As used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases have the following meanings:
COLLECTION: The aggregation of mixed municipal solid waste from the place at which it is generated and includes all activities up to the time the waste is delivered to a waste facility.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT: Any premises where a commercial enterprise of any kind is carried on and shall include restaurants, clubs, churches, and schools.
COMMERCIAL/MULTIPLE-FAMILY (APARTMENT) DWELLING COLLECTION: Mixed municipal solid waste and/or recyclable material collection provided to any commercial establishment or any multiple-family (apartment) dwelling units of which all residents commingle their mixed municipal solid waste in a dumpster or other similar container for shared collection service by the collector or commingle their recyclable material in a dumpster or other similar container for shared pickup service by the collector.
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS: Waste building materials, packaging, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of buildings and roads.
DAY SPECIFIC HAULING MAP: A map that divides the City into districts for individual residential collection based on the day of the week in which garbage, refuse, recyclables, and yard waste are collected by a licensed collector.
GARBAGE: Animal, vegetable, or other putrescible wastes, but excluding human excreta, sewage, or other forms of water- carried wastes.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: The following waste from an industrial or manufacturing business that is managed as a separate waste stream: ash, sand, wood waste, contaminated soil, organic resin, and food waste from manufacturing; paper waste from manufacturing; empty containers, printed circuit boards, ink and sludge.
MIXED MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE: Garbage, refuse and other solid waste from residential, commercial, industrial, and community activities that the generator of the waste aggregates for collection, but does not include auto hulks, street sweepings, ash, construction debris, mining waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes, tires, lead acid batteries, used oil, and other materials collected, processed, and disposed of as separate waste streams.
MULTIPLE-FAMILY (APARTMENT) DWELLING: A building designed with three (3) or more dwelling units exclusively for occupancy by three (3) or more families living independently of each other, but sharing hallways and main entrances and exits.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: Materials that can be readily separated from mixed municipal solid waste for the purpose of recycling, including, but not limited to, paper, glass, plastics, metals, automobile oil and batteries. Recyclable materials that have been separated from the waste stream, processed, and sold or given away for reuse are no longer considered waste.
REFUSE: Solid wastes such as nonrecyclable glass, crockery, cans, paper boxes, rags and yard waste.
RESIDENTIAL DWELLING COLLECTION: Mixed Municipal solid waste and/or recyclable material collection services in which the collector specifically services an individual residential dwelling unit for the collection of mixed Municipal solid waste and/or recyclable material, regardless of whether it is a single-family dwelling or a dwelling unit within a multiple- family (apartment) dwelling unit structure.
SPECIAL PICKUP: Any collection of materials other than mixed Municipal solid waste, recyclable material or yard waste including white goods, furniture, oversized materials, construction debris, and other materials collected, processed, and disposed of as separate waste streams.
TARGETED RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: Aluminum and steel beverage containers, tin cans, glass, newsprint, plastic containers with a neck, corrugated cardboard, magazines, catalogs and mixed paper, or other materials that may be designated by resolution of the City Council.
YARD WASTE: Organic materials consisting of grass clippings, leaves, and other forms of organic garden waste, prunings, tree waste, and fresh-cut Christmas trees and boughs, but excluding garden vegetables and materials that are not readily compostible within the calendar year.
(Ord. 686, sec. 1, 6-18-2001; amd. Ord. 996, 5-7-2018; Ord. 1009, 3-18-2019)