Section 250-RICR-140-20-2.5 - DefinitionsA. For the purposes of these regulations, except as provided below, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Arrangements" means the process by which cities and towns plan for, implement and carry out the separation, weighing, collecting, hauling and disposal of municipal solid waste and recyclable materials.2. "Corporation" means the Resource Recovery Corporation, previously known as the Rhode Island Solid Waste Management Corporation.3. "Department" means the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.4. "Director" means the Director of the Department of Environmental Management.5. "HDPE" means high density polyethylene plastics labeled with a # 2 recycling symbol in accordance with standards established by the plastics industry. 6. "Implementation date" means the date by which the Department and a city or town specify that the city or town shall be in compliance with these Rules and Regulations.7. "Leaf and yard waste" means seasonal deposition of leaves from deciduous and coniferous trees and shrubbery, grass clippings, weeds, herbaceous garden waste, shrub and tree prunings, and brush.8. "Materials recovery facility" or "MRF" means a facility consisting of structures, machinery, or devices utilized to sort, bale, or otherwise process source-segregated recyclables, prior to conveyance to market outlets.9. "Municipal recycling program" means a recycling program for the separation of municipal solid waste as included in the implementation schedule and approved by the Department pursuant to these regulations.10. "Municipal solid waste" means that solid waste generated by the residents of a municipality in the course of their daily living, the disposal of which the governing body of the municipality has undertaken and controls in the discharge of its duties to protect the health of the municipality. Municipal solid waste does not include solid waste generated by residents of a municipality in the course of their employment or that generated by any manufacturing or commercial enterprise.11. "PETE" means polyethylene terephthalate plastics labeled with a #1 recycling symbol in accordance with standards established by the plastics industry.12. "Processable material" means those recyclable materials that meets criteria of purity and condition as defined by the Corporation and the Department in conjunction with the operator of the MRF.13. "Recyclable materials" means those materials which shall be separated from municipal solid waste for processing for reuse as listed in § 2.15 of this Part.14. "Resident" means of a city or town means anyone residing in that municipality for any period of time.15. "Segregated municipal solid waste" means municipal solid waste that has been separated into recyclable and non-recyclable materials in compliance with these regulations and the Rules and Regulations for Solid Waste Management Facilities and Organic Waste Management Facilities (Subchapter 05 Part 1 of this Chapter).16. "Solid waste" means garbage, refuse and other discarded materials generated by residential, institutional, commercial, industrial and agricultural sources but does not include solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage or sewage sludge, nor does it include hazardous waste as defined in the Hazardous Waste Management Act, R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-19.1-4(4), nor does it include used asphalt, concrete, portland concrete cement, or tree stumps. Solid waste shall also include non-hazardous liquid, semi-solid and containerized gaseous waste, subject to any special conditions of the Office of Waste Management Office of Land Revitalization and Sustainable Materials Management's Rules and Regulations for Solid Waste Management Facilities and Organic Waste Management Facilities (Subchapter 05 Part 1 of this Chapter).17. "Source separation" means the segregation of recyclable materials from other solid waste beginning at the point of generation, by using containers or other receptacles to maintain marketability before delivery to a solid waste management facility, intermediate processing facility, or a materials recovery facility.250 R.I. Code R. 250-RICR-140-20-2.5
Amended effective 4/22/2020