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90_SB0060
415 ILCS 15/3 from Ch. 85, par. 5953
Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act to make
a technical change. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling
2 Act by changing Section 3.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act is
6 amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
7 (415 ILCS 15/3) (from Ch. 85, par. 5953)
8 Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the
9 context clearly indicates otherwise:
10 "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection
11 Agency.
12 "Composting" means the biological process by which
13 microorganisms decompose the organic fraction of waste,
14 producing a humus-like material that may be used as a soil
15 conditioner.
16 "County" means any county of the State and includes the
17 City of Chicago.
18 "Department" means the Department of Commerce and
19 Community Affairs.
20 "Municipal waste" means garbage, general household,
21 institutional and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or
22 office waste, landscape waste, and construction and
23 demolition debris.
24 "Person" means any individual, partnership, cooperative
25 enterprise, unit of local government, institution,
26 corporation or agency, or any other legal entity whatsoever
27 which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and
28 duties.
29 "Recycling, reclamation or reuse" means a method,
30 technique or process designed to remove any contaminant from
31 waste so as to render the waste reusable, or any process by
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1 which materials that would otherwise be disposed of or
2 discarded are collected, separated or processed and returned
3 to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or
4 products.
5 "Recycling center" means a facility that accepts only
6 segregated, nonhazardous, nonspecial, homogeneous,
7 nonputrescible materials, such as dry paper, glass, cans or
8 plastics, for subsequent use in the secondary materials
9 market.
10 (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
11 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12 becoming law.