NR 661.0001(3)(e)1.1. Employed as an ingredient, including use as an intermediate, in an industrial process to make a product, such as distillation bottoms from one process used as feedstock in another process. However, a material will not satisfy this condition if distinct components of the material are recovered as separate end products, as when metals are recovered from metal-containing secondary material. NR 661.0001(3)(e)2.2. Employed in a particular function or application as an effective substitute for a commercial product, such as spent pickle liquor used as phosphorous precipitant and sludge conditioner in wastewater treatment. NR 661.0001(3)(f)(f) “Scrap metal” means bits and pieces of metal parts, such as bars, turnings, rods, sheets, wire, or metal pieces that may be combined together with bolts or soldering, such as radiators, scrap automobiles, or railroad box cars, which when worn or superfluous, can be recycled. NR 661.0001(3)(h)(h) “Accumulated speculatively” means a material that is accumulated before being recycled. NR 661.0001(3)(h)1.1. A material is not accumulated speculatively if the person accumulating it can show all of the following: NR 661.0001(3)(h)1.a.a. The material is potentially recyclable and has a feasible means of being recycled. NR 661.0001(3)(h)1.b.b. During the calendar year commencing on January 1, the amount of material that is recycled, or transferred to a different site for recycling, equals at least 75 percent by weight or volume of the amount of that material accumulated at the beginning of the period. NR 661.0001(3)(h)2.2. Materials that are accumulated speculatively shall be placed in a storage unit with a label indicating the first date that the material began to be accumulated. If placing a label on the storage unit is not practicable, the accumulation period shall be documented through an inventory log or other appropriate method. NR 661.0001(3)(h)3.3. In calculating the percentage of turnover for materials that are accumulated speculatively, the 75 percent requirement shall be applied to each material of the same type, such as slags from a single smelting process, that is recycled in the same way. Materials accumulating in units that are exempt from regulation under s. NR 661.0004 (3) may not be included in making the calculation. NR 661.0001(3)(h)4.4. Materials that are accumulated speculatively that are already defined as solid wastes may not be included in making the calculation. NR 661.0001(3)(h)5.5. Materials that are accumulated speculatively are no longer in this category once they are removed from accumulation for recycling. NR 661.0001(3)(i)(i) “Excluded scrap metal” means processed scrap metal, unprocessed home scrap metal, and unprocessed prompt scrap metal. NR 661.0001(3)(j)(j) “Processed scrap metal” means scrap metal that has been manually or physically altered to either separate it into distinct materials to enhance economic value or to improve the handling of materials. Processed scrap metal includes scrap metal that has been baled, shredded, sheared, chopped, crushed, flattened, cut, melted, or separated by metal type, and, fines, drosses and related materials that have been agglomerated. NR 661.0001 NoteNote: Shredded circuit boards being sent for recycling are not considered processed scrap metal. They are covered under the exclusion from the definition of solid waste for shredded circuit boards being recycled under s. NR 661.0004 (1) (n). NR 661.0001(3)(k)(k) “Home scrap metal” means scrap metal generated by steel mills, foundries, and refineries such as turnings, cuttings, punchings, and borings. NR 661.0001(3)(L)(L) “Prompt scrap metal” means scrap metal generated by the metal working and fabrication industries and includes such scrap metal as turnings, cuttings, punchings, and borings. NR 661.0001 NoteNote: Prompt scrap is also known as industrial or new scrap metal.
NR 661.0001 HistoryHistory: CR 19-082: cr. Register August 2020 No. 776, eff. 9-1-20; correction in (1) (a), (2) (a), (b) (intro.), (3) (c), (h) 1. b. made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register August 2020 No. 776; correction in (3) (b) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats., Register April 2021 No. 784. NR 661.0002(1)(b)(b) “Discarded material” means any material that is one of the following: NR 661.0002(2)(2) Materials are solid wastes if they are abandoned by being any of the following: