For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING MATERIALS - TYPE III. Includes, but is not limited to: inert waste such as broken concrete, brick, masonry, pavement, uncontaminated soil, trees, stumps, rock and other waste identified by statute, rule, or this subchapter and disposal of which is allowed in a Type III landfill.
GARBAGE. Includes, but is not limited to: rejected food waste, accumulation of animal, fruit, or vegetable matter used, or intended for food or that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in, or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetable and any other waste identified by statute, rule or this subchapter and disposal of which is allowed in a Type II landfill.
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE. Includes, but is not limited to: waste managed under Act 64, used motor oil, solvents, paint and paint strippers, gasoline, oven cleaners, drain openers, pesticides, thinners and any other household hazardous waste identified by statute, rule or this subchapter or is prohibited from disposal in a Type II or III landfill.
INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE. Includes, but is not limited to: buffing dust, wastewater, wastewater sludge, sludge, commercial chemical products and intermediates, leachate, sill residue, acids and other corrosives, and any other hazardous industrial waste identified by statute, rule or this subchapter or is prohibited from disposal in a Type II or III landfill.
MEDICAL WASTE. Hospital or medically related, which includes but is not limited to: cultures and stocks of infectious agents, including laboratory waste, biological production waste, discarded live attenuated vaccines, culture dishes, liquid human and animal waste, including stool and blood products and body fluids, but not including urine or materials stained with blood or body fluids, pathological waste, needles, syringes, scapels and intravenous tubing with needles attached, contaminated waste from animals exposed to agents infectious to humans and any other medical waste identified by statute, rule or this subchapter or is not permitted to be disposed of in a Type II or III landfill.
MUNICIPAL HOUSEHOLD WASTE. TYPE II, including but not limited to: garbage and rubbish, excluding yard clippings and leaves, white goods, demolished building materials, vehicle parts, tires and any other waste identified by statute, rule, or this subchapter or is prohibited from disposal in a Type II landfill, also excluding any "special waste" identified by this subchapter.
RUBBISH. Non-decomposing waste, excluding ashes, consisting of both combustible and non- combustible waste, including paper, cardboard, metal containers, yard clippings, wood, glass, beddings, crockery and any other waste identified by statute, rule or this subchapter and disposal of which is allowed in a Type II landfill.
SPECIAL WASTE. Determined by the City Manager and Public Works Director, including but not limited to vehicle parts, white goods, vehicle batteries, tires, paint and liquid petroleum products.
WASTE. Any discarded materials that is not excluded by statute, rule, or this subchapter that is normally abandoned, disposed, burned or incinerated.
(Ord. 194, passed 5-1-91)