As used in this chapter:
(a) "Billing unit", with reference to the residential recycling program, means a place of abode for persons living separately or together as an independent family or household. "Billing unit", with reference to the commercial, industrial, governmental, institutional and multi-family recycling program, means premises within the City not otherwise defined as a "residential unit" as defined in the City's mandatory recycling ordinance.
(b) "Residential unit" includes a single family dwelling, duplex, triplex, or other building with one or more billing units grouped under a common roof and with direct access to a public street.
(c) "Multi-family residence" or "apartment" means the grouping together of four or more billing units under a common roof within a common interior hallway or foyer, not included in the Residential Collection Program.
(d) "Trailers" means those billing units as defined in the Planning and Zoning Code.
(e) "Solid waste" means such unwanted residual solid or semisolid materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining or demolition operations, or other waste materials of the type that would normally be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash, spent nontoxic foundry sand, and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes, but is not limited to, garbage, tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt and debris. Solid waste does not include any material that is an infectious waste, a hazardous waste, an asbestos waste or material defined under "recyclable material". For the purpose of this definition, "material from construction operations or demolition operations" are those items affixed to the structure being constructed or demolished, such as brick, concrete, stone, glass, wall board, framing and finishing lumber, roofing materials, plumbing, plumbing fixtures, wiring and insulation but excludes materials whose removal has been required prior to demolition. For the purpose of this definition, semisolid material does not contain liquids which can be readily released under normal climatic conditions as determined by Method 9095 [Paint Filter Liquids Test) in SW 846: "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical Methods".
(f) "Yard waste" means leaves, grass clippings, weeds, holiday trees, shrub trimmings, bushes, brush, branch clippings, and tree trimmings.
(g) "Director" means the Director of Public Service of the City.
(h) "Recyclable material" means this term shall refer to recyclable materials in the form of glass, aluminum and steel containers, magazines, phone books, junk mail, mixed paper, newspaper, #1 and #2 plastics, and cardboard designated for removal from a residential or apartment unit. This list may be reduced or additional materials may be designated by mutual agreement of the Recycling Contractor and the City.
(i) "Recycling container" means a storage unit provided by the City or its Recycling Contractor in which recyclable materials are to be place and commingled by the occupants of each billing unit, unless served by other storage units. Such containers shall meet the requirements of the Director and will be specified by the City. Only the City's Recycling Contractor shall be permitted to remove the contents of a recycling bin.
(j) "Recycling contractor" means the contractor authorized by the City for the collection of recyclable materials.
(k) "Garbage" means all discarded putrescible materials including, but not limited to, animal, vegetable or fruit wastes resulting from the handling, storage, preparation or eating of food and handling and disposal of small dead animals.
(l) "Hazardous waste" means those substances which, singularly or in combination, pose a significant present or potential threat or hazard to human health or to the environment, and which singularly or in combination, require special handling, processing or disposal because they are or may be flammable, explosive, reactive, corrosive, toxic, carcinogenic, bioconcentrative or persistent in nature, potentially lethal, or an irritant or strong sensitizer.
(m) "Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of serpentinite (chrysotile), riebeckite (crodidolite), cummintonite grunerite, anthophyllite and actinolitetremolite.
(n) "Asbestos containing waste materials" means those wastes identified in Chapter 3745 of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).
(o) "Infectious waste" means those wastes identified in Chapter 3745 of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).
(Ord. 2021-078. Passed 8-18-21.)