For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING MATERIAL SCRAPS. Scrap building material from the construction, reconstruction, remodeling, or repair of a building, walkway, driveway, signs, and or other structures, including, but not limited to, excavated earth, tree stumps, rocks, gravel, bricks, plaster, concrete, lumber, or any other similar material used in construction or containers or wrappings therefor.
BULKY WASTE. Large items of solid waste such as furniture, white goods, large auto parts, stumps, and other oversize wastes whose large size precludes or complicates its handling by normal solid waste collection, processing, or disposal methods.
COLLECTION. The act of removing solid waste or recyclable material to a transfer station, processing facility, or disposal facility. For the purposes of this chapter, any collection receptacles or containers located on town property are considered to be in the stream of COLLECTION.
GARBAGE. Animal and vegetable matter resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, in cans, glassware, or other containers, rags, waste paper, includes all putrescible wastes, but excludes sewage and human waste.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. A solid waste or combination of solid wastes, including liquid or gaseous wastes, which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
(1) Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
(2) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
MEDICAL WASTE. Any solid waste that is generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human beings or animals, in research pertaining thereto, or the production of biologicals.
MIXED PAPER. Envelopes, catalogs, bulk mail, magazines, computer paper, copy paper, file folders, phone books, gray cartons, adding machine tapes, letters, scratch pads, soft-covered books, and other material as defined by the Director of Public Works.
PATHOLOGICAL WASTE. Human tissues, organs, and body parts, and the carcasses and body parts of any animals that were known to have been exposed to pathogens that are potentially dangerous to humans during research, were used in the production of biologists or in vivo testing of pharmaceuticals, or that humans died with a known or suspected disease transmissible to humans.
PUTRESCIBLE. Solid waste capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances from odors and gases; such as kitchen wastes, offal, and animal carcasses.
RECYCLE, RECYCLABLES, or RECYCLABLE MATERIAL. Those materials or that process by which solid waste, or materials which would otherwise become solid waste, are collected, separated, or processed or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products.
REFUSE. Solid waste that is non-putrescible waste collected from residences.
SHARPS. Needles, syringes, and scalpel blades
SOLID WASTE. Garbage refuse, including SOLID WASTE materials resulting from residential and business activities, but does not include solids or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants.
WHITE GOODS. Inoperative and discarded refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, and other similar domestic and commercial large appliances.
YARD TRASH. Solid waste consisting solely of vegetative matter resulting from landscaping maintenance. Includes grass clippings, leaves, sod, tree limbs, and weeds.
(2013 Code, § 9-1)