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RELEVANT LINKS:
<br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.03, subd.
<br />21.
<br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.03, subd.
<br />31. Minn. Stat. § 116.06,
<br />subd. 22.
<br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.951.
<br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.96. Minn.
<br />Stat. § 115A.03, subd. 17a.
<br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.9565.
<br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.931.
<br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.932.
<br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.9155.
<br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.9157.
<br />E. Definitions
<br />1. Mixed municipal solid waste
<br />Mixed municipal solid waste is defined as "garbage, refuse, and other solid
<br />waste from residential, commercial, industrial, and community activities that
<br />the generator of the waste aggregates for collection." Mixed municipal solid
<br />waste does not include "auto hulks, street sweepings, ash, construction
<br />debris, mining waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes, tires, lead acid
<br />batteries, motor and vehicle fluids and filters, and other materials collected,
<br />processed, and disposed of as separate waste streams."
<br />2. Solid waste
<br />Solid waste is defined as "garbage, refuse, sludge from a water supply
<br />treatment plant or air contaminant treatment facility, and other discarded
<br />waste materials and sludges, in solid, semisolid, liquid, or contained gaseous
<br />form, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural
<br />operations, and from community activities." Solid waste does not include:
<br />• Hazardous waste.
<br />• Animal waste used as fertilizer.
<br />• Earthen fill, boulders, rock.
<br />• Concrete diamond grinding and saw slurry associated with the
<br />construction, improvement, or repair of a road when deposited on the
<br />road project site in a manner that is in compliance with best management
<br />practices and rules of the agency.
<br />• Sewage sludge.
<br />• Solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other common
<br />pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids
<br />in industrial wastewater effluents or discharges which are point sources
<br />subject to permits under section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution
<br />Control Act, as amended, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows.
<br />• Source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic
<br />Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
<br />State law specifically prohibits certain items from being included in mixed
<br />municipal solid waste or in solid waste, including: telephone directories,
<br />major appliances, electronic products containing a cathode-ray tube, yard
<br />waste, tires, motor and vehicle fluids and filters, mercury or mercury -
<br />containing devices or products from which the mercury has not been
<br />removed for reuse or recycling, fluorescent tubes, and certain batteries.
<br />League of Minnesota Cities Information Memo:
<br />City Solid Waste Management
<br />5/6/2024
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