(1) "Agricultural wastes" means waste resulting from the production of farm or agricultural products including manures.

(2) "Approval" or "approved" by the county executive or authorized designee means an approval given after all other permitting processes have been completed.

(3) "Ashes" means the residue of burning of combustible materials.

(4) "Authorized designee" means the director of the department of public works of Snohomish County unless by order of the county executive another public official shall be designated to carry out such duties under this chapter.

(5) "Board of health" means the board of health of Snohomish county.

(6) "Chapter" shall mean chapter 7.35 SCC and amendments thereto.

(7) "Collecting agent" means any person involved in the collection and disposal of solid waste generated in the unincorporated areas of Snohomish County.

(8) "Composting" means the controlled microbial degradation of organic waste yielding a nuisance-free product.

(9) "Comprehensive Plan" or "Snohomish County Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan" means the plan heretofore adopted by Snohomish County by Resolution No. 82-004 adopted January 11, 1982 and approved by the department of ecology and any amendments thereto governing, among other things, the disposal of solid waste in Snohomish County.

(10) "Construction, demolition and land-clearing waste" (CDL wastes) means any recyclable or non-recyclable waste that results from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition of buildings, roads, or other structures, or from land-clearing for development, and that is removed from the site of construction, demolition or land clearing.

(11) "Council" means the county council of Snohomish County.

(12) "Department of ecology" means the Washington state department of ecology.

(13) "Director" means the director of the department of public works of Snohomish County.

(14) "Disposal site" means an approved site or sites where any final treatment, utilization, processing, or deposition of solid waste is permitted and occurs. This includes, but is not limited to, transfer stations and intermodal facilities (included as part of the disposal system of the county), sanitary landfills, incinerators, composting plants, and the location of a facility for the recovery of energy resources from solid wastes or the conversion of the energy in such wastes to more useful forms or combinations thereof.

(15) "Garbage" means and includes all putrescible wastes, except sewage and body wastes, including vegetables, animal offal and carcasses of dead animals, but not including recognized industrial by-products, and shall include all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.

(16) "Hazardous wastes" means and includes, but is not limited to, explosives, medical wastes, radioactive wastes, pesticides and chemicals which are potentially harmful to the public health or the environment.

(17) "Health department" means the county health department.

(18) "Health officer" means the health officer of the county health department.

(19) "Incineration" means the controlled combustion of solid waste that yields satisfactory nonputrescible residues and air effluents.

(20) "Incinerator" means a furnace and associated building designed to burn solid wastes under controlled conditions of more than 50-pounds-per-hour capacity.

(21) "Industrial wastes" means waste by-products of manufacturing and/or processing operations.

(22) "Inert waste" means material meeting the criteria for inert waste in WAC 173-350-990.

(23) "Intermodal container" means any fully enclosed or open-top container designed and destined for rail shipment that is closed and sealed with a security identification tag and is not opened during transit or at the intermodal facility.

(24) "Intermodal facility" means any facility at which intermodal containers of waste are transferred from trucks for rail shipment and at which the containers are not opened for further treatment, processing or consolidation of the waste prior to final disposal. Any intermodal facility currently in use by Snohomish County or hereafter created or contracted by it, is part of the Snohomish County solid waste disposal system.

(25) "Nuisance" means unlawfully doing an act, or failing to perform an act, which act or omission either unreasonably annoys, or injures, or unreasonably endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others or unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or could obstruct any navigable waterway or any publicly travelled place or unreasonably renders other persons, acting in good faith, insecure in their actions or the use of their property.

(26) "Open burning" means the burning of solid wastes in an open area, or pile, or in a barrel or furnace with inadequate controls which yields an unsatisfactory residue and an unsatisfactory air effluent.

(27) "Permit" means a solid waste disposal site permit issued by the health department at a site consistent with the comprehensive plan and approved as such by the county executive or authorized designee.

(28) "Person" is an individual, firm, association, co-partnership, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, public or private corporation, or any other entity whatsoever.

(29) "Processing" means the conversion of solid waste into a useful product or otherwise prepares solid waste for sale and reuse.

(30) "Putrescible material" means any organic material which will decompose and may give rise to foul-smelling, offensive products.

(31) "Reclamation" means the process conducted at a reclamation site which consists of hand and/or mechanical segregation of source separated recyclable solid waste for sale and reuse. Materials which can be removed through reclamation include but are not limited to paper, metal, glass, plastics, aggregates and wood waste processed for feedstock for new products or as hog fuel and used for energy recovery. Reclamation does not include combustion of solid waste, preparation of a fuel from solid waste (other than hog fuel), use of solid waste as alternative daily cover or use of solid waste as an industrial waste stabilizer.

(32) "Reclamation site" means a facility compliant with local, state and federal regulations used for the processing or the storage of reclaimed material. Reclamation sites do not include locations or facilities where wastes are initially generated, such as businesses, construction sites or demolition sites.

(33) "Recyclable materials" means those solid wastes that are separated from other wastes for anaerobic digestion, composting, recycling or reuse, including but not limited to papers, metals, glass, plastics, aggregates, fabrics, yard debris, food waste, manures, wood waste and other materials that are identified as recyclable material in the Snohomish County comprehensive solid waste management plan, and are recycled. Wood waste processed as hog fuel and used for energy recovery shall be considered a recyclable material for purposes of this chapter.

(34) "Recycling" means the transformation or remanufacturing of recyclable waste materials into usable or marketable materials for use other than landfill disposal, alternative daily cover, industrial waste stabilizer or incineration.

(35) "Resource recovery facility" means a facility for the recovery of energy resources from solid wastes or the conversion or processing of solid waste to a more useful form or a combination thereof.

(36) "Sanitary landfill" means a method of disposing of solid waste on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or safety, by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with a layer of earth at the conclusion of each day’s operation or at such more frequent intervals as may be necessary.

(37) "Solid waste" means all putrescible and non-putrescible wastes, whether in solid or in liquid form, except liquid-carried industrial wastes and sewage, and including garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, construction, demolition and land-clearing wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, digested sludge, vegetable or animal solid and semi-solid wastes, dead animals, and other discarded solid and semi-solid materials.

(38) "Solid waste disposal system facility" means a facility owned and operated by the solid waste division or a facility operated under contract with the solid waste division which performs activities identified as being part of the solid waste disposal system in the Snohomish County comprehensive solid waste management plan, which includes, but is not limited to, county owned and operated transfer stations and neighborhood recycling and disposal centers (drop boxes), and the county’s contracted intermodal facilities.

(39) "Solid waste handling" means the storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, and final disposal of solid waste.

(40) "Source separation" means the segregation of recyclable materials from other solid waste for the purpose of recycling, conducted by or for the generator of the materials on the premises at which they were generated. Source separation does not require that different types of recyclable materials be separated from each other.

(41) "Special wastes" means those solid wastes which require special handling either due to their posing a potential health hazard, or due to their bulky or abrasive nature which could damage transfer equipment, and which are designated as "special wastes" by the authorized designee.

(42) "Transfer station" means a staffed, fixed, supplemental, collection/transportation/disposal facility, used by collection agents, or other persons or route collection vehicles to deposit solid wastes into a larger transfer vehicle for transport to a disposal site. This does not include a detachable container or solid waste drop box. Any transfer station currently in use by Snohomish County or hereafter created by it is part of the Snohomish County solid waste disposal system.

(43) "Wood waste" means a by-product resulting from the handling and processing of wood, including, but not limited to, hog fuel, sawdust, shavings, chips, bark, small pieces of wood, stumps, limbs, or any other material composed largely of wood which has no significant commercial value at the time in question, but shall not include slash developed from logging operations unless disposed of on a different site. (Added by Ord. 83-151 § 1, Dec. 28, 1983; Amended by Amended Ord. 92-055, May 27, 1992; Amended by Amended Ord. 11-002, Feb. 16, 2011, Eff date Mar. 4, 2011; Amended by Amended Ord. 22-062, Oct. 26, 2022, Eff date Jan. 1, 2023).