For the purposes of this regulation, the following is understood by:
Storage: Action and effect of temporarily retaining waste while it is processed for its use, delivered to the collection or recycling service, or adequately disposed of.
Biodegradable: quality that all matter of an organic type possesses to be metabolized by biological means.
Collection center: strategic location determined by the municipal authorities for the reception of separated domestic solid waste, for its commercialization and recycling.
Materials 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.
Classification: method by which municipal solid waste is prevented from mixing, through its separate storage, to facilitate its transportation and final disposal.
Compost: Result of the decomposition and stabilization of organic waste by the action of microorganisms on organic waste through composting processes or anaerobic fermentation.
Composting: Technique that allows the controlled aerobic decomposition of biodegradable organic matter to achieve a product usable as a soil amendment.
Concessionaire: Individual or legal entity to whom, through an administrative-legal act, the right is temporarily granted to take charge of the cleaning, collection, transport, treatment, recycling, and/or final disposal service of ordinary waste in the canton.
Container: Receptacle intended for the temporary storage of non-hazardous solid waste of domestic, commercial, or industrial origin.
Bodies of Water: lakes, lagoons, aquifers, rivers and their direct or indirect, permanent or intermittent tributaries, dams or reservoirs, cenotes, springs, and in general, marine zones and other water bodies or currents.
Final disposal: action of permanently depositing municipal solid waste in sites designed for this purpose, to avoid damage to health or the environment, or to give them a final treatment, such as recycling or incineration.
Artisanal factory: Any place where a production process of a final good or an input for other processes takes place and where 1 to 4 employees work.
Small, medium, and large factories: Any place where a generation process takes place and 5 or more employees work.
Generation Source: Place where waste is generated. Generation: action and effect of producing solid waste.
Generator: Individual or legal entity, public or private, that generates solid waste, through the development of productive, service, commercialization, or consumption processes that are of municipal competence. Manager: Individual or legal entity, public or private, in charge of the total or partial management of solid waste and duly authorized for this purpose by this municipality.
Law: the Law for the Integrated Management of Waste No. 8839.
Leachates: liquids originating from waste, which are formed by reaction, drag, or percolation and which contain, dissolved or in suspension, components of the waste itself.
Waste management: the set of actions that make up the waste process and which include the classification, storage, collection, transport, reuse, treatment, recycling, incineration, and final disposal of solid waste.
Environment, the set of natural or human-induced elements that interact in a determined space and time.
Municipal Plan for Integrated Solid Waste Management (PMGIRS): Instrument that defines the cantonal policy on the matter and will guide municipal and/or cantonal actions on the subject within the area of its competence. It is the result of a planning process that is preferably prepared in a participatory manner by the municipality, incorporating the diverse actors of the canton.
Sanitary Landfill: engineering work for the final disposal of municipal solid waste and non-hazardous solid waste, guaranteeing their definitive isolation without alterations to ecosystems.
Collection: action and effect of transporting waste from households or storage sites to transfer stations, treatment facilities, or final disposal sites.
Selective collection: Separate collection service for solid waste previously separated at the source that allows certain solid waste to be valorized.
Regulation: The present regulation.
Organic waste: That which has the characteristic of being able to disintegrate or degrade rapidly, transforming into another type of waste.
Special management waste: Those ordinary waste that, due to their volume, quantity, their potential risks, their transportation needs, their storage conditions, or their recovery value, need to leave the normal waste stream.
Construction and demolition waste: Those solid waste generated in tasks such as: the construction, reconstruction, repair, alteration, nature, whether urban or rural.
Infected-contagious waste: That which contains bacteria, viruses, or other microorganisms with the capacity to cause infection or that contains or may contain toxins produced by microorganisms, which cause harmful effects to living beings or the human environment.
Hazardous waste: Waste with intrinsic properties that put the health of people at risk or that can cause damage to the environment.
Ordinary solid waste: Waste of mainly household origin or that comes from any other commercial, service, industrial activity, cleaning of roads and public areas, that have characteristics similar to household waste.
Valorizable solid waste: Waste that has reuse value or has the potential to be valorized through recycling or composting processes.
Bulky waste: All those materials, simple or composite, habitually used in the domestic sphere and that are comprised, according to their function, into two groups: furniture and electrical and electronic items.
Treatment: action and effect of transforming waste, by means of which its characteristics are changed through recycling, composting, mechanical-biological treatment, among others, with the aim of avoiding damage to the environment or health.
User: Any individual or legal entity that is affected by or benefits from the services regulated herein has the category of user for the purposes of the provision of services regulated here.
Valorization: Set of associated actions whose objective is to give added value to waste for productive processes through the recovery of materials and/or energy use and the rational use of resources.