For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
GARBAGE. Discarded material resulting from the handling, processing, storage, preparation, serving and consumption of food.
OPEN BURNING. Burning any matter whereby the resultant combustion products are emitted directly to the open atmosphere without passing through an adequate stack, duct or chimney.
PERSON. Any human being, any municipality or other governmental or political subdivision or other public agency, any public or private corporation, any partnership, firm, association or other organization; any receiver, trustee, assignee, agent or other legal representative of any of the foregoing, or any other legal entity, but does not include the Pollution Control Agency.
REFUSE. Putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residue; street cleanings and market and industrial solid wastes, and including sewage treatment wastes, which are in dry form.
RUBBISH. Nonputrescible solid wastes, including ashes, consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery or litter of any kind.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage, refuse and other discarded solid materials, except animal waste used as fertilizer, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and from community activities. SOLID WASTE does not include earthen fill, boulders, rock and other materials normally handled in construction operations, solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or other common water pollutants.
TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS WASTES. Waste materials, including but not limited to, poisons, pesticides, herbicides, acids, caustics, pathological wastes, radioactive materials, flammable or explosive materials and similar harmful chemicals and wastes which require special handling and must be disposed of in a manner to conserve the environment and protect the public health and safety.
(Ord. 55, passed 3-9-1971)