§ 94-2. Definitions.

In addition to the terms defined in Chapter 91 and Connecticut General Statutes Section 22a-207 and unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:

ACCEPTABLE SOLID WASTE

Unwanted or discarded materials of the kind normally collected or disposed of or caused to be collected or disposed of by or on behalf of a municipality through private or municipal collection and commercial, governmental and light industrial waste for which a municipality is required by state law to make provisions for the safe and sanitary disposal thereof, but not including in any case special handling waste or bulky solid waste.

BULKY SOLID WASTE

Solid waste comprised of land-clearing debris and waste resulting directly from demolition and construction activities which can be disposed of in a landfill holding a permit issued by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection under Section 22a-208y of the Connecticut General Statutes and following of its regulations or any successor provisions.

HAZARDOUS WASTE

Pathological, biological, cesspool or other human wastes, human and animal remains, radioactive, toxic and other hazardous wastes which, according to federal, state or local rules or regulations from time to time in effect, require special handling in their collection, treatment or disposal, including those regulated under 42 U.S.C. §§ 6921, through 6925 and regulations thereunder adopted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 90 Stat 2806, 42 U.S.C. § 6901, such as cleaning fluids, crankcase oils, cutting oils, paints, acids, caustics, poisons, drugs, fine powdery earth used to filter cleaning fluid and refuse of similar nature.

SPECIAL HANDLING WASTE

A. 

Hazardous waste.

B. 

Dirt, concrete and other nonburnable construction material and demolition debris, such as, but not limited to, sheetrock, ceramic tile, asphalt shingles).

C. 

Large items of machinery and equipment, such as motor vehicles and major components thereof, agricultural equipment, trailers and marine vessels and any other item of waste exceeding six feet in any one of its dimensions or being in whole or in part of a solid mass, the solid mass portion of which has dimensions such that a sphere with a diameter of eight inches could be contained within such solid mass portion, including, in the context of deliveries to the disposal facility, bulky solid waste.

D. 

Explosives, ordinance materials, oil, sludges, highly flammable substances, hazardous chemicals, tires and other materials, the acceptance of which, in the judgment of the Director, reasonably exercised, is likely to cause damage to or adversely affect the operation of the disposal facility, constitute a threat to health or safety or violate or cause the violation of any applicable federal, state or local law, regulation or judicial or administrative decision or order.

Amended 2-24-2009