Sec. 70-31Definitions

For the purpose of these regulations the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:

Collector means a person who under formal agreement, verbal or written, with or without remuneration, does the work of collecting and/or hauling solid wastes.

Disposal area means the designated public landfill.

Garbage means food waste, including waste accumulation of animal or vegetable matter used for or intended for food, or that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in, or storing of meat, fowl, fruit, or vegetables.

Hazardous waste means material in a solid or semi-solid state resulting from the manufacture or use of pesticides or drugs other than normal household use, pathological wastes, chemical wastes, flammable or explosive material, and similar waste material in a solid or semi-solid state, that the administrative officer may consider a likely hazard to the public health or safety, except radioactive waste materials, as provided in the rules of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources—Rules and Regulations of Solid Waste Management, Chapter 391-1-1.

Industrial waste or industrial solid waste means the solid waste materials from factories, processing plants, and manufacturing enterprises, and including food processing wastes, meat and poultry processing wastes, condemned food, ashes and cinders from power plants, agriculture products wastes, land clearance wastes, and similar wastes.

Premises means land, buildings, or other structures, vehicles, water craft, or parts thereof, upon or in which solid waste is stored.

Rubbish means a variety of combustible waste not subject to rapid decomposition derived from places of residence, commercial areas, and institutions and shall include paper, rags, plastics, cartons, boxes, tree and yard trimmings, furniture, appliances, metals, minerals, cans, bottles, glass, crockery, excelsior, bedding, rubber, discarded clothing, and similar materials.

Scavenging means uncontrolled picking from discarded solid waste materials.

Solid waste means putrescible and nonputrescible waste, except human body waste, and including garbage, rubbish, paper, cartons, boxes, wood, tree branches, yard trimmings, furniture, appliances, metals, tin cans, glass, crockery, tunnage, ashes, street refuse, dead animals, waste materials generated in industrial operations, residue incineration, food processing wastes, demolition wastes, construction wastes, and any other wastes in a solid or semi-solid state not defined in this section.

Waste means unwanted or discarded material except human body waste.