Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-709 - CRITERIA FOR ORGANICS PROCESSING AND RECYCLING FACILITIES › Section 62-709.201 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
The definitions in Rule
				   62-701.200, F.A.C., apply to
				  this chapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. For purposes of
				  this chapter, the following words, phrases or terms shall have the following
				  meaning:
(1) "Anaerobic digestion"
				means the process by which biological decomposition of organic products is
				carried out under controlled anaerobic conditions, and that stabilizes the
				organic fraction into a material which can easily and safely be stored,
				handled, and used in an environmentally acceptable manner.
(2) "Animal byproducts" means
				source-separated organic solid waste that is animal in origin, such as meat,
				fat, dairy, or eggs, and is generated by commercial, institutional,
				agricultural, or industrial operations. This term includes waste generated by
				prison facilities, grocery stores, manufacturing or packaging plants, butcher
				shops, restaurants and abattoirs. This term also includes packaging that has
				come into contact with animal byproducts. These wastes will be viewed as
				putrescible waste in this chapter.
(3) "Beneficial use" means, for the purposes
				of this chapter, that readily-degradable organics are placed on or in the soils
				to provide a viable benefit, such as, reducing erosion and water loss,
				regulating soil temperature, preventing the growth of weeds, or serving as a
				soil amendment upon decomposition. Placement of materials for purposes of
				disposal is not considered to be a beneficial use.
(4) "Backyard composting" means the
				composting of organic solid waste, such as grass clippings, leaves or food
				waste, generated by a homeowner or tenant of a single or multi-family
				residential unit or an apartment complex unit, where composting occurs at that
				dwelling unit.
(5) "Clean wood"
				means wood, including lumber, tree and shrub trunks, branches, and limbs, that
				is free of paint, glue, filler, penthachlorophenol, creosote, tar, asphalt,
				chromated copper arsenate, other wood preservatives or treatments.
(6) "Compost" means solid waste which has
				undergone biological decomposition of organic matter, has been disinfected
				using composting or similar technologies, and has been stabilized to a degree
				that is potentially beneficial to plant growth and that is used or sold for use
				as a soil amendment, artificial top soil, growing medium amendment or other
				similar uses.
(7) "Composting"
				means the process by which biological decomposition of organic solid waste is
				carried out under controlled aerobic conditions, and that stabilizes the
				organic fraction into a material which can easily and safely be stored, handled
				and used in an environmentally acceptable manner. The presence of anaerobic
				zones within the composting material will not cause the process to be
				classified as other than composting.
(8) "Composting facility" means a solid waste
				management facility where solid waste is processed using composting technology.
				Processing may include physical turning, windrowing, aeration or other
				mechanical handling of organic matter.
(9) "Curing area" means an area where organic
				material that has undergone the rapid initial stage of composting is further
				stabilized into a humus-like material.
(10) "Disinfection" means the selective
				destruction of pathogens indicated by a reduction in indicator organism(s) as
				specified in paragraph
				 62-709.300(8)(a),
				F.A.C.
(11) "Foreign matter" means
				the inorganic and organic constituents in a solid waste stream that are not
				readily decomposed and that may be present in the compost. Foreign matter is
				metals, glass, plastics, rubber, bones, and leather, but does not include sand,
				grit, rocks or other similar materials.
(12) "Land reclamation" means the restoration
				of productivity to lands made barren through processes such as erosion, mining
				or land clearing.
(13) "Manure"
				means a solid waste composed of excreta of animals, and residual materials that
				have been used for bedding, sanitary or feeding purposes for such animals. For
				purposes of this chapter, manure does not include such material generated and
				managed by normal farming operations, but does include "paunch manure, " which
				is the undigested stomach content of cattle.
(14) "Maturity" means the degree of stability
				that has been achieved.
(15)
				"Mesophilic stage" means a biological stage in the composting process
				characterized by active bacteria which favor a moderate temperature range of
				20-45 degrees Celsius. It occurs later in a composting process after the
				thermophilic stage and is associated with a moderate rate of
				decomposition.
(16) "Motorized
				firefighting equipment" means equipment that can be used to control and
				extinguish fires such as fire trucks, front end loaders, and bull
				dozers.
(17) "Pre-consumer
				vegetative waste" means source-separated vegetative solid waste from
				commercial, institutional, industrial or agricultural operations that is not
				considered yard trash, and has not come in contact with animal products or
				byproducts or with the end user. This term includes material generated by
				grocery stores, packing houses, and canning operations, as well as products
				that have been removed from their packaging, such as out-of-date juice,
				vegetables, condiments, and bread. This term also includes associated packaging
				that is vegetative in origin such as paper or corn-starch based products, but
				does not include packaging that has come in contact with other materials such
				as meat. Plate scrapings are specifically excluded from this definition. These
				wastes are putrescible waste as defined in this chapter.
(18) "Putrescible waste" means solid waste
				that contains organic matter capable of being decomposed by microorganisms and
				of such a character and proportion as to be capable of attracting or providing
				food for birds. The term does not include uncontaminated yard trash or clean
				wood.
(19) "Recycling" means any
				process by which solid waste, or materials which would otherwise become solid
				waste, are collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in
				the form of raw materials or products.
(20) "Size-reduced" means the material has
				been processed so that it will pass through a 6-inch sieve or has been cut for
				firewood in no greater than 24 inch lengths.
(21) "Stabilized" means that biological and
				chemical decomposition of the wastes has ceased or diminished to a level so
				that such decomposition no longer poses a pollution, health, or safety hazard.
				The term means that biological decomposition of the waste that was composted or
				anaerobically digested has occurred to a sufficient degree that will allow
				beneficial use. As regards composting, it also means that the compost has at
				least passed through the thermophilic stage, and that biological decomposition
				of the solid waste has occurred to a sufficient degree that will allow
				beneficial use.
(22) "Thermophilic
				stage" means a biological stage in the composting process characterized by
				active bacteria which favor a high temperature range of 45-75 degrees Celsius.
				It occurs early in a composting process before the mesophilic stage and is
				associated with a high rate of decomposition.
(23) "Vector" means a carrier organism that
				is capable of transmitting a pathogen from one organism to another.
(24) "Vegetative waste" means
				source-separated organic solid waste that is vegetative in origin, and is
				generated by commercial, institutional, agricultural or industrial operations
				that is not considered yard trash. This term includes waste generated by
				grocery stores, prisons, restaurants, packing houses, and canning operations,
				as well as products that have been removed from their packaging, such as
				out-of-date juice, vegetables, condiments, and bread. This term also includes
				packaging that is vegetative in origin such as paper or corn-starch based
				products. These wastes are putrescible waste as defined in this chapter. Where
				the term is not used in conjunction with the term pre-consumer, it included
				vegetative waste that may have come in contact with the end user.
(25) "Yard trash" means vegetative matter
				resulting from landscaping maintenance or land clearing operations and includes
				materials such as tree and shrub trimmings, grass clippings, palm fronds, trees
				and tree stumps, and associated rocks and soils. For purposes of this chapter,
				it also includes clean wood.
(26)
				"Yard trash processing facility" means a yard trash transfer station or a
				facility at which yard trash is processed into a size-reduced, usable material
				or is composted, but does not include a facility used for the disposal of yard
				trash.
Rulemaking Authority
					 403.704,
					 403.7043 FS. Law Implemented
					 403.7043
					 FS.
New 2-15-10.