For purposes of this regulation, the following is understood by:
- a)Material recovery center: A permanent site for the reception and temporary storage of waste for its valorization, where recoverable materials can be weighed, classified, and separated according to their nature (e.g. Plastic, cardboard, paper, glass, and metals) for subsequent commercialization.
- b)Compost: Result of the decomposition and stabilization by the action of microorganisms of organic waste through composting or anaerobic fermentation processes.
- c)Composting: Technique that allows the aerobic decomposition of biodegradable organic matter in a controlled manner to achieve a product usable as a soil improver.
- d)Concessionaire: Natural or legal person to whom, through an administrative legal act, the right is temporarily granted to take charge of the sanitation, collection, transport, treatment, recycling, and/or final disposal service for ordinary waste in the canton.
- e)Container: Receptacle intended for the temporary storage of non-hazardous solid waste of domestic, commercial, or industrial origin.
- f)Final Disposal: Orderly and definitive placement, distribution, and confinement of ordinary waste in a site designed for this purpose.
- g)Anaerobic Fermentation: Technique that allows the decomposition and stabilization by action of microorganisms of organic solid waste.
- h)Generation Source: Place where waste is generated.
- i)Generator: Natural or legal person, public or private, that generates solid waste, through the development of productive processes, services, commercialization, or consumption, which is of municipal competence.
- j)Large Generator: Natural or legal person that generates a quantity equal to or greater than 1000 kg/month, considering the time periods of waste generation and carrying weighted averages and a moving average of the last 6 months of the weighed quantities. (Hotels, restaurants, and bars).
- k)Medium Generator: Natural or legal person that generates ordinary waste or discards in a quantity equal to or greater than 100 kg/month and less than 1000 kg/calendar month, considering the time periods of waste generation and carrying weighted averages and a moving average of the last 6 months of the weighed quantities. (Cabins, educational centers, small restaurants, institutions, private offices, supermarkets, mixed-use residences).
- l)Small Generator: Natural person that generates ordinary waste or discards in a quantity equal to or greater than 10 kg/month and less than 100 kg/calendar month, considering the time periods of waste generation and carrying weighted averages and a moving average of the last 6 months of the weighed quantities. (Residences, visitors).
- m)Integrated Solid Waste Management: Articulated and interrelated set of regulatory, operational, financial, administrative, educational, planning, monitoring, and evaluation actions for the management of solid waste, from its generation to final disposal.
- n)Manager: Natural or legal person, public or private, responsible for the total or partial management of solid waste and duly authorized for this purpose by this municipality.
- o)Incentives: Benefit granted to generators that contribute to a correct management of solid waste.
- p)Treatment Facility: Facilities whose purpose is the transformation of waste or specific parts into new products or the change of characteristics, such as recycling, composting, mechanical-biological treatment, thermal treatment, among others.
- q)Waste Management: Set of technical and operational activities of waste management that includes: storage, collection, transport, valorization, treatment, and final disposal.
- r)Municipal Plan for Integrated Solid Waste Management: Instrument that defines the cantonal policy on the matter and will guide municipal and/or cantonal actions on the subject within its area of competence. It is the result of a planning process that is preferably prepared in a participatory manner by the municipality incorporating the various actors of the canton.
- s)Collection: Action of collecting solid waste of municipal competence at the generation sources or containers, in accordance with what is established in this regulation, to be transported to transfer stations, treatment facilities, or final disposal.
- t)Selective Collection: Separate collection service for solid waste previously separated at the source that allows certain solid waste to be valorized.
- u)Regulation: the present regulation.
- v)Sanitary Landfill: Engineering method for the final disposal of solid waste generated in the canton in accordance with the Regulation on Sanitary Landfills.
- w)Solid Waste: Solid or semi-solid post-consumer material whose generator or holder must or requires to dispose of it.
- x)Special Handling Waste: Those ordinary wastes that, due to their volume, their quantity, their potential risks, their transportation needs, their storage conditions, or their recovery value, require leaving the normal waste stream.
- y)Construction and Demolition Waste: Those solid wastes generated in tasks such as: the construction, reconstruction, repair, alteration, expansion, and demolition of buildings, and urbanization works of any nature, whether urban or rural.
- z)Easily Biodegradable Solid Waste: Solid or semi-solid organic waste, of animal or vegetable origin, that can be decomposed and utilized through composting.
aa) Ordinary Solid Waste: Waste of primarily residential origin or that comes from any other commercial, service, industrial activity, cleaning of roads and public areas, that has characteristics similar to residential ones.
bb) Non-Valorizable Solid Waste: Waste that has no use or recovery value and that must be adequately disposed of in a sanitary landfill.
- cc)Hazardous Solid Waste: That which, due to its corrosive, radioactive, toxic, infectious, biological characteristics, or the combination thereof, can cause toxic, flammable, combustible reactions, or others that can cause harm to the health of people and the environment. The following, among others, will be considered hazardous waste originating in residential units: expired medicines, glass thermometers, fluorescent lamps, light fixtures, batteries, flammable substances (paint and solvent residues), used oils, electronic equipment, and used injection needles.
dd) Sharp Waste: Any object with the capacity to penetrate and/or cut tissues, among them, surgical medical instruments; laboratory articles, dental instruments, as well as general-use articles: such as light bulbs (all types), fluorescent tubes, and all types of staples and metal and plastic bands.
ee) Valorizable Solid Waste: Waste that has reuse value or has the potential to be valorized through recycling or composting processes.
ff) Bulky or Non-Traditional Solid Waste: Those objects disposed of by their owners sporadically, having finished their useful life, which, due to their size, weight, or characteristics, are not suitable for ordinary collection and require a special collection service; such as refrigerators, water heaters, stoves, mattresses, washing machines, or any furniture of similar characteristics.
gg) Waste Separation: Procedure by which solid waste is prevented from the generating source from mixing, which allows it to be disposed of separately, for collection purposes.
hh) Treatment: Transformation of waste or specific parts into new products or the change of characteristics, such as recycling, composting, mechanical-biological treatment, thermal treatment, among others.
- ii)User: Has the category of user for the purposes of providing the services regulated herein, any natural and legal person who is affected or benefited by the GIRS services.
jj) Valorization: Set of associated actions whose objective is to give added value to waste for productive processes through the recovery of materials and/or the energy utilization and rational use of resources.