(1) "Bulky waste" means large items of refuse, such as appliances, furniture, and other oversize wastes which would typically not fit into reusable or disposable containers.

(2) "Clean wood" means dimensional lumber and wood pieces typically resulting from the demolition or construction of buildings, and wood pieces gathered as a by-product or waste from the manufacture of wood products which do not contain laminates or glues, and which have not been painted or treated with stain preservatives.

(3) "Contract hauler" means any person engaged in the business of solid waste handling under the authority of the Washington utilities transportation commission or under contract with any corporate municipality of the state of Washington.

(4) "Commercial" means any solid waste brought to a county solid waste disposal system facility for disposal by a company, corporation, business, firm, association, sole proprietorship, partnership, municipality, political subdivision, or government entity.

(5) "Compacted waste" means any solid waste whose volume has been reduced through mechanical means by compression from the original state.

(6) "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.

(7) "Dangerous waste" means any solid waste designated as dangerous waste by the department of ecology under chapter 173-303 WAC.

(8) "Director" means the director of the Snohomish County department of public works or his/her designated representative.

(9) "Disposal site" means the location where any final treatment, utilization, processing, or deposition of solid waste occurs.

(10) "Green waste" means yard waste which includes, but is not limited to, leaves, grass clippings, branches, brush, flowers, roots, sod and other organic debris commonly thrown away in the course of maintaining yards and gardens, and other biodegradable material approved by the director. It excludes plastics and synthetic fibers, lumber, any wood or tree limbs over six inches in diameter or 10 feet long, and petroleum contaminated soil.

(11) "Hard-to-handle waste" means any waste material which is difficult to transfer, transport, or dispose of at county owned and operated solid waste disposal system facilities without special processing including, but not limited to tires, fly ash, sheetrock, shingles, plywood squares, concrete, boulders, and stumps.

(12) "Hazardous waste" means any waste material defined as hazardous pursuant to Federal Public Law 94-580 (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) or as later amended and regulations thereunder, including explosives, medical wastes, radioactive wastes, pesticides, chemicals, burning materials, and other materials.

(13) "Health officer" means the health officer or his/her representative of the county health department.

(14) "Household" means all persons who occupy a housing unit (e.g., house or apartment), whether they are related to each other or not.

(15) "Income" means total gross income of people living in a household. This includes all income received from wages, interest from savings and bonds, annuities, dividends, social security, supplemental social security, retirement benefits, social security disability income, veterans benefits, Labor and Industry benefits, federal and state welfare benefits, IRA withdrawals, capital gains, income from rental property or boarders, and all other sources of income.

(16) "Infectious waste" means untreated solid waste that may create a significant risk of disease. This includes, but is not limited to, human blood and blood products, cultures and stocks containing wastes infectious to humans, human waste source biopsy material, tissues and anatomical parts from surgery, obstetrical procedures and autopsy, and "sharps waste" such as needles, scalpel blades, and lancets.

(17) "Liquid" means any waste material that is determined to contain "free liquids" as defined by method 9095 (paint filter liquids test) as described in "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical Methods", United States Environmental Protection Agency Publication SW-846.

(18) "Moderate Risk Waste" means:

(19) "Person" means any individual, firm, association, partnership, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, public or private corporation or any other entity.

(20) "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 (other than hog fuel), preparation of a fuel from solid waste, use of solid waste as alternative daily cover or use of solid waste as an industrial waste stabilizer.

(21) "Reclamation site" means a facility compliant with local, state and federal regulation 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.

(22) "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.

(23) "Recyclable construction demolition and land-clearing waste" means CDL waste material that is source separated at the site of origin and is recycled.

(24) "Salvaging" is a recovery process in which there is hand and/or mechanical segregation of solid waste to recover materials for sale and/or reuse and is done in a controlled and organized manner.

(25) "Scavenging" means the removal of materials at a disposal site, or interim solid waste handling site, without the approval of the owner or operator and the jurisdictional health department.

(26) "Senior citizen" means any permanent resident of Snohomish county who is 60 years of age or older.

(27) "Small quantity generator" means a business which generates less than 220 pounds of hazardous waste or 2.2 pounds of extremely hazardous waste per month and does not accumulate more than 2,200 pounds of hazardous waste.

(28) "Solid waste" means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, construction, demolition and land-clearing wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, and discarded commodities. This includes all solid and semisolid, materials which are not the primary products of public, private, industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations. Solid waste includes but is not limited to sludge from wastewater treatment plants and septage from septic tanks, wood waste, dangerous waste, and problem wastes.

(29) "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.

(30) "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.

(31) "Vactor wastes/street wastes" include liquid and solid wastes collected during maintenance of stormwater catch basins, detention/retention ponds, and roadside ditches and similar stormwater treatments and conveyance structures and solid wastes collected during street and parking lot sweeping.

(32) "Wood waste" means solid waste consisting of wood pieces or particles generated as a by-product or waste from the manufacturing of wood products, handling and storage of raw materials and trees and stumps. This includes but is not limited to sawdust, chips, shavings, bark, pulp, hog fuel, and log sort yard waste, but does not include wood pieces or particles containing chemical preservatives such as creosote, pentachlorophenol, or copper-chrome-arsenate. (Added by Ord. 90-022, May 14, 1990; Added by Ord. 92-104, Sept. 2, 1992; Amended by Ord. 93-134, Dec. 15, 1993, Eff date Dec. 25, 1993; Amended by Amended Ord. 94-100 § 4, Oct. 26, 1994; Amended by Ord. 95-069 § 2, Sept. 1, 1995, Eff date Sept. 1, 1995; Amended by Ord. 98-129 § 1, Nov. 23, 1998, Eff date Dec. 10, 1998; Amended by Ord. 03-115, Sept. 3, 2003, Eff date Sept. 14, 2003; Amended by Ord. 08-125, Nov. 10, 2008, Eff date Jan. 1, 2009; 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).