Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requiresCAP. 328. “Act” means the Environmental Protection Act; “carrier” means a person accepting for transportation or transporting wastes for storage, treatment or disposal; “container” means any portable device in which a waste is stored, including but not limited to drums, barrels, and pails; CAP. 328. CAP. 328. CAP. 328. “Chief Environmental Officer” means the Chief Environmental Officer appointed under the Act; “Department” means the Department of the Environment established under Section 3 of the Act; “Designated Officer” means a designated officer as defined in section 2 of the Act; “disposal” means the intentional release of untreated hazardous wastes into, or onto land, air or water; “empty container” means a container that contains less than 2.5 centimetres of residue remaining at the bottom of the container Environmental Protection 293 or less than 3% of the original contents, whichever is the lesser amount; “farmer” means a person engaged in the primary production of an agricultural, horticultural, or arboricultural operation for financial gain; “generator” means any person whose activity produces hazardous wastes or other wastes, or if that person is not known, the person who is in possession and/or control of those wastes; “hazardous wastes” means any material or substance characterized as being toxic, corrosive, flammable, reactive, explosive, infectious, or pathogenic that may pose a threat to the environment and human health. and includes waste that areSchedule Table 1. (a) listed in Table l of the Schedule; or (b) defined by the criteria specified in Table 2 of the Schedule; or Schedule Table 2. (c) listed in Annex l of the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous “hazardous waste management facility” means a facility for the collection, storage, treatment, or disposal of hazardous wastes which is authorized or permitted to operate for this purpose by the Department; “incompatible waste” means a hazardous waste that is unsuitable for placement in a particular device, machine or facility because it may cause corrosion or decay of containment materials, or for commingling with another waste or material under uncontrolled conditions because the commingling might produce heat or pressure, fire or explosion, violent reaction, toxic dusts, mists, fumes or gases, or flammable fumes or gases; 294 Environmental Protection “treatment” includes, in relation to waste, any thermal, physical, chemical or biological processes that change the characteristics of waste in order to reduce its volume or hazardous nature or facilitates its handling, disposal or recovery; “waste” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Act.