Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 8 - ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (§§ 8-1-101 — 8-15-119) › Chapter 6 - DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTES AND OTHER REFUSE (§§ 8-6-201 — 8-6-2019) › Subchapter 6 - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RECYCLING FUND ACT (§§ 8-6-601 — 8-6-616) › Section 8-6-603 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"Commission" means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission;
(2)
"Landfill" means all landfills permitted under the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, §
8-6-201
et seq., except those permitted landfills operated by a regulated public utility for ash generated by the combustion of coal to produce electric energy;
(3)
(A)
"Mill scale and slag" means byproducts that are a result of the steel manufacturing process that are managed as items of value in a controlled manner and used in a manner of beneficial reuse.
(B)
"Mill scale and slag" does not include byproducts that are a result of the steel manufacturing process that would otherwise qualify as hazardous waste or that are determined to be discarded materials;
(4)
"Permittee" means any individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, local solid waste authority, institution, county, city, town, or municipal authority or trust, venture, or other legal entity holding a solid waste disposal permit as provided in the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, §
8-6-201
et seq.;
(5)
"Recycling" means the systematic collection, sorting, decontamination, and return of waste materials to commerce as commodities for use or exchange;
(6)
(A)
"Solid waste" means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities.
(B)
"Solid waste" does not include:
(i)
Solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage;
(ii)
Solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permit under
33 U.S.C. § 1342
;
(iii)
Source material, special nuclear material, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Pub. L. No. 83-703; or
(iv)
Mill scale and slag;
(7)
"Solid waste disposal permit" means a permit issued by the State of Arkansas under the provisions of the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, §
8-6-201
et seq., for the construction and operation of a landfill waste disposal facility;
(8)
"Solid waste management" means the management of, but is not limited to, the storage, collection, transfer, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, and final disposal of solid waste, including, but not limited to, the prevention, reduction, or recycling of wastes;
(9)
"Solid waste management plan" means a plan which is developed according to the provisions of the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, §
8-6-201
et seq., and guidelines of the Division of Environmental Quality, and which is subject to approval by the division;
(10)
"Solid waste reduction activities" means other activities that divert materials from landfills for reuse, including without limitation:
(A)
Using waste items as raw materials in a production process, such as adding shingles to asphalt mix for paving;
(B)
Using waste items to produce an end product without recycling, such as returning wood chips to citizens as mulch;
(C)
Using waste items as fuel, such as burning wood chips or tire chips in a waste-to-fuel process; or
(D)
Other activities as approved by the division; and
(11)
"Transporter" or "solid waste transporter" means any individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, local solid waste authority, institution, county, city, town, or municipal authority or trust, venture, or other legal entity transporting solid waste within the state that is to be disposed of outside the state.
Amended by Act 2021, No. 74,§ 4, eff. 7/28/2021.
Amended by Act 2021, No. 74,§ 3, eff. 7/28/2021.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 2627, eff. 7/1/2019.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 2626, eff. 7/1/2019.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 2625, eff. 7/1/2019.
Acts 1989, No. 849, § 3; 1989, No. 934, § 3; 1991, No. 755, § 1; 1993, No. 1127, § 3; 1995, No. 511, § 1; 1999, No. 1164, § 69; 2011, No. 819, § 2.