§340A-1  Definitions.  As used in this
chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:



“Agency” means any department, office or board
or commission of the state or county government which is a part of the
executive branch of that government.



“Agricultural solid waste” means the solid
waste that results from the rearing of animals and the harvesting of crops.



“Collector” means any person or governmental
agency which has been licensed to remove refuse in accordance with applicable
ordinances and regulations.



“County” shall include each county of the
State, including the city and county of Honolulu.



“Director” means the director of the department
of health.



“Generator” means any person or governmental
agency which generates solid waste.



“Incinerator” means an engineered combustion
device specifically designed for volume reduction by controlled burning of
combustible solid waste.



“Landfill” means a land area used for the
disposal of solid waste.



“Operator” means any person or governmental
agency which accepts solid waste for processing, disposing, or transferring at
an incinerator, landfill site, resource recovery facility or transfer station.



“Owner” means any person or governmental agency
which shall have title to solid waste.



“Resource recovery facility” means a facility
in which solid waste is reprocessed into new products in such manner that
original products lose their identity.



“Solid waste” means garbage, refuse and other
discarded solid materials, including solid waste materials resulting from
industrial and commercial operations, and from community activities.  Solid
waste does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other
substances in water sources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in
industrial waste effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or
other water pollutants.  This definition is also intended to include liquid
waste materials such as waste oil, paints, and solvents.



“Source separated waste” means recyclable waste
materials which are set aside at their point of generation for segregated
collection and transport to specialized waste processing sites or final
manufacturing markets.



“Transfer station” means a supplemental
transportation facility used as an adjunct to solid waste route collection
vehicles, which facility may be fixed or mobile and may include recompaction of
solid waste. [L 1976, c 184, pt of §2; am L 1979, c 151, §2]



 



Revision Note



 



  Numeric designations deleted and definitions rearranged.