Section 16-209. Definitions

As used in this title: a. "Solid waste" means
  all materials or  substances  discarded  or  rejected  as  being  spent,
  useless,  or  worthless,  including  but not limited to garbage, refuse,
  industrial and commercial waste, sludges from  air  or  water  pollution
  control facilities or water supply treatment facilities, rubbish, ashes,
  contained   gaseous   material,   incinerator  residue,  demolition  and
  construction debris and offal, but not including sewage and other highly
  diluted water-carried materials  or  substances  and  those  in  gaseous
  forms.
    b.  "Solid waste recovery and management facility" or "facility" means
  any facility, plant, works, system,  building,  structure,  improvement,
  machinery,  equipment,  fixture or other real or personal property which
  is to be used, occupied or  employed  beyond  the  initial  solid  waste
  collection  process  for  the  storage, processing, or disposal of solid
  waste or the recovery by any means of any material or energy product  or
  resource  therefrom  including  but  not  limited  to recycling centers,
  transfer  stations,  baling  facilities,  rail  haul   or   barge   haul
  facilities,  processing  systems,  resource recovery facilities or other
  facilities for reducing solid waste volume, sanitary  landfills,  plants
  and  facilities  for  compacting,  composting  or  pyrolization of solid
  wastes, incinerators, and  other  solid  waste  disposal,  reduction  or
  conversion  facilities.  For  the  purpose  of  this  title, solid waste
  recovery and management facilities  include  solid  waste  recovery  and
  management  projects as defined in subdivision two of section 51-0903 of
  the environmental conservation law.
    c. "Person" means any governmental body, except the city of New  York,
  public  corporation  or  authority,  private corporation, partnership or
  individual engaged in the business of removing, disposing of,  conveying
  or  transporting upon the streets, public places or bridges, or over the
  ferries in the city of solid waste.