Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part VII - Solid Waste › Subpart 2 - Recycling › Chapter 103 - Recycling and Waste Reduction Rules › Section VII-10303 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The following
				  words, terms, and phrases, when used in conjunction with LAC 33:VII.Subpart 1,
				  shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Chapter, except where the
				  context clearly indicates a different meaning.
Elements of Nature
-acts of God.
Label
- a molded imprint or raised symbol
					 on or near the bottom of a plastic product.
Permit
- a written authorization issued by
					 the administrative authority to a person for the construction, installation,
					 modification, operation, closure of facilities used or intended to be used to
					 process, collect or transport waste tires in accordance with the Act, these
					 regulations, and specified terms and conditions.
Permittee/Permit Holder
- a person who is
					 issued a permit and is responsible for meeting all conditions of the permit and
					 these regulations at a facility.
Plastic Bottle
- a plastic container, that
					 has a neck that is smaller than the body of the container, accepts a
					 screw-type, snap cap, or other closure, and has a capacity of 16 fluid ounces
					 or more, but less than 5 gallons.
Premises
- a unit of land and/or
					 buildings, or any portion thereof. Property shall be considered as contiguous
					 parcels even if separated by a utility easement or road or railroad right of
					 way.
Process
- a method or technique, including
					 recycling, recovering, compacting (but not including compacting which occurs
					 solely within a transportation vehicle), composting, incinerating, shredding,
					 baling, recovering resources, pyrolyzing, or any other method or technique
					 designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or
					 composition of a solid waste to render it safer for transport; or a method to
					 reduce it in volume; or a method which renders it amenable for recovery,
					 storage, reshipment or resale.
Recovered Materials
- those materials
					 which have known recycling potential, can be feasibly recycled, and have been
					 diverted or removed from the solid waste stream, for sale, use, or reuse, by
					 separation, collection, or processing.
Recyclable Materials
- those materials
					 which are capable of being recycled and which would otherwise be processed or
					 disposed of as nonhazardous solid waste.
Recycled Content
- materials that contain
					 a percentage of post-consumer materials as determined by the department in the
					 products or materials to be procured, including but not limited to paper,
					 aluminum, glass, and composted materials.
Recycling
- any process by which
					 nonhazardous solid waste, or material which would otherwise become solid waste,
					 is collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form
					 of raw materials or products.
Rigid Plastic Container
- any formed or
					 molded container, other than a bottle, intended for single use, composed
					 predominantly of plastic resin, and having a relatively inflexible finite shape
					 or form with a capacity of 8 ounces or more but less than 5 gallons.
Speculative Accumulation of Recyclable
					 Materials
-the accumulation of recyclable materials for which no
					 current use, reuse, recycling or any reasonably anticipated future market for
					 the use, reuse, or recycling of the material exists.
White Goods
- inoperative and/or discarded
					 refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, and other similar domestic and
					 commercial appliances.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:2411-2422.