For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
GARBAGE. Ejected food wastes, and shall include every waste or accumulation of animal, fruit and vegetable matter used or intended for food, or that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in
or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruits or vegetables, and all other putrescible wastes, except sewage and body wastes.
REFUSE. All putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes, except human excreta, but including garbage, rubbish, ashes, abandoned automobiles, street cleanings, dead animals, offal and solid commercial, industrial and institutional wastes.
RUBBISH. Such matter as ashes, cans, metal wastes, broken glass, crockery, dirt, sweepings, boxes, lumber, wood, leaves, grass, weeds, paper or litter of any kind, except trees, large limbs or debris from the demolition or construction of buildings.
(`94 Code, § 51.01)