South Carolina Code 44-96-110. Establishment of the Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling
(B) The Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling shall have the following duties and responsibilities:
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 44-96-110
- Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
- Office: means the Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling established within the Department of Health and Environmental Control pursuant to § 44-96-110. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
- Recovered materials: means those materials which have known use, reuse, or recycling potential; can be feasibly used, reused, or recycled; and have been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse, or recycling, whether or not requiring subsequent separation and processing. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
- Recycling: means any process by which materials which would otherwise become solid waste are collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products (including composting). See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
- Resource recovery: means the process of obtaining material or energy resources from solid waste which no longer has any useful life in its present form and preparing the waste for recycling. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
- Solid waste: means any garbage, refuse, or sludge from a waste treatment facility, water supply plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community activities. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
- Solid waste management: means the systematic control of the generation, collection, source separation, storage, transportation, treatment, recovery, and disposal of solid waste. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
- Solid Waste Management Grant Program: means the grant program established and administered by the Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling pursuant to § 44-96-130. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
- Solid Waste Management Trust Fund: means the trust fund established within the Department of Health and Environmental Control pursuant to § 44-96-120. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
- Source separation: means the act or process of removing a particular type of recyclable material from other waste at the point of generation or under control of the generator for the purposes of collection, disposition, and recycling. See South Carolina Code 44-96-40
(1) receive funds for and disburse funds from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund established in § 44-96-120;
(2) manage the Solid Waste Management Grant Program established in § 44-96-130;
(3) promote and assist in the development of solid waste reduction, source separation, recycling, household hazardous materials management programs, and resource recovery programs;
(4) maintain a directory of recycling and resource recovery systems in the State and provide assistance in matching recovered materials with markets;
(5) provide for the education of the general public and the training of solid waste management professionals to encourage recycling and solid waste reduction;
(6) develop descriptive literature to educate local governments on solid waste reduction and recycling issues.
(C) The Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling shall develop guidelines for the establishment and implementation of recycling education grants to school districts and public and private schools to establish waste reduction and recycling education programs. The office shall develop guidelines for the establishment and implementation of recycling education grants to public and private colleges and universities to establish waste reduction and recycling education programs and demonstration projects. The office shall notify the superintendent of each school district and each public and private school and public and private college and university of the existence of the grant programs and provide information on how to apply for the program. Upon request of the school, the office shall provide technical assistance. The office shall determine the number of grant projects that may be feasibly initiated in a single calendar year. The office, in consultation with the Department of Education, also shall develop and make available to public and private schools, upon request, curriculum materials and resource guides for recycling awareness programs for instruction at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.