As used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases have the following meanings:
ASSOCIATION: All cooperative organizations of residential dwelling owners formed for the purpose of joint management of property or services.
COLLECTION: The aggregation of mixed municipal solid waste from the place at which it is generated and includes all activities up to the time the waste is delivered to a waste facility.
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS: Waste building materials, packaging, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of buildings and roads.
GARBAGE: Animal, vegetable, or other putrescible wastes, but excluding human excreta, sewage, or other forms of water carried wastes.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: The following waste from an industrial or manufacturing business that is managed as a separate waste stream: ash, sand, wood waste, contaminated soil, organic resin, and food waste from manufacturing; paper waste from manufacturing; empty containers, printed circuit boards, ink and sludge.
MIXED MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE: Garbage, refuse and other solid waste from residential, commercial, industrial and community activities that the generator of the waste aggregates for collection, but does not include auto hulks, street sweeping, ash, construction debris, mining waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes, tires, lead acid batteries, used oil, and other materials collected, processed and disposed of as separate waste streams.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: Material that can be readily separated from mixed municipal solid waste for the purpose of recycling, including, but not limited to, paper, glass, plastics, metals, automobile oil and batteries. Recyclable materials that have been separated from the waste stream, processed, and sold or given away for reuse are no longer considered waste.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL CONTAINER: A curbside recycling container owned by the city or a licensed waste hauler and provided to the resident for the purpose of collection and disposal of recyclable material.
REFUSE: Solid wastes such as nonrecyclable glass, crockery, cans, paper, boxes, and rags, but excluding ashes, sand, earth, brick, stone, concrete, trees, tree branches and wood.
RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITY: Structures, machinery, or devices which, singly or in combination, are designed, constructed, and operated so as to separate, process, connect, treat, or prepare collected solid waste in such a manner that component materials, substances, or recoverable resources may be used as a raw material or for other productive purposes.
SPECIAL PICK UP: Any collection of materials other than mixed municipal solid waste, recyclable material or yard waste including white goods, furniture, oversized materials, construction debris, and other materials collected, processed, and disposed of as separate waste streams.
TARGETED RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: Metal beverage containers, tin cans, glass, newsprint, plastic containers with a neck, and corrugated cardboard, magazines, or other materials that may be designated by resolution of the city council.
YARD WASTE: Organic materials consisting of grass clippings, leaves and other forms of organic garden waste, prunings, tree waste, and fresh cut Christmas trees and boughs, but excluding garden vegetables and materials that are not readily compostible within a calendar year. (Ord. 12, 10-11-2007, eff. 1-1-2008)