(a) Except as directed by the director or the director’s authorized representative and as provided otherwise under the mandatory recycling program for city government established under § 42-1.11, the division shall accept or cause to be accepted the following solid waste within the disposal system: paper, cardboard, yard trimmings, bottles, cans, plastic, garbage, lumber, and tree branches less than 5 feet long and less than 9 inches in diameter.
Except during a suspension by the director of the requirements of § 43-5A.2(a) or (b), or both, and as authorized by the director during the suspension, the division shall not accept into the disposal system any commercial cooking oil waste or commercial FOG waste.
(b) The division may conduct an examination of any truckload of refuse or other solid waste delivered or transported to a disposal facility:
(1) At any time that the division has cause to believe that the truckload contains:
(A) Twenty-five percent or more of those recyclable materials designated by the director; or
(B) Any commercial cooking oil waste or commercial FOG waste; or
(2) Periodically and on a random basis to determine compliance with the prohibition of subsection (a).
(c) The division shall accept the following types of solid waste only at specific disposal sites designated by the chief: large household appliances, tree trunks, dirt, rock, concrete, reinforcing steel, metal pipe, metal roofing, automobile parts, and bed springs.
(d) The division shall not accept deliveries of any refuse or recyclable materials that are not made during hours of operation as posted at each facility.
(e) The chief may divert all or part of the incoming refuse away from a disposal facility, or limit the area to be served by a disposal facility when, in the chief’s judgment, such action is necessary to undertake repairs or to maintain the facility, or where the facility lacks the continued capacity to handle the incoming refuse, or so as to prolong the life of the facility.
(f) The director, or the director’s authorized representative, may designate from time to time, those disposal facilities or private disposal facilities, or a combination thereof, and the methods for the processing and disposal of solid waste generated in the city constituting a part of the disposal system created by this chapter. The director or the director’s authorized representative may require that all solid waste, whether transported by the division, licensed collectors, businesses, or individuals, be disposed of at specific disposal facilities or private disposal facilities within the disposal system as designated by such person if it is found to be in the best public interest; provided that agricultural solid waste and source separated waste transported for recycling purposes shall not be subject to this section; and provided further, that if regional transfer stations are designated, transportation to the stations shall be considered so as to minimize the operating costs of the collector. The best public interest shall be found if disposal at the designated disposal facility or private disposal facility within the disposal system shall:
(1) Result in reusable materials being recovered from solid waste;
(2) Achieve the solid waste volumes necessary to meet a resource recovery facility’s minimum operating requirement;
(3) Lessen the demand for landfill sites; or
(4) Conserve natural resources.
(Sec. 9-1.6, R.O. 1978 (1987 Supp. to 1983 Ed.) (1990 Code, Ch. 9, Art. 1, § 9-1.7) (Am. Ords. 89-113, 89-117, 02-14, 04-10)