New Jersey § 13:1e-3

§ 13:1e-3.

As used in the provisions of P.L.1970, c. 39 ( C.13:1E-1 et seq. ) : “ Solid waste ” means garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials resulting from industrial,

commercial and agricultural operations, and from domestic and community activities,

and shall include all other waste materials including liquids, except for source separated recyclable materials or source separated food waste collected by livestock producers approved by the State Department of Agriculture to collect, prepare and feed such wastes to livestock on their own farms. “ Solid waste collection ” means the activity related to pick-up and transportation of solid waste from its

source or location to a solid waste facility or other destination . “ Disposal ” means the storage, treatment, utilization, processing, resource recovery of, or

the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any solid

or hazardous waste into or on any land or water, so that the solid or hazardous waste

or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or

discharged into any waters, including groundwaters. “ Solid waste management ” includes all activities related to the collection or disposal of solid waste by any person engaging in any such process. “ Council ” means the Advisory Council on Solid Waste Management. “ Department ” means the Department of Environmental Protection. “ Commissioner ” means the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection. “ Solid waste facilities ” means and includes the plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, constructed

or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by , or on behalf of, any person , public authority or county pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1970, c. 39 ( C.13:1E-1 et seq. ) or any other act, including transfer stations, incinerators, resource recovery facilities,

sanitary landfill facilities or other plants for the disposal of solid waste, and

all vehicles, equipment and other real and personal property and rights therein and

appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the collection or disposal of

solid waste in a sanitary manner. “ Public authority ” means a municipal or county utilities authority created pursuant to the “municipal and county

utilities authorities law,” P.L.1957, c. 183 ( C.40:14B-1 et seq. ); a county improvement authority created pursuant to the “county improvement authorities

law,” P.L.1960, c. 183 ( C.40:37A-44 et seq. ) ; a pollution control financing authority created pursuant to the “New Jersey Pollution

Control Financing Law,” P.L.1973, c. 376 ( C.40:37C-1 et seq. ); or any other public body corporate and politic created for solid waste management

purposes in any county , pursuant to the provisions of any law. “ Hackensack Meadowlands District ” means the area within the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission created pursuant to the provisions of the “Hackensack Meadowlands Reclamation

and Development Act,” P.L.1968, c. 404 ( C.13:17-1 et seq. ). “ Hackensack Commission ” means the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission created pursuant to the provisions of the “Hackensack Meadowlands Reclamation

and Development Act,” P.L.1968, c. 404 ( C.13:17-1 et seq. ). “ Public sewage treatment plant ” means any structure or structures required to be approved by the department pursuant

to P.L.1977, c. 224 ( C.58:12A-1 et seq. ) or P.L.1977, c. 74 ( C.58:10A-1 et seq. ), by means of which domestic wastes are subjected to any artificial process in order

to remove or so alter constituents as to render the waste less offensive or dangerous

to the public health, comfort or property of any of the inhabitants of this State,

before the discharge of the plant effluent into any of the waters of this State;

this definition includes plants for the treatment of industrial wastes, as well as

a combination of domestic and industrial wastes. “ Resource recovery ” means the collection, separation, recycling and recovery of metals, glass, paper

and other materials for reuse; or the incineration of solid waste for energy production

and the recovery of metals and other materials for reuse. “ Resource recovery facility ” means a solid waste facility constructed and operated for the incineration of solid

waste for energy production and the recovery of metals and other materials for reuse;

or a mechanized composting facility, or any other solid waste facility. “ Sanitary landfill facility ” means a solid waste facility at which solid waste is deposited on or in the land

as fill for the purpose of permanent disposal or storage for a period exceeding six

months, except that it shall not include any waste facility approved for disposal

of hazardous waste. “ Transfer station ” means a solid waste facility at which solid waste is transferred from a solid waste

collection vehicle to a registered solid waste haulage vehicle, including a rail car, for transportation to an offsite

sanitary landfill facility, resource recovery facility, or designated out-of-state disposal site for disposal .