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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58782</law_id><section_number>10.1-1414</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>10.1-1422.06</reference><reference>10.1-200.2</reference><reference>15.2-937</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="10.1">Conservation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Activities Administered by Other Entities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="14">Virginia Waste Management Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Litter Control and Recycling</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Advisory Board</span>&#x201D; means the Litter Control and Recycling <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> <span class="dictionary">Advisory Board</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Beneficial use</span>&#x201D; means a use that is of benefit as a substitute for natural or commercial products and does not contribute to adverse effects on health or the environment. <span class="dictionary">Beneficial use</span> products are produced by facilities that include beneficiation facilities and <span class="dictionary">recycling centers</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Beneficiation facility</span>&#x201D; means a facility that uses methods including sorting by color, removal of contaminants, crushing, grinding, screening, grading, and monitoring of size and quality to produce clean, crushed glass cullet that satisfies the specifications of the end user of the cullet, including a manufacturer of glass <span class="dictionary">containers</span> or fiberglass.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Disposable package</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;container&#x201D; means all packages or <span class="dictionary">containers</span> intended or used to contain solids, liquids or <span class="dictionary">materials</span> and so designated.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Expanded polystyrene food service container</span>&#x201D; means a rigid single-use container made primarily of expanded polystyrene and used in the restaurant and food service industry for serving or transporting prepared, ready-to-consume food or beverages. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Expanded polystyrene food service container</span>&#x201D; includes plates, cups, bowls, trays, and hinged <span class="dictionary">containers</span> but does not include packaging for unprepared foods or packaging, including a cooler, used in the shipment of food.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Food vendor</span>&#x201D; means an establishment that provides <span class="dictionary">prepared food</span> for public consumption on or off its premises and includes a store, shop, sales outlet, restaurant, grocery store, supermarket, delicatessen, or catering truck or <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span>; any other <span class="dictionary">person</span> who provides <span class="dictionary">prepared food</span>; and any individual, organization, group, or state or local government entity that regularly provides food as a part of its services.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Fund</span>&#x201D; means the Litter Control and Recycling <span class="dictionary">Fund</span>.
		&#x201C;Litter&#x201D; means all waste <span class="dictionary">material</span> <span class="dictionary">disposable packages</span> or <span class="dictionary">containers</span> but not including the <span class="dictionary">wastes</span> of the primary processes of mining, logging, sawmilling, farming, or manufacturing.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Litter bag</span>&#x201D; means a bag, sack, or durable <span class="dictionary">material</span> which is large enough to serve as a receptacle for litter inside a <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span> or <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> which is similar in size and capacity to a state approved <span class="dictionary">litter bag</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Litter receptacle</span>&#x201D; means <span class="dictionary">containers</span> acceptable to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> for the depositing of litter.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person</span>&#x201D; means any natural <span class="dictionary">person</span>, corporation, association, firm, receiver, guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative or group of individuals or entities of any kind.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Prepared food</span>&#x201D; means a food or beverage prepared for consumption on or off a <span class="dictionary">food vendor</span>&#x2019;s premises, using any cooking or food preparation technique. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Prepared food</span>&#x201D; does not include raw or uncooked meat, fish, or eggs provided without further food preparation.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Public place</span>&#x201D; means any area that is used or held out for use by the public, whether owned or operated by public or private interests.
		&#x201C;Recycling&#x201D; means the process of separating a given waste <span class="dictionary">material</span> from the waste stream and processing it so that it may be used again as a raw <span class="dictionary">material</span> for a product which may or may not be similar to the original product.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Recycling center</span>&#x201D; means a facility that (i) accepts recyclable <span class="dictionary">materials</span> that have already been separated at the source from municipal <span class="dictionary">solid waste</span> generated by either residential or commercial producers; (ii) processes source segregated recyclable <span class="dictionary">materials</span>, including mixed-paper fiber <span class="dictionary">materials</span>, metal and plastic postconsumer <span class="dictionary">containers</span>, and glass <span class="dictionary">containers</span>; and (iii) processes and sells recyclable <span class="dictionary">materials</span> according to end-user specifications. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Recycling center</span>&#x201D; does not include a facility for construction and demolition debris processing, sorting of municipal <span class="dictionary">solid waste</span>, incineration, sorting or processing of industrial waste, <span class="dictionary">composting</span>, or used tire processing.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Sold within the Commonwealth</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">sales of the business within the Commonwealth</span>&#x201D; means all sales of retailers engaged in business within the Commonwealth and in the case of manufacturers and wholesalers, sales of products for use and consumption within the Commonwealth.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Vehicle</span>&#x201D; includes every device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in, upon, or by which any <span class="dictionary">person</span> or property may be transported upon a public highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Watercraft</span>&#x201D; means any boat, ship, vessel, barge, or other floating craft.</p></section></text><history>1987, c. 234, &#xA7; 10-277.1; 1988, c. 891; 1995, c. 417; 2018, c. 615; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 262.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
