For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASHES. Residue from fire such as but not limited to those used for cooking or heating buildings.
GARBAGE. Wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food, and wastes from handling, storage and sale of produce.
RECYCLABLE. All items of refuse to be part of a recycling program, and which are intended for transportation, processing, and remanufacturing.
REFUSE. Combustible trash, including but not limited to paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches, yard trimmings, wood furniture, bedding, noncombustible trash, including but not limited to metals, tin cans, metal furniture, dirt, small quantities of rock and pieces of concrete, glass, crockery, or other mineral waste; street rubbish, including but not limited to street sweepings, dirt, leaves, catch basin dirt, or content of litter receptacles; provided, refuse shall not include solid wastes resulting from industrial processes and manufacturing operations such as food processing wastes, boilerhouse cinders, lumber, scraps and shavings.
SOLID WASTE. All putrescible and nonputres-cible solid and/or semisolid waste, except human excreta, but including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, offal and solid commercial, industrial, and institutional waste.
SOLID WASTE AND/OR RECYCLING COLLECTION COMPANY. Any person engaging in the work or business, whether regularly, intermittently or occasionally, of cleaning or removing garbage, waste, refuse, debris, recyclables, junk or abandoned or discarded substances or materials from the streets and alleys. The term shall not include a person regularly engaged in the collection for resale of industrial scrap or salvageable materials.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY. A sanitary landfill, an incinerator, a composting facility, a garbage grinding facility or any other facility that is suitable for solid waste disposal and is constructed and approved in accordance with all applicable state and local statutes or ordinances.
(IC 36-9-30-2) ('80 Code, § 8.08.010) (Ord. 40-1977, passed - -77; Am. Ord. 1982-28, passed 12-28-82; Am. Ord. 1992-12, passed - -92; Am. Ord. 1996-5, passed 2-26-96)