953.02 DEFINITIONS.

   As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:

(a)   "Recyclable" or "recyclable material" means any item of solid waste which may be reclaimed and which is considered saleable pursuant to written determination by the City Manager.

(b)   "Solid waste" means such unwanted residual solid or semi-solid materials as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining or demolition operations, or other waste materials of the type that would normally be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash, spent nontoxic foundry sand, and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes, but is not limited to, garbage, tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt and debris. Solid waste does not include any material that is an infectious waste, a hazardous waste, and asbestos waste or material defined in subsection (f) hereof.

For the purpose of this definition, "demolition debris" or "materials from construction operations or demolition operations" are those items which would normally be affixed to the structure being constructed or demolished, such as brick, concrete, stone, glass, wallboard, framing and finishing lumber, roofing materials, plumbing, plumbing fixtures, wiring and insulation but excludes materials whose removal has been required prior to demolition.

For the purpose of this definition, semisolid material does not contain liquids which can be readily released under normal climatic conditions as determined by Method 9095 (Paint Filter Liquids Test) in SW-846: "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical Methods".

(c)   "Solid waste contractor" means the contractor authorized by the City for the collection of solid waste, including recyclable material.

(d)   "Garbage" means all discarded putrescible materials including, but not limited to, animal, vegetable or fruit wastes resulting from the handling, storage, preparation or eating of food and handling and disposal of small dead animals.

(e)   "Hazardous waste" means those substances which, singularly or in combination, pose a significant present or potential threat or hazard to human health or to the environment, and which singularly or in combination, require special handling, processing or disposal because they are or may be flammable, explosive, reactive, corrosive, toxic, carcinogenic, bioconcentrative or persistent in nature, potentially lethal or an irritant or strong sensitizer.

(f)   "Asbestos" means asbestiform varieties of serpentinite (chrysotile), riebeckit (crodidolite), cummintonite-grunerite, anthophyllite and actinolitetremolite.

(g)   "Asbestos-containing waste materials" means those wastes identified in Ohio Administrative Code 3745-20-1(B)(4).

(h)   "Infectious waste" means those wastes identified in Ohio Administrative Code 3745-27-01(V).
(Ord. 145-92. Passed 11-23-92.)