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"Screenings" are the materials such as sticks and rags removed from <br />sewage by bar screens with two-inch openings. <br /> <br />"Secondary materials" are the marketable or usable products derived <br />from solid or hazardous waste through processing or separation. <br /> <br />"Sewage sludge" means the solid and associated liquids in municipal <br />wastewater that are encountered and concentrated by a municipal <br />wastewater treatment plant for disposal at a sewage sludge disposal <br />facility. Se--~-~udge do~-~n~-6 includ~-i~cinerator residues and <br />grit~ scum, screenings removed from other solids during treatment. <br /> <br />"Sewage sludge disposal facility" means property owned or leased by ~ <br />political subdivision and used for interim or final d~sposal or <br />landspreading of sewage sludge. <br /> <br />"Solid waste" is garbage, refuse and other discarded solid <br />materials. It includes solid waste materials resulting from <br />industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and from <br />community activities. Solid waste does not include animal waste used <br />as fertilizer; earthen fill, boulders, rock and other materials <br />normally handled in construction operations; solids or dissolved <br />material in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water <br />resources, such as silt; dissolved or suspended solids in industrial <br />wastewater effluents; dissolved materials in irrigation return flows; <br />or other common water pollutants (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, <br />Solid Waste Regulation No. 1). <br /> <br />"Solid waste management" means the systematic administration of <br />activities that provide for the collection, source separation, <br />storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment and disposal <br />of solid waste. <br /> <br />"Source separation" is the setting aside of recyclable waste mate- <br />rials (such as paper, glass and metal containers) at their point of <br />generation by the generator. <br /> <br />"Special wastes" are nonhazardous solid wastes that require handling <br />different from that normally used for municipal solid waste. <br /> <br />"Storage" or "holding" means containment of solid or hazardous waste, <br />in an approved manner, after generation and before collection for <br />ultimate recovery or disposal. <br /> <br />"Surface impoundment" is a method of solid or hazardous waste <br />disposal that includes a wide variety of facilities referred to as <br />pits, ponds, lagoons, basins and pools. <br /> <br />"Transfer station" means an intermediate waste facility in which <br />solid or hazardous waste collected from any source is temporarily <br />deposited before it is transported to a final disposal or recovery <br />facility. <br /> <br /> <br />