Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 23-90 - Responsible Recycling, Reuse and Disposal of Mattresses

• Brand: means a name, symbol, word or mark that attributes a mattress to the producer of such mattress. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Consumer: means an individual who is also a resident of this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Corporation: means the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Corporation Director: means the executive director of the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• council: means the organization created by producers to design, submit, and implement the mattress stewardship program described in § 23-90-5. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Covered entity: means any political subdivision of the state, any mattress retailer, any permitted transfer station, any waste to energy facility, any healthcare facility, any educational facility, any correctional facility, any military base, or any commercial or non profit lodging establishment that possesses a discarded mattress that was discarded in this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Discarded mattress: means any mattress that a consumer intends to discard, has discarded, or that is abandoned. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Energy recovery: means the process by which all or a portion of solid waste materials are processed or combusted in order to utilize the heat content or other forms of energy derived from such solid waste materials. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Foundation: means any ticking-covered structure that is used to support a mattress and that is composed of one or more of the following: A constructed frame, foam, or a box spring. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• Mattress: includes any foundation, renovated foundation, or renovated mattress. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Mattress core: means the main support system that is present in a mattress, including, but not limited to: springs, foam, air bladder, water bladder, or resilient filling. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Mattress stewardship fee: means the amount added to the purchase price of a mattress sold in this state that is necessary to cover the cost of collecting, transporting, and processing discarded mattresses by the council pursuant to the mattress stewardship program. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Mattress topper: means any item that contains resilient filling, with or without ticking, that is intended to be used with or on top of a mattress. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Producer: includes :

  (i)  The owner of a trademark or brand under which a mattress is sold, offered for sale, or distributed in this state, whether or not such trademark or brand is registered in this state; and

  (ii)  Any person who imports a mattress into the United States that is sold or offered for sale in this state and that is manufactured or renovated by a person who does not have a presence in the United States;

  (18)  "Recycling" means any process in which discarded mattresses, components, and by-products may lose their original identity or form as they are transformed into new, usable, or marketable materials. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3

• program: means the state wide, program described in § 23-90-5 and implemented pursuant to the mattress stewardship plan as approved by the corporation director. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Recycling: means any process in which discarded mattresses, components, and by-products may lose their original identity or form as they are transformed into new, usable, or marketable materials. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Renovator: means a person who renovates discarded mattresses for the purpose of reselling such mattresses in a retail store. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Retailer: means any person who sells mattresses in this state or offers mattresses in this state to a consumer through any means, including, but not limited to, remote offerings such as sales outlets, catalogs, or the internet. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Sale: means the transfer of title of a mattress for consideration, including through the use of a sales outlet, catalog, internet website, or similar electronic means. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Sterilization: means the mitigation of any deleterious substances or organisms including human disease-causing pathogens, fungi, and insects from a mattress or filling material using a process approved by the department of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• Ticking: means the outermost layer of fabric or material of a mattress. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Upholstery material: means all material, loose or attached, between the ticking and the core of a mattress. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-90-3