The following definitions shall be applied to terms used in this chapter:
(a) "Waste" means all trash, rubbish, garbage, offal and other refuse or discarded matter required to be removed from private and public places. It does not include recognized by-products of any business or industry having commercial value and regularly handled in the ordinary course of business unless such by-products, or the handling of them, shall become a nuisance or menace to the public health.
(b) "Combustible waste" means all waste substances capable of incineration or burning, including garbage, paper, rags, excelsior, wood, grass, leaves and the like.
(c) "Noncombustible waste" means all waste substances incapable of incineration or burning, including tin cans, tin ware and other metallic substances, bottles, glassware, earthenware, ashes and similar materials, and also discarded articles the greater part of which is incapable of incineration or burning, such as asphalt roofing material, electric batteries and the like.
(d) "Garbage" means all putrescible wastes, including vegetable and animal offal, carcasses of dead animals and the like, excluding recognized industrial by-products.
(Ord. 2535-1965. Passed 10-8-65.)