Clean Kerala

Definitions.-- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires ,-

i. "anaerobic digestion" means a controlled process involving microbial decomposition of organic matter in the absence of oxygen;
ii. "authorization" means the consent given by the Board or Committee to the "operator of a facility" ;
iii. "biodegradable substance" means a substance that can be degraded by micro-organisms;
iv. "biomethanation" means a process which entails enzymatic decomposition of the organic matter by microbial action to produce methane rich biogas;
v. "collection" means lifting and removal of solid wastes from collection points or any other location;
vi. "composting" means a controlled process involving microbial decomposition of organic matter;
vii. "demolition and construction waste" means wastes from building materials debris and rubble resulting from construction, re-modelling, repair and demolition operation;
viii. "disposal" means final disposal of municipal solid wastes in terms of the specified measures to prevent contamination of ground-water, surface water and ambient air quality;
ix. "Form" means a Form appended to these rules;
x. "generator of wastes" means persons or establishments generating municipal solid wastes;
xi. "landfilling" means disposal of residual solid wastes on land in a facility designed with protective measures against pollution of ground water, surface water and air fugitive dust, wind-blown litter, bad odour, fire hazard, bird menace, pests or rodents, greenhouse gas emissions, slope instability and erosion;
xii. "leachate" means liquid that seeps through solid wastes or other medium and has extracts of dissolved or suspended material from it;
xiii. "lysimeter" is a device used to measure rate of movement of water through or from a soil layer or is used to collect percolated water for quality analysis;
xiv. "municipal authority" means Municipal Corporation, Municipality, Nagar Palika, Nagar Nigam, Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council including notified area committee (NAC) or any other local body constituted under the relevant statutes and, where the management and handling of municipal solid waste is entrusted to such agency;
xv. "municipal solid waste" includes commercial and residential wastes generated in a municipal or notified areas in either solid or semi-solid form excluding industrial hazardous wastes but including treated bio-medical wastes;
xvi. "operator of a facility" means a person who owns or operates a facility for collection, segregation, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid wastes and also includes any other agency appointed as such by the municipal authority for the management and handling of municipal solid wastes in the respective areas;
xvii. "pelletisation" means a process whereby pellets are prepared which are small cubes or cylindrical pieces made out of solid wastes and includes fuel pellets which are also referred as refuse derived fuel;
xviii. "processing" means the process by which solid wastes are transformed into new or recycled products;
xix. "recycling" means the process of transforming segregated solid wastes into raw materials for producing new products, which may or may not be similar to the original products;
xx. "Schedule" means a Schedule appended to these rules;
xxi. "segregation" means to separate the municipal solid wastes into the groups of organic, inorganic, recyclables and hazardous wastes;
xxii. "State Board or the Committee" means the State Pollution Control Board of a State, or as the case may be, the Pollution Control Committee of a Union territory;
xxiii. "storage" means the temporary containment of municipal solid wastes in a manner so as to prevent littering, attraction to vectors, stray animals and excessive foul odour;
xxiv. "transportation" means conveyance of municipal solid wastes from place to place hygienically through specially designed transport system so as to prevent foul odour, littering, unsightly conditions and accessibility to vectors;
xxv. "vadose water" water which occurs between the ground, surface and the water table that is the unsaturated zone;
xxvi. "vermicomposting" is a process of using earthworms for conversion of bio-degradable wastes into compost.