Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 324. Natural Resources and Environmental Protection § 324.19103

Sec. 19103. (1) “Private entity” means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation, or association that is not a local unit of government.

(2) “Recycling project” means a project in which materials that otherwise would become solid waste are collected, separated, or processed and returned for conversion into raw materials or products.

(3) “Resource recovery” means the processing or collecting of solid wastes so as to produce materials or energy that may be used in manufacturing, agriculture, heat production, or other productive processes or purposes designed to reuse materials or products or to conserve natural resources.

(4) “Site separated material” means glass, metals, wood, paper products, plastics, rubber, textiles, or any other material approved by the department that is separated from solid waste for conversion into raw materials or new products.

(5) “Solid waste” means solid waste as defined in part 115.  1

(6) “Solid waste transfer facility” means a solid waste transfer facility as defined in part 115.

(7) “Source separated material” means glass, metals, wood, paper products, plastics, rubber, textiles, or any other material approved by the department that is separated at the source of generation for conversion into raw material or new products.

(8) “Waste-to-energy” means a process that is specifically designed to recover energy through the combustion or volume reduction of solid waste.