§ 106-131. Definitions.

Unless the context otherwise requires, terms used in this article shall have the same meanings ascribed to them as in chapter 62-701, Florida Administrative Code, as amended, and as ascribed to them in this section.

Applicant means the person operating and maintaining, or desiring to operate and maintain, a solid waste management facility, and includes the owner of the property on which such facility is located.

Clean debris means any solid waste which is virtually inert, which is not a pollution threat to groundwater or surface water, is not a fire hazard, and is likely to retain its physical and chemical structure under expected conditions of disposal or use.

County administrator means the county administrator for the county or his designee.

County solid waste management facilities means those solid waste management facilities which are constructed, maintained, or operated by the county or pursuant to contract with the county. "County solid waste management facilities" shall not include facilities maintained or operated pursuant to a permit issued by the county.

Department means the state department of environmental protection, or any successor agency of the state performing the same or similar function as the department of environmental protection.

Disposal means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste into or upon any land or water so that such solid waste or any constituent thereof may enter other lands or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwaters, or otherwise enter the environment.

Enclosed facility means a solid waste management facility with a roof and having the entire area under the roof totally enclosed by opaque walls with no more than 20 percent of the total wall surface area having openings and no more than 50 percent of any one side wall surface area having openings.

Landfill means a solid waste disposal facility, which is an area of land or an excavation where wastes are or have been placed for disposal, for which a permit, other than a general permit, is required by state statute. This term shall not include:

(1)

A land spreading site;

(2)

A surface impoundment; or

(3)

An injection well as defined by rules of the department.

Permittee means a person holding a permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this article.

Person means any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, or association, and any municipal or private corporation organized or existing under the Laws of Florida or any other state or the federal government.

Processing means any technique designed to separate or change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any solid waste so as to render it safe for transport, amenable to recovery, storage or recycling, or reduced in volume or concentration.

Recovered materials means those materials which have known recycling potential, can be feasibly recycled, and have been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use or reuse, by separation, collection or processing.

Recycling means any process by which solid waste, or materials which would otherwise become solid waste, are collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products.

Resource recovery means the process of recovering materials or energy from solid waste, excluding those materials or solid waste under control of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Solid waste means garbage, refuse, yard trash, construction and demolition debris, white goods, special waste, ashes, sludge, or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural or governmental operations.

Solid waste disposal facility means any solid waste management facility which is the final resting place for solid waste, including landfills, incineration facilities that produce ash from the process of incinerating municipal solid waste, or any alternate technology designed to treat such waste to render it inert.

Solid waste management means the process by which solid waste is collected, transported, stored, separated, processed, or disposed of in any way, according to an orderly, purposeful, and planned program.

Solid waste management facility or facility means any solid waste disposal facility, volume reduction plant, materials recovery or recycling facility, transfer station or other facility, the purpose of which is the resource recovery or disposal, recycling, processing or storage of solid waste. Such term does not include facilities which use or ship recovered materials unless such facilities are generating solid waste as part of the recovery process.

Transfer station means a site the primary purpose of which is to store or hold solid waste for transport to a processing or disposal facility.

Unenclosed facility means a solid waste management facility not meeting the definition of an "enclosed facility."

Volume reduction plant means a pulverizer, grinder, compactor, shredding and baling plant, composting plant, or other plant which accepts and processes solid waste for recycling or disposal.

(Ord. No. 93-93, § 2, 10-19-93; Ord. No. 06-53, § 1, 6-20-06)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.