For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DISPOSAL SITE. Any place, including, but not limited to, a transfer station, at which solid waste is dumped, abandoned or accepted or disposed of by incineration, landfilling, composting, shredding, compaction, baling or any other method or by processing by pyrolysis, resource recovery or any other method, technique or process designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any solid waste so as to render such waste safe or non-hazardous, amenable to transport, recovery or storage or reduced in volume. A DISPOSAL SITE shall not include a manufacturing facility which processes scrap materials which have been separated for collection and processing as industrial raw materials.
GARBAGE. Every accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, or both, likely to decay or usually discarded as waste matter from kitchens, dining rooms, hotels, restaurants, boarding houses and dwelling houses of every kind, and shall include such waste animal or vegetable matter from public institutions, businesses, stores, markets and/or other establishments.
SOLID WASTE. All putrescible and non-putrescible refuse in solid, semisolid or liquid form including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes or incinerator residue, street refuse, dead animals, demolition wastes, construction wastes, solid or semisolid commercial and industrial wastes including explosives, biomedical wastes, chemical wastes, herbicide and pesticide wastes.
TRANSFER STATION. Any disposal site, processing facility or other place where solid waste is transferred from a vehicle or container to another vehicle or container for transportation, including, but not limited to, a barge or railroad unloading facility where solid waste, in bulk or in containers, is unloaded, stored, processed or transported for any purpose.
TRASH. Any accumulation of broken or discarded boxes, glass, metal vessels or containers; paper; straw; sawdust; ashes; iron or other metal; clothing; trimmings from trees, shrubs, grass or gardens; and such other similar waste matter usually discarded by business establishments or occupants of dwellings or living quarters.
(Prior Code, § 8-4-1) (Ord. 2009-4, passed 8-10-2009)