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Appendix A Definitions
<br />1) Electronic Waste consists of electronic products that were used for data processing,
<br />telecommunications, or entertainment in private households and businesses that are now
<br />considered obsolete, broken, or irreparable.
<br />2) Household Hazardous Waste means waste generated from household activity that exhibits
<br />characteristics of or that is listed as hazardous waste under Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
<br />rules, but does not include waste from commercial activities that is generated, stored, or present in
<br />a household.
<br />3) In-Kind Contribution includes volunteer labor hours calculated at a rate of $10.00 per hour.
<br />4) Major Appliances means clothes washers and dryers, dishwashers, hot water heaters, heat
<br />pumps, furnaces, garbage disposals, trash compactors, microwave ovens, ranges, stoves, air
<br />conditioners, dehumidifiers, refrigerators, and freezers.
<br />5) Organics refers to materials that come from nature, living or dead, that can decompose naturally in
<br />the environment. Materials such as yard and tree wastes, agricultural residues, or food scraps are
<br />considered organics.
<br />6) Problem Materials are materials that, when processed or disposed of with mixed municipal solid
<br />waste, contribute to one or more of the following results:
<br />• The release of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant as defined in MN § 1156;
<br />• Pollution of water as defined in MN § 115.01;
<br />• Air pollution as defined in MN § 116.06; or
<br />• A significant threat to the safe or efficient operation of a solid waste facility.
<br />7) Recycling means the process of collecting and preparing recyclable materials and reusing the
<br />materials in their original form or using them in manufacturing processes that do not cause the
<br />destruction of recyclable materials in a manner that precludes further use.
<br />8) Recycling Facilities means a facility at which materials are prepared for recycling in their original
<br />form or for use in manufacturing processes that do not cause the destruction of recyclable materials
<br />in a manner that precludes further use.
<br />9) Service Oriented Projects means those projects or services that result in a direct benefit to
<br />residents of Sherburne County.
<br />10) SCORE stands for the Governor's Select Committee on Recycling and the Environment and is a
<br />term given to monies collected via astate-wide tax on solid waste disposal that is collected and
<br />remitted to the State of Minnesota by haulers and is distributed to counties based upon population
<br />for the purposes identified in MN § 115A.557, Subd. 2.
<br />11) Solid Waste means garbage, refuse, sludge from a water supply treatment plant or air contaminant
<br />treatment facility, and other discarded waste materials and sludge's, in solid, semisolid, liquid, or
<br />contained gaseous form, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations,
<br />and from community activities, but does not include hazardous waste; animal waste used as
<br />fertilizer; earthen fill, water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste
<br />water effluents or discharges which are point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the
<br />Federal Water Pollution product material as defined by The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
<br />amended.
<br />12) Volunteer Hours means unpaid work and/or labor and shall be calculated at a rate of $10.00 per
<br />hour for the purposing of determining "In-Kind Contributions".
<br />13) Waste Reduction or Source Reduction means an activity that prevents generation of waste or the
<br />inclusion of toxic materials in waste, including:
<br />• Reusing a product in its original form;
<br />• Increasing the life span of a product;
<br />• Reducing materials or the toxicity of materials used in production or packaging; or changing
<br />procurement, consumption, or waste generation habits to result in smaller quantities of lower
<br />toxicity of waste generated.
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