Los Angeles County Countywide Integrated Waste Management

Buy-Back Recycling Center
Capital Costs
Class III Landfill
Commercial Solid Wastes
Commingle
Commingled Recyclables
Compactor
Compactor - Mobile
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
A facility which pays a fee for the delivery and transfer
of ownership to the facility of source separated
materials, for the purose of recycling or composting.
Those direct costs incured in order to acquire real
propert assets such as land, buildings and building
additions, site improvements, machinery and equipment.
Those facilities which must be located where site
characteristics and contanment strctues isolate solid
waste from the waters of the State. "Class III Landfills"
must meet the requirements of the Federal Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act, Subtitle D, and the
CCR, Title 23, Section 2533, as well as those mandated
by Sections 17000 et seq., of Title 14 of the CCR and
other regional and local rules and regulations.
Solid waste originating from stores, husiness offces,
commercial warehouses, hospitals, educational, health
care, milita, and correctional institutions, nonprofit
research organizations, and governent offces.
Commercial solid wastes do not include constrction and
demolition waste.
A mix of empty beverage containers and other container .
of the same material tye. Any broken glass of empty
beverage contaner(s) is deemed commingled..
Commingled rates are determined by DOC Division of
Recycling pursuat to subsections 2750 and 2770 of
Chapter 5 of Division 2 of Title 14 of Californa Code of
Reguations.
A mixtue of several recyclable materials In one
contaer.
A tye of trash contaer which can be moved on and off
a roll-off trck. The contaners have the capability of
hydrulically compressing materials with the contaner.
A vehicle with an enclosed body contanig mechanical
devices tht convey solid waste into the main
comparent of the body and compress it.
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