Debris

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-007391",
  "term": "Debris",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A broad category of large manufactured and naturally occurring objects that are commonly discarded (e.g., construction materials, decommissioned industrial equipment, discarded manufactured objects, tree trunks, boulders).\n\n2. Any solid material exceeding a 60 mm particle size that is intended for disposal and that is a manufactured object, or plant or animal matter, or natural geologic material.\n\n3. Woody material such as bark, twigs, branches, heartwood or sapwood that will not pass through a 2.54 cm (1.0 in) diameter round opening and is present in the discharge from a wet storage facility.\n\n4. Solid material exceeding a 60 mm particle size that is intended for disposal and that is: A manufactured object; or plant or animal matter; or natural geologic material. However, the following materials are not debris: any material for which a specific treatment standard is provided in Subpart D, Part 268, namely lead acid batteries, cadmium batteries, and radioactive lead solids; process residuals such as smelter slag and residues from the treatment of waste, wastewater, sludges, or air emission residues; and intact containers of hazardous waste that are not ruptured and that retain at least 75% of their original volume. A mixture of debris that has not been treated to the standards provided by § 268.45 and other material is subject to regulation as debris if the mixture is comprised primarily of debris, by volume, based on visual inspection.",
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "RCRA Glossary; RCRA Orientation Manual 2008 Glossary",
    "Land Disposal Restrictions Glossary",
    "40 CFR 429.11 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 268.2 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/debris/"
}