2019 New York Laws
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 54 - Environmental Protection Act
Title 7 - Municipal Waste Reduction or Recycling Projects
54-0701 - Definitions.

§ 54-0701. Definitions.
As used in this title the following terms shall mean and include:
1.  "Cost"  means  the  capital  cost of a municipal recycling project
  including engineering and architectural  services,  surveys,  plans  and
  specifications;  consultant  and legal services; lands acquired pursuant
  to the conditions set forth in section 54-0709 of this title, and  other
  direct  capital  expenses  incident  to such a project, less any federal
  assistance or other assistance received or to be received. "Cost"  shall
  also include the capital, planning and promotional costs associated with
  waste reduction projects, the costs related to household hazardous waste
  collection  and  disposal  programs,  and the costs related to planning,
  educational and promotional activities  associated  with  a  recyclables
  recovery   program.   "Cost"   shall  also  include  beverage  container
  assistance  program  grants   to   municipalities   and   not-for-profit
  organizations  pursuant  to  section  27-1018 of this chapter. Provided,
  however, "cost" shall exclude any cost incurred prior  to  April  first,
  nineteen  hundred  ninety-three, and shall further exclude costs related
  to planning, educational and promotional activities  associated  with  a
  recyclables   recovery  program  incurred  prior  to  April  first,  two
  thousand.
2. "Recyclables recovery equipment"  means  structures,  machinery  or
  devices,  singly  or  in combination, designed, constructed and required
  primarily to separate,  process,  modify,  convert,  treat,  or  prepare
  collected  solid  waste,  which  is  included  as  part of a recyclables
  recovery  program  so  that  component  materials   or   substances   or
  recoverable  resources may be used as a raw material for new products or
  for useful  purposes  other  than  for  energy  recovery,  and  for  the
  collection and preparation for disposal of household hazardous waste.
3.  "Recyclables  recovery  program"  means  a program undertaken by a
  municipality  consistent  with  requirements  of  section  one   hundred
  twenty-aa   of   the   general   municipal   law   to  provide  for  the
  environmentally sound recovery of recyclables, primarily  involving  the
  collection, aggregation and processing of recyclable materials for their
  use as raw materials for new products or for other useful purposes other
  than  for  energy  recovery,  through  facilities  planned, designed and
  constructed to ensure  environmental  protection  and  to  maximize  the
  potential  for recyclables recovery. A recyclables recovery program also
  shall mean planning, educational and promotional activities to  increase
  public  awareness  of and participation in recycling. Such program shall
  have been approved by the commissioner and  undertaken  consistent  with
  any  local  solid  waste  management plan pursuant to section 27-0107 of
  this chapter.
4. "Recycling project" means recyclables  recovery  equipment,  source
  separation  equipment, a recyclables recovery program or any combination
  thereof required by a recyclables recovery program and the reimbursement
  to municipalities and not-for-profit corporations,  as  such  terms  are
  defined in section 54-0101 of this article, for the cost of a redemption
  center as defined in section 27-1003 of this chapter.
5. "Source separation equipment" means municipally-owned:
a. Add-ons or trailers designed to modify collection vehicles to allow
  sorting  and  separation  of  collected  wastes  held for the purpose of
  recycling;
b. Containers for the  source  separation  and  temporary  storage  of
  recyclable   wastes   by   commercial,   industrial   and  institutional
  generators, and for the  source  separation  and  temporary  storage  of
  recyclable  wastes  by single family and multiple family dwellings prior
  to collection;

c. Bins, sheds or  other  facilities  for  the  temporary  storage  of
  materials prior to transport for the purposes of recycling; and
d.  Collection  vehicles  specifically  designed to hold and transport
  source separated recyclables.
6. "Waste reduction projects" means projects undertaken to reduce  the
  volume  or  toxicity  of  material  entering  the  municipal solid waste
  stream, by reducing the volume or toxicity of such material at the point
  of generation. Waste  reduction  projects  shall  include  planning  and
  educational  or  promotional  activities to increase public awareness of
  methods to prevent the  generation  of  waste  including  the  reuse  of
  certain materials, substitution of non-toxic household products, and the
  promotion of backyard composting.
7.  "Household  hazardous waste" shall mean solid waste emanating from
  households (including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels,
  bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic  grounds
  and  day-use  recreation areas) which but for their point of generation,
  would be a hazardous waste under title 9 of article 27 of  this  chapter
  or a "pesticide" as defined in article 33 of this chapter.