a. Municipality: The Municipality of the Canton of Abangares.
b. Department of Works and Services: Area of the Municipality responsible for overseeing the operational aspect of collection services for solid waste, street cleaning, and public sites.
c. Storage: Action of temporarily retaining waste while it is delivered to the collection service, processed for its utilization or change of its characteristics, or disposed of.
d. Material recovery centers: 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 their subsequent commercialization.
e. Compost: Result of the decomposition and stabilization by the action of microorganisms of organic waste through composting processes or anaerobic fermentation.
f. Composting: Technique that allows the aerobic decomposition of biodegradable organic matter in a controlled manner to achieve a product usable as a soil improver.
g. Concessionaire: Individual or legal entity to whom, through an administrative legal act, the right to temporarily take charge of the cleaning, collection, transportation, treatment, recycling, and/or final disposal service for ordinary waste of the canton is granted.
h. Container: Receptacle intended for the temporary storage of non-hazardous solid waste of domestic, commercial, or industrial origin.
i. Final disposal: Orderly and definitive placement, distribution, and confinement of ordinary waste at a site designed for this purpose.
j. Transfer Station: Facility that, with the necessary equipment, allows the change of the transportation method for non-hazardous solid waste, from collection units to higher-capacity vehicles for its transport to a treatment facility or final disposal.
k. Anaerobic fermentation: Technique that allows the decomposition and stabilization by the action of microorganisms of solid and liquid organic waste.
l. Generation Source: Place where waste is generated.
m. Generator: Individual or legal entity, public or private, that generates solid waste, through the development of production, service, commercialization, or consumption processes that fall under municipal jurisdiction.
n. ISWM (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.
o. Manager: Individual or legal entity, public or private, responsible for the total or partial management of solid waste and duly authorized for this purpose by this municipality.
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, transportation, valorization, treatment, and final disposal.
r. Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan: Instrument that defines cantonal policy on the subject and will guide municipal and/or cantonal actions on the issue within its area of jurisdiction. It is the result of a planning process preferably carried out in a participatory manner by the municipality, incorporating the diverse actors of the canton.
s. Collection: Action of collecting solid waste under municipal jurisdiction at generation sources or receptacles, in accordance with what is established in this regulation, to be transferred to transfer stations, treatment facilities, or final disposal.
t. Selective collection: Separate collection service for solid waste previously separated at 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 Sanitary Landfill Regulation.
w. Solid waste: Solid or semi-solid, post-consumer material that its generator or holder must or needs to dispose of.
x. Special management waste: Those ordinary waste that, due to their volume, quantity, potential risks, transportation needs, storage conditions, or recovery value, require exiting the normal waste stream.
y. Construction and demolition waste: those solid waste 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 mainly household origin or that comes from any other source activity, having characteristics similar to those of homes.
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 harm to human health and the environment.
dd. Sharp-cutting waste: Any object capable of penetrating and/or cutting tissues, including 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 reached the end of 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 with similar characteristics and demolition waste.
gg. Waste separation: Procedure by which solid waste is prevented from being mixed, from the generation source, which allows it to be disposed of separately, for collection purposes.
hh. Collection Service: Transportation service for ordinary solid waste.
ii. 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.
jj. Final Disposal Service: Management service for waste in the sanitary landfill or similar.
kk. User: Any individual and legal entity that is affected by or benefits from the ISWM services holds the category of user for the purposes of providing the services regulated herein.
ll. Department of Tax Administration: Area of the Municipality responsible for collecting fees from taxpayers for waste collection and street and public site cleaning services.
mm. Category: Classification of a taxpayer according to the estimated waste generated per month.
nn. Household solid waste: That which, by its nature, composition, quantity, and volume is generated in activities in homes or in any establishment similar to these.
oo. Commercial solid waste: That generated in commercial and mercantile establishments, such as stores, hotels, warehouses, restaurants, cafeterias, soda fountains, butcher shops, markets of all types, lubrication centers, service stations, workshops, and other types of businesses.
pp. Institutional Waste: That generated in educational, governmental, correctional, religious, hospital establishments, air, land, river, or maritime terminals, among others.
qq. Traditional Waste: Solid waste traditionally generated including paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, food, and organics, which are the result of the daily activities of the different housing units, patent holders, and public or private entities.
rr. Non-traditional waste: Any waste product from the cleaning of green areas or others that, due to their quantity and volume, are generated from housing or similar activities.
ss. Bulky Waste: Any waste such as branches, logs, tires, batteries, scrap metal, household appliances, furniture, renovation waste, construction waste, formwork lumber, metal sheets, rebar, and others, which can be considered inert.
tt. Special Event Waste: Any waste generated by festive activities such as: patron saint celebrations, civic-patronal festivals, dances, and other similar private or public activities.
uu. Street and Public Site Cleaning Service: Cleaning service for public roads, sidewalks, drains, sewers, ditches, and public sites.
vv. Generation Factor: The range in which a user is placed depending on the estimated amount of waste produced per month, taking as a basis the estimated waste generation for a housing unit.
ww. Valorization: Set of associated actions whose objective is to give added value to waste for production processes through the recovery of materials and/or energy utilization and the rational use of resources.
MUNICIPAL ATTRIBUTIONS AND OBLIGATIONS