As used in KRS § 224.46-315 to KRS § 224.46-325, “pollution prevention,” shall mean in-plant practices, including, but not limited to, process modifications, feedstock substitutions, product reformulation management practices or housekeeping alterations, recycling within industrial processes, or equipment replacement or modifications, that reduce, avoid, or eliminate the generation of hazardous waste or the release of toxic chemicals at their source, rather than controlling, treating, or managing hazardous waste or toxic chemicals after their generation or release, to reduce the risks to employees, public health, and the environment. Pollution prevention shall not include actions taken at locations away from the pollution-generating activity, including recycling or treatment, or concentrating the hazardous content of a waste, or the toxic content of a toxic chemical, to reduce volume, or diluting to reduce the degree of hazard or toxicity.
Effective: July 15, 1994

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.46-310

  • Hazardous waste: means any discarded material or material intended to be discarded or substance or combination of such substances intended to be discarded, in any form which because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • 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 refuse-derived fuel when processed in accordance with administrative regulations established by the cabinet, but does not include the incineration or combustion of materials for the recovery of energy. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any waste so as to neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Waste: means :
    (a) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coal mining wastes, coal mining by-products, refuse, and overburden), agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include those materials including, but not limited to, sand, soil, rock, gravel, or bridge debris extracted as part of a public road construction project funded wholly or in part with state funds, recovered material, post-use polymers or recovered feedstocks, tire-derived fuel, special wastes as designated by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010

History: Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 460, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1994. — Created
1988 Ky. Acts ch. 166, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.980.

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