For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given herein unless their use in the text of this chapter clearly demonstrates a different meaning:
ACT: | The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (sometimes referred to as “AB 939"), Public Resources Code § 40000 and following as it may be amended, and as implemented by the regulations of CalRecycle. |
ALLEY SERVICE: | Such service where solid waste containers are placed at the property line in through alleys. |
BIN CONTAINER SERVICE: | A stationary container supported on casters or skids and approved by the city manager or his designee for mechanical handling by the collection trucks. |
CALRECYCLE: | The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, or its successor agency. |
COMMERCIAL EDIBLE FOOD GENERATOR: | includes a tier one or a tier two commercial edible food generator as defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(73) and (a)(74). |
COMPACTED WASTE: | Solid waste which is mechanically compressed to reduce the dimensions of the waste. |
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTES: | Shall mean and include the waste building materials, packaging, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of pavements and structures. |
CURB SERVICE: | Such service where the solid waste containers are picked up by the city at the front curb line of the customer’s property. |
DISCARDED: | Thrown away, abandoned, worthless, or having lack of economic value. |
EDIBLE FOOD: | Food intended for human consumption, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(18). For the purposes of this chapter or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(18), “edible food” is not solid waste if it is recovered and not discarded. Nothing in this chapter or in 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 requires or authorizes the recovery of edible food that does not meet the food safety requirements of the California Retail Food Code. |
FOOD RECOVERY ORGANIZATION: | An entity that engages in the collection or receipt of edible food from commercial edible food generators and distributes that edible food to the public for food recovery either directly or through other entities or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(25), including, but not limited to: |
A. A food bank as defined in Section 113783 of the Health and Safety Code; | |
B. A nonprofit charitable organization as defined in Section 113841 of the Health and Safety code; and | |
C. A nonprofit charitable temporary food facility as defined in Section 113842 of the Health and Safety Code. | |
FOOD RECOVERY SERVICE: | An entity that collects and transports edible food from a commercial edible food generator to a food recovery organization or other entities for food recovery. |
HAULER: | A person who collects material from a generator and delivers it to a reporting entity, end user, or a destination outside of the state. “Hauler” includes public contract haulers, private contract haulers, food waste self-haulers, and self-haulers. A person who transports material from a reporting entity to another person is a transporter, not a hauler. |
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE: | Those wastes resulting from products purchased by the general public for household use which, because of their quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may pose a substantial known or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, disposed, or otherwise managed. The city manager or his designee shall determine those substances deemed hazardous for the purpose of the city’s disposal system. |
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: | Solid wastes or waste material resulting or left over from industrial processes and manufacturing operations, including, but not limited to, fibers, fabrics, plastics, styrofoam, rubber, resins, metals, slag, wood products such as sawdust and shavings, packing materials, putrescible material from food processing plants and slaughterhouses, condemned foods, cinders and ashes from power plants and incinerators, and miscellaneous manufacturing wastes. Such industrial waste is distinguished from ordinary commercial refuse or so called trade wastes which emanate from stores, hotels, restaurants, and markets. |
MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING: | A building designed for residential occupancy and shall include duplexes, triplexes, apartments of four (4) or more units, bungalows in a bungalow court, apartment houses, flats, condominium units, and mobile homes. |
ORGANIC MATERIALS, ORGANICS, and ORGANIC WASTE: | Food scraps and trimmings from food preparation, including but not limited to: meat, fish and dairy waste, fruit and vegetable waste, grain waste, stable matter, and acceptable food packaging items such as pizza boxes, paper towels, waxed cardboard, food-contaminated paper products, plant debris, such as palm, yucca and cactus, ivy, grass clippings, leaves, pruning, weeds, branches, brush, and holiday trees. Classification of materials subject to change pending Refuse Contractor processing capability. |
ORGANIC WASTE GENERATOR: | A person or entity that is responsible for the initial creation of organic waste, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(48) of SB 1383. |
RECYCLABLES: | Shall include those materials that have value and can be diverted from landfill disposal. “Recyclables” can further be defined as those materials that by collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, reconstituting, and processing can be returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials for new, reused, or reconstituted products. |
REFUSE or GARBAGE: | Rags, household ashes, wearing apparel, household goods and such worthless, useless, unused, rejected and cast off matter produced by and as the result of human habitation and the transaction of business within the city, that can be properly and safely collected and transported in a collection vehicle. |
RESIDENTIAL PREMISES: | All residentially zoned lots used for residential purposes, excluding premises with multi-family structures consisting of five or more units. |
SB 1383: | The Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: Methane Emissions: Dairy and Livestock: Organic Waste: Landfills Act of 2016. Article 4 Title 14, Division 4, Chapter 12 of the California Code of Regulations. |
SELF-HAULER: | A generator that collects solid waste at their premises or place of business for the purpose of hauling those materials in their own vehicles to a permitted solid waste facility in compliance with the requirements of this chapter. |
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING: | Any detached building used exclusively for occupancy by one family, excluding bungalows in a bungalow court, residential condominium units, and mobile homes. |
SOLID WASTE: | All putrescible and non-putrescible solid and semisolid wastes; including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid wastes, and other discarded solid and semisolid wastes. “Solid waste” does not include hazardous, low level radioactive, or medical wastes. “Solid waste” as herein defined shall not include materials source-separated by the generator for the purpose of recycling, reuse, repair or composting. |
SPECIAL PICK UP: | The collection of solid waste that exceeds the scope of standard residential or commercial service as set forth in this chapter, or any material not defined in this section as solid waste. |
STANDARD RESIDENTIAL CONTAINER: | Roll out container(s) provided by city. |
TIER ONE COMMERCIAL EDIBLE FOOD GENERATOR: | A commercial edible food generator that is one of the following: |
A. Supermarkets with gross annual sales of $2,000,000 or more. | |
B. Grocery store with a total facility size equal to or greater than 10,000 square feet. | |
C. Food service provider. | |
D. Wholesale food vendor. | |
SB 1383 Tier 1 commercial edible food generators are required to comply with SB 1383 regulations by January 1, 2022 or face significant financial penalties as prescribed in 14 CCR Section 18997.2, City Code Chapter 13-24 (Penalty for Violation), or City Code Chapter 2 Article XIV (Administrative Citations) as determined by the City Manager and/or his or her designee. | |
TIER TWO COMMERCIAL EDIBLE FOOD GENERATOR: | A commercial edible food generator that is one of the following: |
A. Restaurant with 250 or more seats, or a total facility size equal to or greater than 5,000 square feet. | |
B. Hotel with an on-site food facility and 200 or more rooms. | |
C. Health facility with an on-site food facility and 100 or more beds. | |
D. Large venue. | |
E. Large event. | |
F. A state agency with a cafeteria with 250 or more seats or total cafeteria facility size equal to or greater than 5,000 square feet. | |
G. A local education agency facility with an on-site food facility. | |
SB 1383 Tier 2 Commercial edible food generators are required to comply with SB 1383 regulations by January 1, 2024 or face significant financial penalties as prescribed in 14 CCR Section 18997.2, City Code Chapter 13-24 (Penalty for Violation), or City Code Chapter 2 Article XIV (Administrative Citations), or any other applicable enforcement provision of this Code, as determined by the City Manager and/or his or her designee. | |
WASTE MATTER: | Solid waste such as heavy or bulk materials which can be properly and safely collected and transported by special pick up vehicles. The city manager or his designee shall determine those materials suitable for special pick up service. |
YARD WASTE: | Lawn clippings, tree and shrubbery trimmings, and leaves that can be properly and safely collected and transported in a collection vehicle. (Ord. 1615, 10-1-2002; Ord. 1890, 3-1-2022) |