- A. “Department” means the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
- B. “Material recovery facility” means a transfer facility that collects, compacts, repackages, sorts, or processes commingled recyclable solid waste generated offsite for the purpose of recycling and transport, or where source separated recyclable solid waste is processed for sale to various markets, and where the incoming materials are predominantly recyclable solid waste.
C. “Recyclable solid waste” means a product or material described in subsection (C)(1) or (2), and for which subsection (C)(3) is true:
- 1. A product with no useful life remaining for the purposes for which it was produced, or if useful life remains, the product will not, due to location, quantity, or owner choice, remain in use or be reused for a purpose for which it was produced.
- 2. A material that is a result of a process or activity whose purpose was to produce something else.
- 3. The product or material retains some economic value, with or without further processing, as a raw material or feedstock in some process other than incineration or combustion.
Historical Note
New Section made by final rulemaking at 31 A.A.R. 348 (January 24, 2025), with an immediate effective date of December 24, 2024 (Supp. 24-4).