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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Transfer or Processing Station<br />
Transformation Facilty<br />
Unclassifed Landfill<br />
Used Beverage Containers (UBC)<br />
GLOSSARY OF TERMS<br />
Those facilities utilized to receive solid wastes,<br />
temporaly store, separate, convert, or otherwse process<br />
the materials in the solid wases, or to trfer the solid<br />
wastes directly from smaller .to larger vehicles for<br />
trsport, and those facilties utilzed for mmformation.<br />
"Trafer or processing station" does not include any of<br />
the followig: (1) a facilty, whose principal fuction is<br />
to receive, store, convert, or otherwse process in<br />
accordace with state minium stadards; manure; (2) a<br />
facility, whose pricipal fuction is to receive, store,<br />
convert, or otherwse process vvastes vvhich have akeady<br />
been separated for reuse and are not intended for<br />
disposa; (3) the operations premises of a duly licensed<br />
solid waste handling operator who receives, stores,<br />
transfers, or otherwse processes waste as an activity<br />
incidenta to the conduct of a refuse collection and<br />
disposa business in accordance with regulations adopted<br />
pursuat to Section 43309 of the PRC.<br />
A facilty whose principal fuction is to convert,<br />
combust, or otherwse process solid waste by<br />
incineration, pyrolysis, destrctive distilation, or<br />
gasification, or to chemically or biologically process<br />
solid wastes, for the purose of volume reduction,<br />
synthetic fuel production, or energy recovery.<br />
Transformation facility does not include a composting<br />
facilty .<br />
A solid waste landfill which is permitted to accept inert<br />
waste only. Section 18700 of Title 14 and Section 2524<br />
of Title 23 of the CCR define inert waste as that type of<br />
non-liquid solid waste which does not contan hazdous<br />
waste or soluble pollutats at concentrations in excess of<br />
applicable water quality objectives established by a<br />
Californa Regional Water Quaity Control Board and<br />
does not conta significant quatities of decomposable<br />
waste. . Inert waste includes materials such as soil,<br />
concrete, asphalt, and other constction and demolition<br />
debris. "Unclassified Landfills" must be designed and<br />
operated in accordance with all laws and regulations<br />
mandated by State, regional, and local jursdictions.<br />
Conventional usage applies only to aluminum used<br />
beverage contaners.<br />
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