ASH: Waste material produced from an incineration process or any combustion. Ash types include: fly ash, bottom ash, and incinerator residue.
GARBAGE: Means and includes animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods. It is composed largely of organic matters and their natural moisture content. The term does not include within its meaning food processing wastes from canneries, slaughterhouses, packing plants or similar industries, or large quantities of condemned food products. Garbage originates primarily in kitchens, stores, markets, restaurants, hotels, and other places where food is stored, cooked or consumed.
INFLAMMABLE RUBBISH OR COMBUSTIBLE RUBBISH: Miscellaneous flammable materials. Generally it is the organic component of rubbish, such as paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, furniture, bedding, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings and similar material.
NONCOMBUSTIBLE RUBBISH: Miscellaneous refuse materials that are nonflammable at ordinary temperatures. For the most part, it is the inorganic component of rubbish, such as tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery, dust, metal furniture, etc.
RUBBISH: All refuse not included in garbage and ashes. It consists of a great variety of combustible and noncombustible waste materials from households, stores and institutions. This waste is defined more specifically as "combustible rubbish" and "noncombustible rubbish", but whenever the word "rubbish" is used alone, it means a mixture of both. "Trash" is synonymous with rubbish. (Ord. 97-2, 7-15-1997; amd. Ord. 2009-01, 6-16-2009)