La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § VII-10405
Beneficial Use- the use of waste material for some profitable purpose (e.g., incorporating sludge into soil to amend the soil). Avoidance of processing or disposal cost alone does not constitute beneficial use.
Conventional Disposal- the disposal as waste in a cell at a landfill. It shall not include any application specifically approved by the department as a beneficial use (e.g., alternate daily cover).
Industrial Solid Waste- solid waste generated by a manufacturing, industrial, or mining process, or which is contaminated by solid waste generated by such a process. Such waste may include, but is not limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes: electric power generation; fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; food and related products; byproducts; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing; leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing/foundries; organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete products; textile manufacturing; and transportation equipment. This term shall not include hazardous waste regulated under the Louisiana hazardous waste regulations or under federal law, or waste which is subject to regulation under the Office of Conservation's Statewide Order No. 29-B or by other agencies.
Post-Consumer Waste Material- any product generated by a business or consumer which has served its intended end use, and which has been separated from solid waste for the purposes of collection, marketing and disposition and which does not include secondary waste material, hazardous waste, or demolition waste.
Process- a method or technique, including recycling, recovering, compacting (but not including compacting that occurs solely within a transportation vehicle), composting, incinerating, shredding, baling, recovering resources, pyrolyzing, or any other method or technique designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of a solid waste to render it safer for transport, reduced in volume, or amenable for recovery, storage, reshipment, or resale. The definition of process shall not include treatment of wastewaters to meet state or federal wastewater discharge permit limits. Neither shall the definition include activities of an industrial generator to simply separate wastes from the manufacturing process.
Qualified New Recycling Manufacturing or Process Equipment- new machinery or new apparatus used exclusively to process post-consumer waste material, recovered material, or both, and manufacturing machinery used exclusively to produce finished products, the composition of which is at least 50 percent post-consumer waste material, recovered material, or both. For purposes of this Chapter, qualified new recycling manufacturing or process equipment shall not include vehicles, structures, machinery, equipment, or devices used to store or incinerate waste material, or construction equipment or farm equipment used in the process.
Qualified Service Contract- any service contract utilized by a nonhazardous industrial waste generator or a nonhazardous industrial waste beneficial user to implement Department of Environmental Quality-approved beneficial use programs for nonhazardous industrial waste streams as defined under the department's solid waste rules and regulations so as to avoid conventional disposal of such waste in a landfill.
Recovered Material- recovered materials as defined in R.S. 30:2412 and which would otherwise be processed or disposed of as nonhazardous solid waste.
Recycling- any process by which nonhazardous solid waste, or material which would otherwise become solid waste, is collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw material or products.
Secondary Waste Material- waste material generated after the completion of a manufacturing process.
Solid Waste- any garbage, refuse, or sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. Solid waste shall not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage; solid or dissolved materials in irrigation-return flows; industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under R.S. 30:2075; source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 923 et seq.), as amended; or hazardous waste subject to permits under R.S. 30:2171 et seq.
Vehicle- an automobile; motorcycle; truck; trailer; semitrailer; truck, tractor and semitrailer combination; or any other vehicle used to transport persons or property and propelled by power.
La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § VII-10405