BUILDING: Any structure designed, built, or occupied as a shelter or roofed enclosure for persons, animals or property.
COMPOSTING: The biological process by which microorganisms decompose the organic faction of waste, producing a humus like material.
COUNTY: Both incorporated and unincorporated areas of Grundy County, Illinois.
CURBSIDE COLLECTION: The pick up of garbage, general household waste and recyclables placed at the curb or roadside adjacent to or at the end of a private driveway leading to a residence or business.
DWELLING: A building, exclusive of recreational vehicles, hotels or motels, containing as its principal use one or more dwelling units.
DWELLING UNIT: A residential accommodation, including complete kitchen facilities permanently installed, which is arranged, designed, used or intended for use exclusively as living quarters for one family and not more than an aggregate of two (2) roomers or boarders.
EFFECTIVE DATE: The date this chapter is approved and passed by the Grundy County board.
GARBAGE: Any refuse products or materials including, but not limited to, the following: putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, sale or consumption of food; animal excretion; glass or metal containers; products or objects discarded as no longer usable; paper, wood, and cardboard waste; ashes and cinders; discarded furniture or clothing; dead animals; and any materials excluded from landfills or other final disposal facilities by state statute. The term "garbage" does not include human excretion in the form of body waste, except for soiled disposable diapers.
HAULERS: Any person who engages in the business of collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste, recyclables, landscape waste, brush or other refuse on a continuous and regular basis, and makes scheduled collections per month within the county.
LANDSCAPE WASTE: All accumulations of grass or shrubbery trimmings, leaves, tree limbs, and other materials accumulated as the result of the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines and trees.
MIXED WASTE COLLECTION: The collection of waste and recyclables in the same container with no source separation of recyclables.
MULTI-FAMILY DWELLING: A building containing three (3) or more dwelling units used for residential occupancy, including apartment houses, fraternities, sororities, dormitories and similar housing types, but not including hotels, motels, hospitals, foster family homes, long term care facilities or semi-independent group residents.
MUNICIPAL WASTE: Garbage, domiciliary or general household, institutional and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom and office waste, landscape waste, and construction and demolition debris.
OCCUPANT: A person or persons residing in dwellings of one or more units which have either curbside, alley or centrally located waste collection service.
OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: The Grundy County office of solid waste management.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, state agency, or any other legal entity or its legal representative, agency, or assigns.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS: Materials that are separated from garbage, municipal waste or refuse for the purpose of recycling including, but not limited to, newspaper, aluminum cans, bimetal cans, tin plated steel food cans, food or beverage glass bottles and jars, (#2) HDPE bottles, and (#1) PETE soda bottles.
RECYCLING PLAN: The plan submitted by solid waste haulers specifying the recycling and/or means to be provided to residential customers per subsection 3-3-6L of this chapter.
RECYCLING, RECLAMATION OR REUSE: A method, technique or process designed to remove any contaminant from waste so as to render the waste reusable, or any process by which materials that would otherwise be disposed of or discarded are collected, separated or processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products.
REFUSE: Waste.
RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER: A person who is an occupant of a residential dwelling unit but does not include commercial customers.
RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNIT: Single-, two- and multi-family dwellings.
SCAVENGING: The unauthorized collection of municipal waste and recyclable materials that have been set out by residents of the county specifically for an authorized collection.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING: A dwelling which is a detached building containing only one dwelling unit.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN: The officially adopted county plan pursuant to the Illinois solid waste planning and recycling act 1 for the management of municipal waste generated within its boundaries.
SOURCE SEPARATION: The separation of recyclable materials from waste at the point of generation.
TWO-FAMILY DWELLING: A dwelling containing two (2) dwelling units, each with completely separate entrances.
WASTE: Any garbage, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution facility or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the federal water pollution control act as now or hereinafter amended, or source, special nuclear, or byproduct materials as defined by the atomic energy act of 1954, as amended, or any solid or dissolved material from any facility subject to the federal surface mining control and reclamation act of 1977 or the rules and regulations thereunder, or any law or rule or regulation adopted by the state of Illinois pursuant thereto. (Ord. 05-009, 5-10-2005)
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| 1 | 1. 415 ILCS 15/1 et seq. |