Chapter 70A.205 RCW

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT—REDUCTION AND RECYCLING

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HTMLPDF 70A.205.005Legislative finding—Priorities—Goals.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.007Landfill disposal of organic materials—Goal.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.010Purpose.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.015Definitions.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.020Environmental excellence program agreements—Effect on chapter.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.025Standards for solid waste handling—Areas—Landfill location.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.030Inert waste landfills.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.035Implementation of standards—Assessment—Analyses—Proposals.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.040County comprehensive solid waste management plan—Joint plans—Requirements when updating—Duties of cities.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.045County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Contents.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.050County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Levels of service, reduction and recycling.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.055County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Review and approval process.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.060County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Review by department of agriculture.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.065Utilities and transportation commission to review local plan's assessment of cost impacts on rates.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.070Technical assistance for plan preparation—Guidelines—Informational materials and programs.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.075Maintenance of plans—Review, revisions—Implementation of source separation programs.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.080Financial aid to counties and cities.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.085Matching requirements.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.090Contracts with counties to assure proper expenditures.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.100Local board of health regulations to implement the comprehensive plan—Section not to be construed to authorize counties to operate system.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.105Local health departments may contract with the department of ecology.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.110Solid waste disposal facility siting—Site review—Local solid waste advisory committees—Membership.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.115Private businesses involvement in source separated materials—Local solid waste advisory committee to examine.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.120Permit for solid waste handling facility—Required.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.125Permit for solid waste handling facility—Applications, fee.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.130Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities—Review by department—Appeal of issuance—Validity of permits issued after June 7, 1984.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.135Permit for solid waste handling facility—Renewal—Appeal—Validity of renewal—Review fees.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.140Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities—Suspension.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.150Exemption from solid waste permit requirements—Medication disposal.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.155Hearing—Appeal—Denial, suspension—When effective.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.160Solid waste collection companies—Notice of changes in tipping fees and disposal rate schedules.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.165Landfill disposal facilities—Reserve accounts required by July 1, 1987—Exception—Rules.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.170Waste generated outside the state—Findings.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.175Waste generated outside the state—Solid waste disposal site facility reporting requirements—Fees.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.180Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments—Applications—Allocations.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.185Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments—Matching funds requirements.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.190Diversion of recyclable material—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.195Unlawful to dump or deposit solid waste without permit—Penalties—Litter cleanup restitution payment.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.200Name appearing on waste material—Presumption.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.205Disposal of sewage sludge or septic tank sludge prohibited—Exemptions—Uses of sludge material permitted.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.210Duties of department—State solid waste management plan—Assistance—Coordination—Tire recycling.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.215Additional powers and duties of department.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.220Department to cooperate with public and private departments, agencies, and associations.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.225Department authorized to disburse referendum 26 (RCW 43.83.330) fund for local government solid waste projects.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.230Department authorized to disburse funds under RCW 43.83.350 for local government solid waste projects.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.235Hazardous substance remedial actions—Procedural requirements not applicable.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.240Determination of best solid waste management practices—Department to develop method to monitor waste stream—Collectors to report quantity and quality of waste—Confidentiality of proprietary information.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.245Solid waste stream analysis.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.250Solid waste stream evaluation.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.255Analysis and evaluation to be incorporated in state solid waste management plan.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.260Solid waste—Beneficial uses—Permitting requirement exemptions.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.265Solid waste handling permit—Exemption from requirements—Application of section—Rules.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.270Composting of bovine and equine carcasses—Guidelines—Exemption from solid waste handling rules.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.275Rules—Department "deferring" to other permits—Application of section.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.280Penalty.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.285Construction.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.290Qualified anaerobic digesters exempt from permitting requirements of chapter—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.300Transporters—Definition—Registration required—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.310Transporters—Delivery of recyclable materials to transfer station or landfill prohibited—Records—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.320Damages.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.330Solid waste recyclers—Notice—Report—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.340Financial assurance requirements.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.400Disposal of vehicle tires outside designated area prohibited—Penalty—Exemption.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.405Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.410Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires—Failure to collect, pay to department—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.415Waste tire removal account.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.420Waste tire removal account—Use—Information required to be posted to department's website.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.425Waste tire removal account—Use of moneys.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.430Disposition of fee.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.435Cooperation with department to aid tire recycling.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.440Waste tires—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.445Waste tires—License for transport or storage business—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.450Waste tires—Violation of RCW 70A.205.445—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.455Waste tires—Contracts with unlicensed persons prohibited.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.460Limitations on liability.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.500Educational material promoting household waste reduction and recycling.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.505Battery disposal—Restrictions—Violators subject to fine—"Vehicle battery" defined.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.510Identification procedure for persons accepting used vehicle batteries.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.515Requirements for accepting used batteries by retailers of vehicle batteries—Notice.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.520Retail core charge.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.525Vehicle battery wholesalers—Obligations regarding used batteries—Noncompliance procedure.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.530Department to distribute printed notice—Issuance of warnings and citations—Fines.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.535Rules.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.540Source separated organic solid waste collection services—Fees—Exceptions—Rule making.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.545Certain businesses must arrange for organic materials management services—Enforcement authority—Requirements—Limitations of this section—Penalties—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.550Data to support the goals of the Washington center for sustainable food management—Voluntary reporting protocols.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.600Solid waste incineration or energy recovery facility—Environmental impact statement requirements.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.605Incineration of medical waste.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.610Sharps waste—Drop-off sites—Pharmacy return program.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.615Closure of energy recovery and incineration facilities—Recordkeeping requirements.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.620Paper conservation program—Paper recycling program.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.700Develop and establish objectives and strategies for the reuse and recycling of construction aggregate and recycled concrete materials.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.710Composting food and yard wastes—Grants and study.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.715Food waste reduction—Goal—Plan—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.720Development of standards for the management of compostable products—Process—Report to the legislature—Stakeholder advisory committee.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.730Cooperative program—State and local government.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.740Enforcement authority—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.750Collection bins—Color coding requirements.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.760Multifamily residential buildings—Requirements for organic materials waste and recycling collection containers.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.900Authority and responsibility of utilities and transportation commission not changed.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.901Application of chapter—Collection and transportation of recyclable materials by recycling companies or nonprofit entities—Reuse or reclamation.
HTMLPDF 70A.205.902Application of chapter—Steel slag.

Notes:

Airports: RCW 70A.200.110.
Commercial fertilizer: Chapter 15.54 RCW.
Environmental certification programs—Fees—Rules—Liability: RCW 43.21A.175.
Marinas: RCW 70A.200.110.
Solid waste collection tax: Chapter 82.18 RCW.
State parks: RCW 79A.05.045.
Waste reduction, recycling, litter control: Chapter 70A.200 RCW.