste, sludges, tree and
<br />agricultural wastes, tires, lead acid batteries, used oil, and other materials
<br />collected, processed, and disposed of as separate waste streams. (Minn.
<br />Stat. §115A.03 Subd. 21)
<br />Multi- family
<br />Multi- family (or "multi- unit ") residential dwellings are considered
<br />residences, not commercial establishments, for purposes of this plan.
<br />Multi -unit
<br />Multi -unit (or "multi- family ") residential dwellings are considered
<br />residences, not commercial establishments, for purposes of this plan.
<br />Non -MSW
<br />Solid waste that is not managed as part of the MSW stream. Typically
<br />thought of as those items specifically excluded from MSW in the statutory
<br />definition of MSW, as well as other wastes such as non - hazardous
<br />industrial waste, C &D waste, infectious waste, and other separately
<br />managed solid waste streams.
<br />Non - processible Waste
<br />Waste brought to a resource recovery facility but which cannot be
<br />mechanically processed due to its physical characteristics or potential
<br />harmful effects.
<br />Non - putrescible Waste
<br />Solid wastes which are not capable of being decomposed by micro-
<br />organisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause odors, gases, attraction of
<br />vectors or other offensive conditions. (By contrast, putrescible wastes are
<br />a subset of organic wastes that tend to biodegrade very rapidly, such as
<br />food scraps.)
<br />Non - residential
<br />Refers to places other than where people live, such as businesses,
<br />government facilities or operations, institutions, schools, non - profit
<br />organizations, community activities, etc. Interchangeable with
<br />"commercial."
<br />Open Collection
<br />A solid waste collection system in which multiple waste haulers or
<br />collectors compete for collection accounts in the same geographical area.
<br />Organics
<br />Organics is an overarching term for wastes that can be reused, processed
<br />and recycled and includes yard waste (leaves, grass, tree and shrub waste
<br />and other plant waste), household vegetable /kitchen scraps, commercially
<br />generated food waste, food manufacturing/production by- products,
<br />produce and meat trimmings, plant waste, and soiled, non - recyclable
<br />paper.
<br />Ramsey County Solid Waste Master Plan 2011 -2030 Page 159
<br />Approved by the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners on 3120112
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