Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 22a - Environmental Protection › 241b - Designated Recycling › Section 22a-241b-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
(1) "Boxboard" means a lightweight paperboard
			 made from a variety of recovered fibers having sufficient folding properties
			 and thickness to be used to manufacture folding or set-up boxes such as cereal
			 boxes and shoe boxes. As used in this section, "Boxboard" does not include
			 paperboard that has been treated with a wax or laminate coating nor any
			 removable plastic liners.
(2)
			 "Cardboard" means corrugated boxes and similar corrugated and kraft paper
			 materials which have a minimum of contamination by food or other
			 material.
(3) "Colored ledger
			 paper" means uncoated, printed or unprinted colored ground-wood-free ledger,
			 bond, writing, and other paper which has similar fiber and filler
			 content.
(4) "Glass food container"
			 means a glass bottle or jar of any size or shape used to package food products
			 suitable for human or animal consumption.
(5) "High density polyethylene container" or
			 "HDPE container" means a plastic container that, exclusive of closure or label,
			 is composed of high density polyethylene with a density of 0.94 grams per cubic
			 centimeter or greater, and has an ASTM Resin Identification Number of 2 as
			 defined in ASTM D7611 Standard Practice for Coding Plastic Manufactured
			 Articles for Resin Identification. As used in this section, "High density
			 polyethylene container" does not include containers which contained motor oil,
			 pesticides, herbicides or other hazardous substances.
(6) "Intermediate processing center" means a
			 facility which can recycle an item or items and market or deliver for reuse the
			 resulting material product or products. Such facilities may be owned by public
			 or private entities or combinations thereof and may offer service on a state,
			 regional, municipal, or submunicipal level.
(7) "Leaves" means the foliage of
			 trees.
(8) "Local processing
			 system" means a facility or technique authorized by a municipality and
			 acceptable to the commissioner which can recycle an item or items and market or
			 deliver for reuse the resulting material product or products.
(9) "Magazines" means coated periodicals,
			 catalogues, and similar printed materials which may contain a small percentage
			 of uncoated newstype paper.
(10)
			 "Market" means to sell or deliver a recyclable item to a consumer who will
			 reuse it or dispose of it for reuse in a material product.
(11) "Metal food container" means an
			 aluminum, bi-metal, steel, tin-plated steel, or other metallic can, plate or
			 tray of any size or shape used to package food products suitable for human or
			 animal consumption.
(12)
			 "Newspaper" means used or discarded newsprint which has a minimum of
			 contamination by food or other material.
(13) "Office paper" means used or discarded
			 high-grade white paper and manila paper including, but not limited to, paper
			 utilized for file folders, tab cards, writing, typing, printing, computer
			 printing, and photocopying, which is suitable for recycling and which has a
			 minimum of contamination.
(14)
			 "Plastic Container" means any plastic packaging having a relatively inflexible
			 finite shape or form, with a maximum capacity of three fluid gallons or its
			 equivalent volume, that is capable of maintaining its shape while holding other
			 products, including, but limited to, bottles, cartons and other
			 receptacles.
(15) "Polyethylene
			 terephthalate container", "PET container", or "PETE container" means a plastic
			 container that, exclusive of closure or label, is composed of polyethylene
			 terephthalate, a saturated thermoplastic polyester resin and has an ASTM Resin
			 Identification Number of 1 as defined in ASTM D7611 Standard Practice for
			 Coding Plastic Manufactured Articles for Resin Identification. As used in this
			 section, "Polyethylene terephthalate container" does not include containers
			 which held motor oil, pesticides, herbicides or other hazardous
			 substances.
(16) "Recycle" for the
			 purposes of sections 22a-24lb-1 to 22a-24lb-4, inclusive, of the Regulations of
			 Connecticut State Agencies means to separate or divert an item or items from
			 the solid waste stream for the purposes of processing it or causing it to be
			 processed into a material product, including the production of compost, in
			 order to provide for disposition of the item or items in a manner, other than
			 incineration or landfilling, which will best protect the environment. Nothing
			 in this definition shall preclude the use of waste oil as fuel in an oil
			 burner.
(17) "Regional processing
			 center" means an intermediate processing center which is authorized by a group
			 of municipalities or designated by the commissioner which can recycle an item
			 or items and market the resulting material product or products.
(18) "Residential high-grade white paper"
			 means uncoated, printed or unprinted white groundwood-free ledger, bond,
			 writing, and other paper that has similar fiber and filler content generated in
			 a household setting.
(19) "Scrap
			 metal" means used or discarded items which consist predominantly of ferrous
			 metals, aluminum, brass, copper, lead, chromium, tin, nickel, or alloys
			 thereof, including, but not limited to, white goods and metal food
			 containers.
(20) "Storage
			 batteries" means lead acid batteries or other batteries used in motor vehicles
			 such as automobiles, airplanes, boats, recreational vehicles, tractors and like
			 applications.
(21) "Waste oil"
			 means crankcase oil that has been utilized in internal combustion
			 engines.