a. Waste (Residuo): solid, semi-solid, liquid, or gaseous material, which its generator or possessor must or needs to dispose of, and which can or must be responsibly valorized or treated or, failing that, be managed through adequate final disposal systems.
b. Category (Categoría): Classification of a taxpayer according to the estimated waste they generate per week.
c. Ordinary waste (Residuos ordinarios): waste of a domestic nature generated in homes and any other source, which presents compositions similar to that of homes. Excluded are special management or hazardous waste, regulated in this Law and its Regulations.
d. Bulky waste (Residuos voluminosos): Any waste product of green area clearing, branches, trunks, weeds, metal scrap, household appliances, furniture, remodeling waste, rubble, construction waste, formwork lumber, metal sheets, rebar, and others, which can be considered inert.
e. Special management waste (Residuos de manejo especial): those which, due to their composition, transportation needs, storage conditions, forms of use or recovery value, or a combination thereof, entail significant health risks and systematic degradation of the quality of the ecosystem, and therefore must be removed from the normal ordinary waste stream.
f. Municipality (Municipalidad): Municipality of Osa.
g. Collection service: Service of transporting ordinary solid waste from the generation source to the municipal dump.
h. Final disposal service: Service of managing waste in the sanitary landfill, which can be for ordinary waste, bulky waste, or special waste.
i. Rate for ordinary waste collection and final disposal services by category: Charge to the taxpayer in proportion to the estimated amount of waste generated per week.
j. Generator: natural or legal person, public or private, who produces waste when developing productive, agricultural, service, commercialization, or consumption processes.
k. Hazardous waste (Residuos peligrosos): those which, due to their chemical reactivity and their toxic, explosive, corrosive, radioactive, biological, bioinfectious, and flammable characteristics, or which, due to their time of exposure, can cause harm to health and the environment.
l. Separation (Separación): procedure whereby the mixing of waste is prevented from the generating source, to facilitate the recovery of valorizable materials and avoid their final disposal.
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