For use in these chapters the following terms are defined:
1. “Collector” means any person authorized to gather solid waste and recyclable materials from public and private places.
2. “Discard” means to place, cause to be placed, throw, deposit or drop.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.361[1])
3. “Dwelling unit” means any room or group of rooms located within a structure and forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used, or are intended to be used, for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
4. “Garbage” means all solid and semisolid, putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, storing, serving and consuming of food or of material intended for use as food, and all offal, excluding useful industrial by-products, and includes all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
5. “Landscape waste” means any vegetable or plant waste except garbage. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery and yard trimmings, but does not include the fruit of the vine.
(IAC, 567-20.2[455B])
6. “Litter” means any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, waste materials, or debris not exceeding 10 pounds in weight or 15 cubic feet in volume. Litter includes but is not limited to empty beverage containers, cigarette butts, food waste packaging, other food or candy wrappers, handbills, empty cartons, or boxes.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.361[2])
7. “Multifamily dwelling” means a structure containing more than one dwelling unit.
8. “Newspapers” means printed matter on newsprint (including all inserts), phone books, magazines, catalogs, office paper (white and pastel bond paper, all computer paper, copy machine paper, white and pastel envelopes, white and pastel forms, yellow legal pad paper, adding machine papers, telephone message slips, letterhead paper, tablet and note pad paper, fax paper, newspapers, file folders), boxboard containers (cereal boxes, gift boxes, shoe boxes and envelope boxes), and junk mail (including window envelopes). If har covers are removed from books, the books may be recycled.
9. “Non-recyclable materials” means all material not having a present, economic, reusable value. Examples include but are not limited to:
A. Window glass, mirrors, drinking glass, pottery and ceramics;
B. Light bulbs;
C. Plastic food containers with numbers three to seven on bottom, plastic bags, Styrofoam products;
D. Toys, flower pots, waste baskets, laundry baskets or Tupperware type products;
E. Metal pots and pans, small appliances, furniture, furnace filters and aluminum siding;
F. Waxed paper and waxed cardboard;
G. Hard covers of books, carbon paper, food wrappers and containers, foil, plastic and all other non-paper items, thermal fax paper, wax paper, tissue paper and wood products;
H. Textiles and clothing, carpets, rugs, shoes and belts;
I. Garbage;
J. Rubbish; and
K. Tree limbs, stumps and brush placed in designated area at landfill.
10. “Operator” means the person or agency authorized to conduct disposal operations at a public sanitary disposal project or licensed private sanitary disposal project.
11. “Owner” means, in addition to the record titleholder, any person residing in, renting, leasing, occupying, operating or transacting business in any premises, and as between such parties the duties, responsibilities, liabilities and obligations hereinafter imposed shall be joint and several.
12. “Processing facility” means the site and equipment for the preliminary and incomplete disposal of solid waste, including (but not limited to) transfer, open burning, incomplete land disposal, incineration, composting, recycling, reduction, shredding and compression.
13. “Property served” means any property which is being used or occupied and is eligible to receive solid waste collection and disposal service as provided herein.
14. “Recyclable material” means:
A. Newspapers, office paper, magazines and catalogs, boxboard and junk mail;
B. Unwaxed, corrugated cardboard;
C. White goods which include stoves, refrigerators, washers and dryers, water heaters, air conditioners, dishwashers and freezers;
D. Glass jars and bottles;
E. Cans;
F. Plastic jugs; and
G. Lead acid batteries.
15. “Recycled materials” means any used material having an economic value in the secondary materials market and includes aluminum cans and articles, bimetal cans, glass containers, corrugated paper, computer printout paper, computer tab cards, office paper, steel cans, newspaper, paper products not chemically coated, plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, plastic high density polyethylene (HDPE) containers and other materials designated by resolution or ordinance of the Council as having value.
16. “Recycling program” means a program to dispose of recycled materials as established by resolution of the Council.
17. “Refuse” means putrescible and non-putrescible waste, including (but not limited to) garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residues, street cleanings, market and industrial solid waste and sewage treatment waste in dry or semisolid form.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
18. “Resident” means, in addition to any person residing in the City, any person occupying or using any commercial, industrial or institutional premises within the City.
19. “Residential premises” means a single-family dwelling and any multiple-family dwelling up to and including four separate dwelling units. Garden type apartments and row type housing units shall be considered residential premises regardless of the total number of such apartments or units which may be included in a given housing development.
20. “Residential waste” means any refuse generated on the premises as a result of residential activities. The term includes landscape waste grown on the premises or deposited thereon by the elements but excludes garbage, tires, trade wastes and any locally recyclable goods or plastics.
(IAC, 567-20.2[455B])
21. “Rubbish” means non-putrescible solid waste consisting of combustible and non-combustible waste, such as ashes, paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery or litter of any kind.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
22. “Sanitary disposal” means a method of treating solid waste so that it does not produce a hazard to the public health or safety or create a nuisance.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
23. “Sanitary disposal project” means all facilities and appurtenances including all real and personal property connected with such facilities, which are acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, equipped, improved, extended, maintained, or operated to facilitate the final disposition of solid waste without creating a significant hazard to the public health or safety, and which are approved by the Director of the State Department of Natural Resources.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.301)
24. “Scavenging” means the uncontrolled removal of materials from the unloading or working area of a sanitary disposal project.
25. “Single-family dwelling” means a structure containing one dwelling unit only.
26. “Site” means any location, place or tract of land used for collection, storage, conversion, utilization, incineration or burial of solid waste.
27. “Solid waste” means garbage, refuse, rubbish, and other similar discarded solid or semisolid materials, including (but not limited to) such materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and domestic activities. Solid waste may include vehicles, as defined by Section 321.1 of the Code of Iowa. Solid waste does not include any of the following:
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.301)
A. Hazardous waste regulated under the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6921-6934.
B. Hazardous waste as defined in Section 455B.411 of the Code of Iowa, except to the extent that rules allowing for the disposal of specific wastes have been adopted by the State Environmental Protection Commission.
C. Source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended to January 1, 1979.
D. Petroleum contaminated soil that has been remediated to acceptable State or federal standards.
E. Steel slag which is a product resulting from the steel manufacturing process and is managed as an item of value in a controlled manner and not as a discarded material.