As used in this chapter:
(a) “Garbage” means rejected food wastes and house offal, whether consisting of animal or vegetable substance, used or intended for food, or that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in and storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruits or vegetables.
(b) “Refuse” means any material, other than garbage, which has been rejected or thrown away as worthless or useless.
(c) “Solid waste” means solid or semi-sold material resulting from industrial, commercial, agriculture or community operations, including, but not limited to, garbage, tires, combustible and not combustible materials, brush, litter, street dirt and debris of any and all kinds and defined by Ohio law.
(d) “Disposal” means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, admitting or placing of any solid or semi-solid or hazardous waste into or onto any land or ground or surface water or into the air.
(e) “Hazardous waste” means any waste or combination of waste and solid, liquid or semi-solid or contained gaseous form that in the determination of the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America or the State of Ohio, because of its quantity, concentration, physical or chemical characteristics; (1) may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacity illness; or (2) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or safety or to the environment when improperly stored, treated, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed as infectious waste, but not limited to any delineated pursuant to Ohio R.C. 3734.01(R) including but not limited to all of those substances identified by regulation as “hazardous waste” pursuant to the “Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976", or to U.S.C. 6921, as amended.
(Ord. 19-02. Passed 5-9-02.)