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What is Solid Waste

Solid waste means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water

supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded materials including

solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from industrial,

commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not

include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in

irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permit under33 USC 1342, as amended (86 Stat. 880), or source, special nuclear or by-product material

as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923) except as may be

provided by existing agreements between the State of New York and the government of the

United States (see section 360-1.3 of this Part).

In Simple Words - Solid wastes are any discarded or abandoned materials. Solid wastes

can be solid, liquid, semi-solid or containerized gaseous material.

Examples of solid wastes include the following materials when discarded:

• waste tires

•septage

• scrap metal

• latex paints

• furniture and toys

• garbage



• appliances and vehicles

• oil and anti-freeze

• empty aerosol cans, paint cans and compressed gas cylinders

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construction and demolition debris, asbestosA material is discarded if it is abandoned by being:

• disposed of;

• burned or incinerated, including being burned as a fuel for the purpose of recovering

usable energy; or

• accumulated, stored or physically, chemically or biologically treated (other than

burned or incinerated) instead of or before being disposed of.

A material is disposed of if it is: Discharged, deposited, injected, dumped, spilled, leaked

or placed into or on any land or water so that such material or any constituent thereof may

enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into groundwater or surface

water.

Construction and demolition (C&D) debris means:

Uncontaminated solid waste resulting from the construction, remodeling, repair and

demolition of utilities, structures and roads; and uncontaminated solid waste resulting from

land clearing. Such waste includes, but is not limited to bricks, concrete and other masonry

materials, soil, rock, wood (including painted, treated and coated wood and wood products),

land clearing debris, wall coverings, plaster, drywall, plumbing fixtures, non-asbestos

insulation, roofing shingles and other roof coverings, asphaltic pavement, glass, plastics that

are not sealed in a manner that conceals other wastes, empty buckets ten gallons or less in

size and having no more than one inch of residue remaining on the bottom, electrical wiring

and components containing no hazardous liquids, and pipe and metals that are incidental to

any of the above. Solid waste that is not C&D debris (even if resulting from the construction,

remodeling, repair and demolition of utilities, structures and roads and land clearing)



includes, but is not limited to asbestos waste, garbage, corrugated container board,

electrical fixtures containing hazardous liquids such as fluorescent light ballasts or

transformers, fluorescent lights, carpeting, furniture, appliances, tires, drums, containers

greater than ten gallons in size, any containers having more than one inch of residue

remaining on the bottom and fuel tanks.

Specifically excluded from the definition of construction and demolition debris is solid waste

(including what otherwise would be construction and demolition debris) resulting from any

processing technique, other than that employed at a department-approved C&D debris

processing facility, that renders individual waste components unrecognizable, such as

pulverizing or shredding. Also, waste contained in an illegal disposal site may be considered

C&D debris if the department determines that such waste is similar in nature and content to

C&D debris.

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