2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 5 - State Aid for Implementation of Resource Recovery and Other Improved Solid Waste Management Systems › 27-0501 - Definitions.

§ 27-0501. Definitions.
1.  "Collection  system  development  program"  means  a comprehensive
  review of existing solid waste collection practices and the  development
  of  designs  for efficient and cost-effective systems for the systematic
  collection of solid waste of one or more municipalities or  any  portion
  thereof.
2.  "Preparation  of  contract  documents"  means  the  preparation of
  documents for entering into contracts for (a) the design,  construction,
  operation,   financing,  ownership  or  maintenance  of  a  solid  waste
  management  facility;  (b)  a  system  of  collection  and  disposal  of
  municipal  solid  waste through resource recovery; and (c) the marketing
  of materials and energy recovered from solid waste. Such  documents  may
  include    detailed   construction   plans   and   specifications,   bid
  advertisements, requests for proposals and reports evaluating  bids  and
  proposals.
3.  "Implementation  feasibility  project" means the investigation and
  evaluation of any one or more of the following:  engineering,  economic,
  environmental,  technological, administrative, institutional, social and
  political  factors  affecting  the  acceptability  of  a   solid   waste
  management  facility  or  system  of  which the facility is part for the
  purpose of determining the feasibility  of  constructing  such  proposed
  facility or establishing such system.
4.  "Municipality"  means  a  village,  town,  city  or  county or any
  designated agency thereof, or any two or more of the foregoing which are
  acting jointly in connection with a solid waste management  facility,  a
  solid  waste management district, or a public benefit corporation having
  power granted otherwise than under this article  to  construct,  operate
  and  maintain  a  solid  waste  management  facility, including a public
  corporation created pursuant to agreement or compact with another state.
5. "Recycling center" means a community-based facility where separated
  solid waste can be stored, assembled and  prepared  for  sale  or  other
  disposition.
6.  "Resource  recovery" means the separation, extraction and recovery
  of useable materials, energy or heat from  solid  waste  through  source
  separation, recycling centers or other programs, projects or facilities.
7.  "Solid  waste"  means  all  materials  or  substances discarded or
  rejected as being spent, useless, worthless, or in excess to the  owners
  at  the  time of such discard or rejection, including but not limited to
  garbage, refuse, industrial and commercial waste, sludges  from  air  or
  water pollution control facilities or water supply treatment facilities,
  rubbish,   ashes,   contained  gaseous  material,  incinerator  residue,
  demolition and construction debris and offal, but not  including  sewage
  and other highly diluted water-carried materials or substances and those
  in gaseous form.
8.  "Solid  waste  management  facility"  means  any facility employed
  beyond the initial solid waste collection  process,  including  but  not
  limited to recycling centers, transfer stations, baling facilities, rail
  haul  or  barge  haul facilities, processing systems, including resource
  recovery facilities or other facilities for reducing solid waste volume,
  sanitary landfills, plants and facilities for compacting, composting  or
  pyrolization   of  solid  waste,  incinerators  and  other  solid  waste
  disposal, reduction or conversion facilities.
9. "Source separation" means the segregation of  recyclable  materials
  from  the  solid  waste  stream  at the point of generation for separate
  collection, sale or other disposition.
10. "Secondary materials"  means  those  commodities  that  have  been
  reclaimed  for  reuse and are used in place of a primary or raw material
  in manufacturing a product.