1. “Scrap metal” means nonferrous metals, scrap iron, stainless steel or other material or equipment which consists in whole or in part of metal and which is used in construction, agricultural operations, electrical power generation, transmission or distribution, cable, broadband or telecommunications transmission, railroad equipment, oil well rigs or any lights maintained by the State or a local government, including, without limitation, street lights, traffic-control devices, park lights or ballpark lights.
2. The term does not include waste generated by a household, aluminum beverage containers, used construction scrap iron, materials consisting of a metal product in its original manufactured form which contains not more than 20 percent by weight nonferrous metal, used utility wire or used catalytic converters.