Attachment A Definitions.docx

APPENDIX B - DEFINITIONS

1. Recyclable Paper Material: Paper materials identified in the following definitions as being recyclable under recycling laws.

a. Paper Grades: Grade 1 (High Grade): White copy paper; Grade 2 (Medium Grade): mixed paper, i.e., computer printout, white ledger, hard white shavings, manila tabulating cards, etc. No more than one percent (1 %) total of prohibitive materials or out throws by volume in the case of either grade.

b. Prohibitive Materials:

b.i. Any materials which, by their presence as a part of the recyclables, or as present in packing of the recyclable materials, are in excess of the amount allowed, or will make the materials unusable as the grade specified.

b.ii. Any materials that may be damaging to equipment.

c. Out Throws of Recyclable Paper Material: Out throws of recyclable paper material are all papers that are so manufactured, treated, or are in such forms as to be unsuitable for consumption as the grade specified.

d. Computer Printout: Consists of white sulfite or sulfate papers in forms manufactured for use in data processing machines. This grade may contain colored stripes and/or impact or no impact (e.g., laser) computer printing, and may contain not more than five percent (5%) of ground wood in the packing. All stock shall be untreated and uncoated.

e. File Stock: Consists of discarded correspondence files, record files as determined and developed by the Government without limitations as prohibitive materials and/or out throws, including some carbon paper.

f. Hard White Shavings: Consist of shavings or sheets of all untreated white bond ledger or writing papers. Hard white shavings shall be free from printing and ground wood.

g. Heavy Books: Consist of dry, clean, used, and over-used books and magazines; stitch less stock; and similar printed matter. This category grade may contain such bleach sulfite and sulfate books and magazines adulterated with fine ground wood as are acceptable to the consumer.

2. Notification (Notice): Unscheduled material dumping, pulling and/or tipping of containers shall be accomplished within twenty-four (24) hours after the NIST Janitorial Services Shop has notified the contractor by phone.

3. Refuse: Refuse comprises all of the solid waste on the NIST campus, including ash and saw dust. Hazardous waste is not included. Waste is considered hazardous by reason of its pathological, explosive, incendiary, radioactive, caustic, or toxic nature.

4. Rubbish: A variety of insoluble waste material, such as crockery, floor sweepings, paper wrappings, container cartons, and similar articles not used in preparing or dispensing food. (Note that glass and metal cans in most cases shall be recycled and should not be considered rubbish.) Rubbish is further subdivided into the following:

a. Combustible: can be burned readily in an incinerator or burning pit; and

b. Noncombustible: cannot be burned at ordinary incinerator temperatures of 426.6 to 982.2 degrees Celsius (800 to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit).

The terms trash and rubbish are used interchangeably.

5. Ash: Ash is the residue from burning wood, coal, coke, and other combustible material. Ash usually consists of a mixture of fine, powdery residue.

6. Debris: Includes, but not limited to, grass cuttings, tree trimmings, stumps, street sweepings, roofing and construction wastes, and similar waste materials, plaster, wallboard, stone, ceramic tile, old fluorescent tubes and contaminated wood, etc. Contaminated wood includes scrap lumber, crates, wooden boxes, skids, etc. Some of these “debris” items can be recycled, e.g., grass cuttings, fluorescent tubes, and skids.

7. Garbage: Garbage is the animal and vegetable waste resulting from handling, preparing, cooking, and serving foods.

8. Closed Container: Closed containers are dumpsters if they are of a type to facilitate loading by personnel from the side or top from a normal standing position. As such, they have no integral charge unit. They are of a type affording mechanical handling and hoisting for emptying into a front - end loader truck.

9. Tipping: involves the process of emptying a closed container with no integral charge unit, i.e., a dumpster, into a front-end loader truck through mechanical handling and hoisting. The container may hold rubbish, debris, etc., or recyclable items such as recyclable paper, cardboard, etc.

10. Loose Trash: Loose trash consists of office rubbish bagged in plastic bags, gathered in mobile carts (“brutes”), or stored in trash rooms, receiving rooms, or loading docks. Office refuse is predominantly (i.e., 55% - 88%) paper material, and on the average 71%. Lunch and food wrappings, cans and glass, metal fasteners, plastic and some fabric materials make up the remainder of the office trash waste stream.

11. Self-contained Compactor (SCC): A closed container that has its charge unit as an integral part of the container. Compatibility ratio shall be approximately 4 to l, with a capacity of 15.3 cubic meters (20 cubic yards).

12. Aluminum Cans: Aluminum cans consisting of old, decorated, or clear cans which may contain some dirt, liquid, and/or other foreign contamination. Contamination shall not consist of more than ten percent of the total weight of any load pick-up.

13. Loading Docks: The NIST designated area at each Attachment 1 building location where the dumpsters and compactors are located.

14. Contractor Containers: Those containers provided by the contractor and approved by the contracting officer’s technical representative (COR) to store and transport refuse and recyclables.

15. Used Beverage Containers (UBC): These are old can stock consisting for the most part of non-ferrous metals; however, some tin and other metals may be present. UBC’s also include clear glass and plastic water bottles.

16. Lock-ready: Containers that have been “made ready” with chains or other means of locking the container doors.