For the purpose of interpretation and enforcement of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTOR: Any person, firm or corporation who provides collection or removal services of garbage, refuse, recyclable materials or yard waste from non- residential areas, including commercial, business or industrial establishments and large multi-family developments included within the corporate limits of the Village.
GARBAGE: Wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food, and wastes from the handling, storage and sale of produce, and includes but is not limited to, food waste; animal, fruit, vegetable, fish or fowl matter; food containers of any nature and other material of any nature which is subject to rapid decay, putrefaction and generation of noxious gases or odors and which serve as breeding or feeding materials for insects, rodents or other animals.
LARGE MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: Any apartment complex of more than two (2) apartment buildings with a minimum of one hundred forty four (144) residential rental apartment units where the occupants lease dwelling space and do not own or pay Real Estate Taxes on the leased space and for which complex there is no homeowner, townhome, or condominium association, including the apartment complexes commonly known as the Bartlett Terrace Apartments and the Bartlett Lake Apartments.
NON-RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTION: The collection and/or removal of garbage, refuse, recyclable materials and/or yard waste from commercial, business, industrial properties or establishments and/or from large multi-family developments within the Village not included under the franchise or other contract entered by the Village with a residential solid waste collector.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS: Items which have post-consumer use or value, including but not limited to, the following: paper (newspaper, Kraft paper and mixed paper), glass, steel and bi- metal cans, aluminum, HDPE plastics (milk, water and laundry detergent bottles) and PET plastics (soda bottles).
REFUSE: Every type of waste material that is not garbage, including but not limited to, paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, furniture, bedding, ashes, cinders, construction debris, household appliances, furnishings and fixtures and all other material which is not subject to rapid decay or decomposition and which does not serve as a breeding or feeding material for insects, rodents or other animals.
RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTOR: Any firm or corporation that has entered a franchise or other contract with the Village to provide garbage, refuse, recyclables and/or yard waste collection and/or removal services from single family detached or attached residences or from multi-family residential complexes (except for large multi-family developments) located within the corporate limits of the Village.
SOLID WASTE COLLECTOR: Any person, firm or corporation who provides collection or removal services of garbage, refuse, recyclables or yard waste.
YARD WASTE: Accumulations of grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs and other materials accumulated as the result of the maintenance of lawns, shrubbery, vines and trees. (Ord. 2018-29, 4-3-2018)