| (55) Source-separated--Set apart from waste after use
or consumption by the user or consumer.
(56) Source-separated organic material--Organic materials
from residential, commercial, industrial, and other community activities,
that at the point of generation have been separated, collected, and
transported separately from non-organic materials, or transported
in the same vehicle as non-organic materials but in separate compartments.
Source-separated organic material may include materials such as, but
not limited to, yard trimmings, clean wood materials, manure, vegetative
material, and paper. Yard trimmings and clean wood material collected
with whitegoods, as in brush and bulky item collections, will be considered
source-separated organic materials for the purposes of these rules.
(57) Stockpile--A collection of materials that is either
awaiting processing or removal.
(58) Unauthorized material--Material that is not authorized
to be processed in a particular type of composting, mulching, or land
application facility.
(59) Vector--An agent, such as an insect, snake, rodent,
bird, or animal capable of mechanically or biologically transferring
a pathogen from one organism to another.
(60) Vegetative material--Fruit, vegetable, or grain
material whether raw, processed, liquid, solid, or cooked. Vegetative
material does not include oils and/or greases that are derived from
these same materials.
(61) Voucher--Provides the same information as required
on a label to persons receiving compost distributed in bulk.
(62) Wet weight--The weight of the material as used,
not a weight that has been adjusted by subtracting the weight of water
within the feedstock.
(63) Wetlands--Those areas defined as wetlands in the
Texas Water Code, Chapter 26.
(64) White goods--Discarded large household appliances
such as refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, or dishwashers.
(65) Yard trimmings--Leaves, grass clippings, yard
and garden debris, and brush, including clean woody vegetative material
not greater than six inches in diameter, that results from landscaping
maintenance and land-clearing operations. Yard trimmings does not
include stumps, roots, or shrubs with intact root balls.
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