Organic Materials definition

Organic Materials means any combination of Food Waste and Green Waste. Organic Materials

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Organic Materials means Yard Trimmings and Food Waste, individually or collectively. No Discarded Material shall be considered to be Organic Materials, however, unless it is separated from Recyclable Material and Solid Waste. Organic Materials are a subset of Organic Waste.

Organic Materials means, for the purposes of Section 9.4 of the Act, any chemical compound of carbon, including diluents and thinners which are liquids at standard conditions and which are used as dissolvers, viscosity reducers or cleaning agents, including polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons but excluding methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbonic acid, metallic carbide, metallic carbonates, and ammonium carbonate are not organic materials.

Examples of Organic Materials in a sentence

• When notified of a missed pick-up, Contractor shall Collect the Solid Waste, Targeted Recyclable Materials, or Organic Materials on the day the notice is received, if possible, and in all cases shall Collect the missed pick-up by 6:00 p.m. of the next Business Day following receipt of the missed pick-up notification.

• Contractor is required to inspect Solid Waste, Targeted Recyclable Materials, Organic Materials, and other materials put out for Collection and may reject Solid Waste, Targeted Recyclable Materials, Organic Materials, and other materials observed to be contaminated with Hazardous Waste and not Collect Hazardous Waste put out with Solid Waste, Targeted Recyclable Materials, and Organic Materials.

• Include description of potential new or expanded Processing capacity at those Facilities, operations, and activities for Processing of Organic Materials, including information about throughput and permitted capacity necessary for planning purposes.

• At a minimum, Contractor shall divert from Disposal: cardboard, E-Scrap, useable furniture, Major Appliances, mattresses, Organic Materials, wood waste, and other reusable or Recyclable Materials.

• Routes over which Contractor’s vehicles travel to affect the Collection and transport of Solid Waste, Targeted Recyclable Materials, and Organic Materials shall be selected to minimize damage to Agency and private streets, and minimize inconvenience and disturbance to the public.

More Definitions of Organic Materials

Organic Materials means those materials that will decompose and/or putrefy and that the Agency permits, directs, or requires Generators to separate from Solid Waste and Targeted Recyclable Materials for collection in specially designated containers for Organic Materials collection. Organic Materials include Plant Materials, Food Scraps, paper contaminated with Food Scraps, biodegradable plastic food service ware, pieces of unpainted and untreated wood, and pieces of unpainted and untreated wallboard. Plant materials and wood may be in loose form or chipped or ground but excludes finished product such as mulch or compost for sale. No Discarded Material shall be considered Organic Materials, unless such material is separated from Solid Waste and Targeted Recyclable Material.

Organic Materials means food waste, leaf and yard waste, boxboard, soiled and non-recyclable paper, branches and bushes, natural Christmas trees without decorations and stands and other material of plant or animal origin as designated by Council from time to time.

Organic Materials means vegetative matter, food processing waste, garden waste, kitchen scraps and other organic wastes that can be composted, and includes food, tissues, paper towels, food soiled paper, waxed cardboard, leaves, grass, small twigs, chipped tree waste, tree branches less than 75 millimetres in diameter, and compostable structural wood waste;

Organic Materials means waste items or materials referred to in Schedule “A” to this By-law;

Organic Materials means any material of animal or plant origin.

Organic Materials means household kitchen food waste and other compostable household materials which are acceptable for collection in the Green Bin Program.

Organic Materials means those Green Waste and Food Waste which are specifically accepted at the Approved Organic Materials Processing Facility. No Discarded Material shall be considered to be Organic Materials, however, unless it is separated from Solid Waste and Recyclable Material.