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, sign and other structure, 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.
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 their handling by normal solid waste collection, processing or disposal methods.
COLLECTION. The act of removing solid waste to a transfer station, processing facility or disposal facility.
COMMERCIAL CUT. Any person other than the property owner who cuts and maintains trees and limbs.
(Ord. O-99-5, passed 7-12-1999)
GARBAGE. Animal and vegetable matter resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food, tin cans, glassware or other containers, rags, waste paper, including all putrescible wastes, but excluding sewage and human wastes.
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;
(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.
(Ord. O-05-5, passed 7-11-2005)
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.
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.
REFUSE. Solid wastes that are nonputrescible wastes collected from residences.
SHARPS. Needles, syringes and scalpel blade.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage and 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.
(Ord. O-97-9, passed 9-8-1997; Am. Ord. O-17-04, passed 2-13-2017)