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DEFINITIONS <br />"Acre-foot" is a volume equal to 1,613 cubic yards. Based on Metropolitan <br />Council staff estimates, there are approximately 806.5 tons of waste received <br />at a landfill per acre-foot of landfill space used. <br />"Aluminum" is a light, grey nonferrous metal, typically discarded as scrap <br />beverage cans, house siding, cookingware, and furniture. <br />"Cities" means statutory and hone rule charter cities and towns authorized to <br />plan under Minn. Stat., secs. 462.351 to 462.364. <br />"Collection" when referring to solid and hazardous waste, means the aggregation <br />of solid or hazardous waste from the place where it is generated, and includes <br />all activities up to the time the waste is delivered to a waste facility <br />(Minn. Stat., sec. 473.121). <br />"Commercial Agriculture Region" means the area currently expected to continue <br />in agricultural use indefinitely, as generally mapped on the Mttropolitan <br />Council's Development Framework. When the 1985 revisions to the Development <br />Framework Plan are complete, it is expected that this region will be redefined <br />as areas eligible for or in agricultural preserves. <br />"Commercial solid waste" includes solid waste generated by stores, offices, <br />businesses, restaurants, warehouses and other nonmanufacturing activities, and <br />nonprocess wastes such as office and packing wastes generated at industrial <br />facilities. <br />"Compostable yard waste" includes leaves, grass clippings and other organic <br />wastes from lawn and garden maintenance that can readily be transformed into a <br />useable soil amendment through controlled biological degradation. <br />"Composting" means the controlled biological decompositon of selected solid <br />waste in a manner resulting in a humus -like final product that can be used as a <br />soil amendment. <br />"Backyard composting" means small-scale composting of yard and garden <br />wastes by individual homeowners on their own property. <br />"Centralized composting" means composting of wastes on a larger scale, such <br />as at neighborhood or city-wide composting sites. <br />"Co -composting" is the composting of sewage sludge or septage with munici- <br />pal solid waste. <br />"Corrugated containers" consist of kraft linerboard cartons with corrugated <br />paper, typically used to ship materials. They do not include non -corrugated <br />containers such a chipboard or single -ply boxes (for example, a cereal <br />carton). Some cartons that are heavily coated or waxed and used to ship meats <br />and vegetables are not recycleable, and are classified as "other organics." <br />"Curb -side collection" means collection, at the point of generation, of recy- <br />clables or compostable materials. <br />85 <br />