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 valorized or treated responsibly, or, failing that, be managed by suitable final disposal systems.
b. Category: 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 dwellings and in any other source, which presents compositions similar to those from dwellings. Special management or hazardous waste, regulated in this Law and its Regulation, are excluded.
d. Bulky waste (Residuos voluminosos): Any waste product of green area cleaning, branches, trunks, weeds, metal scrap, household appliances, furniture, remodeling waste, debris (escombros), construction waste, formwork wood, metal sheets, rebars, and others, which can be considered inert.
e. Special management waste (Residuos de manejo especial): those that, due to their composition, transport needs, storage conditions, forms of use or recovery value, or a combination thereof, imply significant risks to health and systematic degradation of the quality of the ecosystem, which is why they need to exit the normal stream of ordinary waste.
f. Municipality: Municipality of Osa.
g. Collection service (Servicio de recolección): Service for transporting ordinary solid waste from the source of generation to the municipal dump.
h. Final disposal service (Servicio de disposición final): Service for managing waste in the sanitary landfill, which can be for ordinary waste, bulky waste, or special waste.
i. Rate for collection and final disposal services for ordinary waste by category (Tasa de los servicios de recolección y disposición final de residuos ordinarios por categoría): Charge to the taxpayer in proportion to the estimated amount of waste generated per week.
j. Generator: natural or legal person, public or private, that produces waste when developing productive, agricultural, service, commercialization, or consumption processes.
k. Hazardous waste (Residuos peligrosos): those that, due to their chemical reactivity and their toxic, explosive, corrosive, radioactive, biological, bioinfectious, and flammable characteristics, or which, due to their exposure time, may cause harm to health and the environment.
l. Separation (Separación): procedure by which waste is prevented from mixing at the generating source, to facilitate the recovery of valorizable materials and avoid their final disposal.
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