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RELEVANT LINKS: <br />E. Definitions <br />1. Mixed municipal solid waste <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.03, subd. <br />Mixed municipal solid waste is defined as "garbage, refuse, and other solid <br />21. <br />waste from residential, commercial, industrial, and community activities that <br />the generator of the waste aggregates for collection." Mixed municipal solid <br />waste does not include "auto hulks, street sweepings, ash, construction <br />debris, mining waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes, tires, lead acid <br />batteries, motor and vehicle fluids and filters, and other materials collected, <br />processed, and disposed of as separate waste streams." <br />2. Solid waste <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.03, subd. <br />Solid waste is defined as "garbage, refuse, sludge from a water supply <br />31. Minn. Stat. § 116.06, <br />subd. 22. <br />treatment plant or air contaminant treatment facility, and other discarded <br />waste materials and sludges, in solid, semisolid, liquid, or contained gaseous <br />form, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural <br />operations, and from community activities." Solid waste does not include: <br />• Hazardous waste <br />• Animal waste used as fertilizer <br />• Earthen fill, boulders, rock <br />• Concrete diamond grinding and saw slurry associated with the <br />construction, improvement, or repair of a road when deposited on the <br />road project site in a manner that is in compliance with best management <br />practices and rules of the agency <br />• Sewage sludge <br />• Solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other common <br />pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids <br />in industrial wastewater effluents or discharges which are point sources <br />subject to permits under section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution <br />Control Act, as amended, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows <br />• Source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic <br />Energy Act of 1954, as amended <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.951. <br />State law specifically prohibits certain items from being included in mixed <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.96. Minn. <br />Stat. § 115A.03, subd. 17a. <br />municipal solid waste or in solid waste, including: telephone directories, <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.9565. <br />major appliances, electronic products containing a cathode-ray tube, yard <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.931. <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.935. <br />waste, tires, motor and vehicle fluids and filters, mercury or mercury - <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.932. <br />containing devices or products from which the mercury has not been <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.9155. <br />Minn. Stat. § 115A.9157. <br />removed for reuse or recycling, fluorescent tubes, and certain batteries. <br />League of Minnesota Cities Information Memo: 6/9/2022 <br />City Solid Waste Management Page 3 <br />