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"Local governmental unit" means any municipal corporation or gover-mental
<br />subdivision other than a metropolitan county located in whole or part in the
<br />Metropolitan Area, authorized by law to provide for the processing of solid
<br />waste (Minn. Stat., sec. 473.802).
<br />"Market development" means the location and facilitation of economic markets
<br />for materials, substances, energy or other products contained within or derived
<br />from waste (Minn. Stat., sec. 473.842, subd. 2).
<br />"Mass -burn incinerator" means a solid waste combustion facility that is
<br />designed to burn unprocessed mixed municipal waste.
<br />"Metropolitan Area" or "region" means the area over which the Metropolitan
<br />Council has jurisdiction, including the counties of Anoka, Carver Dakota,
<br />Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington (Minn. Stat., sec. 473.1211.
<br />"Metropolitan counties" or "counties" refers to the seven counties of Anoka,
<br />Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington.
<br />"Metropolitan Council" or "Council" means the Metropolitan Council established
<br />by Minn. Stat., sec. 473.121.
<br />"Metropolitan Urban Service Area" is the portion of the Metropolitan Area in
<br />which urban development or redevelopment exists or is planned.
<br />"Mixed municipal solid waste" means garbage, refuse, and other solid waste from
<br />residential, commercial, industrial and community activities that is generated
<br />and collected in aggregate, but does not include auto hulks, street sweepings,
<br />ash, construction debris, mining waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes,
<br />tires, and other materials collected, processed and disposed of as separate
<br />waste streams (Minn. Stat., sec. 115A.03, subd. 21).
<br />"Mixed waste paper" consists of all short- and long -fiber papers that can be
<br />repulped. It includes printing, writing, and computing papers, magazines, food
<br />cartons, envelopes, grocery sacks and other commercial and residential waste
<br />fiber. It does not include items contaminated by other materials such as metal
<br />(an orange juice can), plastics (a envelope window, wax (milk carton) or other
<br />nonpaper materials, or waste paper contaminated by food wastes.
<br />"Mulching" means the use or placement of grass clippings or other organic mate-
<br />rials over a lawn or garden so as to improve conditions for vegetative growth.
<br />"Municipality" means a city created by or pursuant to state law.
<br />"Newspaper" consists of printed, groundwood newsprint, including glossy adver-
<br />tising inserts and Sunday -edition magazines.
<br />"Organized collection" means a solid waste collection system wherein overlap of
<br />a) collection service areas and b) types of collection services is prevented or
<br />controlled. The organizing body may be public or private, and may exert its
<br />control by directly providing the collection service or by contracting for
<br />collection services.
<br />"Other inorganics" consist of other noncombustible, nonmetallic material such
<br />as rocks and ceramics.
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