For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASHES. Include the solid residue from outdoor cooking, recreational fires, and authorized burning of landscape waste.
BULKY WASTE. Furniture, box springs, mattresses, and other discarded household items with weights or volumes greater than those allowed for containers. It also shall mean television sets, kitchen stoves, clothes dryers, clothes washers, furnaces, humidifiers, hot water heaters, trash compactors, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers, central air conditioners, window air conditioners, dehumidifiers, and other appliances, metal sinks, metal counter tops, and bathroom fixtures such as porcelain toilets, vanity sinks, bathtubs, and all other related items.
COLLECTION PLACE. The location where garbage, rubbish, and recyclables are placed prior to scheduled collection. It shall be outside each residence or dwelling at the street edge, curb, gutter or rear edge of the sidewalk or at a properly constructed storage area acceptable to the waste disposal service and is readily accessible the waste disposal service’s personnel; service for the infirmed or disabled will be at the convenience of the resident and treated as an exception.
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS. Building materials resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition operations; except that occasional residential construction debris placed in a container for collection shall be treated as rubbish.
CONTAINER. A receptacle with a capacity of greater than 20 gallons constructed of plastic, metal, or fiberglass having handles of adequate strength for lifting and having a tight-fitting lid capable of preventing entrance into the container by animals, and it shall also mean plastic bags, which when full shall not exceed 40 pounds gross weight, which shall have sufficient wall strength to maintain physical integrity when lifted by the top, and which shall be securely tied at the top and kept in a secure place away from animals prior to scheduled collection by a waste disposal service. CONTAINER shall also mean a recycling collection bins selected and furnished by the waste disposal service, or other suitable receptacles agreeable to that purpose.
GARBAGE. Include all putrescible (or easily decomposable) wastes, including vegetable and animal matter produced or resulting from the use and storage of food for human consumption.
HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH. Tin cans, metal utensils, bottles, glass, crockery, paper, boxes, rags, discarded clothing or footwear, and all domestic wastes and similar refuse resulting from the regular operations of a household not classed as garbage, ashes, bulky waste, or construction debris.
LEAF BAGS. Heavy paper, closed biodegradable bags containing leaves, grass, and appropriate-size garden and yard waste.
RECYCLABLES. Materials that would otherwise become municipal waste, including without limitation newspapers, glass, metal cans, aluminum cans, and plastic items that are placed by a resident in a recycling container at curbside and collected by the waste disposal service’s curbside recycling program in order to eventually be separated or processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials for new, reused, or reconstituted products.
REFUSE. Garbage, ashes, and household rubbish.
WASTE DISPOSAL SERVICE. The person or entity authorized by owner, tenant, or lessee of any private premises, or duly authorized under common law or by the Village Board, to collect and remove garbage, rubbish, ashes, bulky waste, and construction debris.
(Ord. 11-10, passed 8-2-2011)