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Los Angeles County Countywide Integrated Waste Management

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Post Consumer Recycling<br />

Postconsumer <strong>Waste</strong> Material<br />

Processing<br />

Processing Station<br />

Procurement<br />

Program<br />

Purchase Preference<br />

Rate Structure<br />

Recovered Material<br />

GLOSSARY OF TERMS<br />

The reuse of materials separated from residential and<br />

commercial waste that has reached the consumer.<br />

Any product generated by a business or a consumer<br />

which ha served its intended end use, and which has<br />

been separated from solid waste for the puroses of<br />

collection, recycling, and disposition, and which does<br />

not include secondar waste material.<br />

The reduction,. separation, -recovery, conversion, or<br />

recycling of solid waste.<br />

See "Transfer or Processing Station."<br />

The process governents and businesses use to purchase<br />

a paricular product, or commodity.<br />

The full range of source reduction, recycling,<br />

composting, special waste, or household hazdous<br />

waste activities underten by or in the jursdiction or<br />

relating to management of the jursdiction's waste<br />

stream to achieve the objectives identified in the SRR<br />

and HHWE, respectively. .<br />

A preference provided to a wholesale or retail<br />

commodity dealer which is based upon the percentage .<br />

amount that the costs of products made from recycled<br />

materials may exceed that of similar non-recycled<br />

products and stil be deemed the lowest bid.<br />

Tht set of prices estblished by a jursdiction, a special<br />

distrct (as defined in Governent Code Section 56036),<br />

or other rate settng authority to compensate the<br />

jurisdiction, special distrct or rate setting authority for<br />

the parial or ful costs of the collection, processing,_<br />

recycling, composting, and/or tranformation or landfill<br />

disposal of solid wastes.<br />

Material that has been retreved or diverted from<br />

disposal or transformation for the purose of recycling,<br />

reuse, or composting. "Recovered material" does not<br />

include those materials generated from and reused on<br />

site for manufactung puroses.<br />

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