Los Angeles County Countywide Integrated Waste Management
Los Angeles County Countywide Integrated Waste Management
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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