As used in ORS § 459A.650 to 459A.665:

(1) ‘Package’ means any container used to protect, store, contain, transport, display or sell products.

(2) ‘Package manufacturer’ means the producer or generator of a rigid plastic container for a packaged product that is sold or offered for sale in Oregon.

(3) ‘Product-associated package’ means a brand-specific rigid plastic container line, which may have one or more sizes, shapes or designs and which is used in conjunction with a particular, generic product line.

(4) ‘Product manufacturer’ means the producer or generator of a packaged product that is sold or offered for sale in Oregon in a rigid plastic container.

(5) ‘Recycled content’ means the portion of a package’s weight that is composed of recycled material, as determined by a material balance approach that calculates total recycled material input as a percentage of total material input in the manufacture of the package.

(6) ‘Recycled material’ means a material that would otherwise be destined for solid waste disposal, having completed its intended end use or product life cycle. Recycled material does not include materials and by-products generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing and fabrication process.

(7) ‘Rigid plastic container’ means any package composed predominantly of plastic resin which has a relatively inflexible finite shape or form with a minimum capacity of eight ounces and a maximum capacity of five gallons, and that is capable of maintaining its shape while holding other products. [1991 c.385 § 34a; 1993 c.560 § 96; 1993 c.568 § 1]