Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 140 - Waste and Materials Management › Subchapter 20 - Recycling and Special Waste › Part 2 - Rules and Regulations for Reduction and Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste › Section 250-RICR-140-20-2.5 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. For the purposes of these regulations,
				  except as provided below, the following terms shall have the following
				  meanings:
1. "Arrangements" means the process
				  by which cities and towns plan for, implement and carry out the separation,
				  weighing, collecting, hauling and disposal of municipal solid waste and
				  recyclable materials.
2.
				  "Corporation" means the Resource Recovery Corporation, previously known as the
				  Rhode Island Solid Waste Management Corporation.
3. "Department" means the Rhode Island
				  Department of Environmental Management.
4. "Director" means the Director of the
				  Department of Environmental Management.
5. "HDPE" means high density polyethylene
				  plastics labeled with a # 2 recycling symbol in accordance with standards
				  established by the plastics industry.
6. "Implementation date" means the date by
				  which the Department and a city or town specify that the city or town shall be
				  in compliance with these Rules and Regulations.
7. "Leaf and yard waste" means seasonal
				  deposition of leaves from deciduous and coniferous trees and shrubbery, grass
				  clippings, weeds, herbaceous garden waste, shrub and tree prunings, and
				  brush.
8. "Materials recovery
				  facility" or "MRF" means a facility consisting of structures, machinery, or
				  devices utilized to sort, bale, or otherwise process source-segregated
				  recyclables, prior to conveyance to market outlets.
9. "Municipal recycling program" means a
				  recycling program for the separation of municipal solid waste as included in
				  the implementation schedule and approved by the Department pursuant to these
				  regulations.
10. "Municipal solid
				  waste" means that solid waste generated by the residents of a municipality in
				  the course of their daily living, the disposal of which the governing body of
				  the municipality has undertaken and controls in the discharge of its duties to
				  protect the health of the municipality. Municipal solid waste does not include
				  solid waste generated by residents of a municipality in the course of their
				  employment or that generated by any manufacturing or commercial
				  enterprise.
11. "PETE" means
				  polyethylene terephthalate plastics labeled with a #1 recycling symbol in
				  accordance with standards established by the plastics industry.
12. "Processable material" means those
				  recyclable materials that meets criteria of purity and condition as defined by
				  the Corporation and the Department in conjunction with the operator of the
				  MRF.
13. "Recyclable materials"
				  means those materials which shall be separated from municipal solid waste for
				  processing for reuse as listed in §
											2.15 of this
				  Part.
14. "Resident" means of a
				  city or town means anyone residing in that municipality for any period of
				  time.
15. "Segregated municipal
				  solid waste" means municipal solid waste that has been separated into
				  recyclable and non-recyclable materials in compliance with these regulations
				  and the Rules and Regulations for Solid Waste Management Facilities and Organic
				  Waste Management Facilities (Subchapter 05 Part 1 of this Chapter).
16. "Solid waste" means garbage, refuse and
				  other discarded materials generated by residential, institutional, commercial,
				  industrial and agricultural sources but does not include solids or dissolved
				  material in domestic sewage or sewage sludge, nor does it include hazardous
				  waste as defined in the Hazardous Waste Management Act, R.I. Gen. Laws §
											23-19.1-4(4), nor
				  does it include used asphalt, concrete, portland concrete cement, or tree
				  stumps. Solid waste shall also include non-hazardous liquid, semi-solid and
				  containerized gaseous waste, subject to any special conditions of the Office of
				  Waste Management Office of Land Revitalization and Sustainable Materials
				  Management's Rules and Regulations for Solid Waste Management Facilities and
				  Organic Waste Management Facilities (Subchapter 05 Part 1 of this
				  Chapter).
17. "Source separation"
				  means the segregation of recyclable materials from other solid waste beginning
				  at the point of generation, by using containers or other receptacles to
				  maintain marketability before delivery to a solid waste management facility,
				  intermediate processing facility, or a materials recovery facility.