(30 ILCS 750/3-3) (from Ch. 127, par. 2703-3)
Sec. 3-3. Definitions. For the purposes of this Article:
"Department" means the Department of Natural Resources.
"Hazardous waste" means a waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed of, or otherwise managed, and which has been identified, by characteristics or listing, as hazardous pursuant to Section 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, or pursuant to Pollution Control Board regulations.
"Municipal waste" means garbage, general household, institutional and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or office waste, landscape waste, and construction and demolition debris.
"Recycling, reclamation or reuse" means a method, technique, or process designed to remove any contaminant from waste so as to render the waste reusable.
"Solid waste" means "waste" as defined in the Environmental Protection Act.
"Treatment" means any method, technique or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any waste so as to neutralize it or render it nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. "Treatment" includes any activity or processing designed to change the physical form or chemical composition of hazardous waste so as to render it nonhazardous.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
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