For the purpose of this part, the following definitions apply:

1. (1) “Board” or “regional board” means a regional solid waste management board established pursuant to Arkansas Code § 8-6-701 et seq.;
2. (2) “Centers of commerce” means locations where residents of a county go to school, work, shop, or conduct business;
3. (3) “Commission” means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission;

4. (4) “Convenient” means:

   1. (A) A curbside system of collection;
   2. (B) Collection centers, whether public, private, or nonprofit, that are accessible to residents on the way to centers of commerce; or
   3. (C) Any other method of collection that, upon petition by the board to the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality, is deemed readily accessible to the general public for the purpose of recycling;
5. (5) “Director” means the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality;
6. (6) “District” means a regional solid waste management district, as established pursuant to Arkansas Code § 8-6-701 et seq.;
7. (7) “Division” means the Division of Environmental Quality or its successors;
8. (8) “End user” means a business or manufacturer that takes recyclable materials and alters or converts them into new materials or products;
9. (9) “Intermediate processor” means a company or material recovery facility that purchases or otherwise accepts recyclable waste materials and, after processing, sells them to an end user;
10. (10) “Nontraditional working hours” means days and hours of the week other than 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday;
11. (11) “Opportunity to recycle” means the availability of a curbside system of collection, or collection centers at sites that are convenient for persons to use;
12. (12) “Recyclable materials” or “recyclables” means those materials from the solid waste stream that can be recovered for use in present or reprocessed form;
13. (13) “Recyclable materials collection center” or “collection center” means a facility that receives or stores recyclable materials prior to transportation to material recovery facilities, markets for recycling, or disposal;

14. (14)

    1. (A) “Recyclable materials collection system” or “collection system” means a type of recyclables collection that does not include the direct use of a recyclable materials collection system by the general public.
    2. (B) Collection systems include curbside, house-to-house, and other such collection services provided to the general public, which directly receive and transport recyclable materials to collection centers, material recovery facilities, or markets; and
15. (15) “Recycling” means the systematic collection, sorting, decontaminating, and returning of solid waste materials to commerce as commodities for use or exchange.