For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CURBSIDE COLLECTION.
A mixed municipal solid waste or recyclable materials collection system whereby the waste generator sets out waste containers for collection. Such
COLLECTION
may include specially established collection programs, including, but not limited to, “back door” collection programs.
DWELLING.
A building, exclusive of recreational vehicles, hotels or motels containing as its principle use one or more dwelling units.
FAMILY DWELLING.
A dwelling containing two dwelling units each with completely separate entrances.
GARBAGE.
Any refuse products or materials including, but not limited to, the following: putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, sale or consumption of food; animal excretion; glass or metal containers, products or objects discarded as no longer usable; paper, wood and cardboard waste; uprooted weeds, grass clippings, leaves and the like; ashes and cinders; discarded furniture or clothing; and dead animals. The term
GARBAGE
does not include human excretion in the form of body waste.
HAULER.
Any person, who engages in the business of collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste, recyclables, landscape waste, brush or other refuse on a continuous and regular basis, and makes multiple scheduled collections per month within the county.
MUNICIPALITY.
All incorporated places including a village or a city.
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE.
Any garbage, general household, institutional and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or office waste, landscape waste, and construction and demolition debris.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS.
Materials that are separated from garbage, municipal waste or refuse for the purpose of recycling, including, but not limited to, aluminum and tin cans, newspapers, corrugated cardboard, high grade printing and writing papers, magazines, landscape waste, plastic and glass containers, motor oil and vehicle fluids.
RECYCLING, RECLAMATION
or
REUSE.
A method, technique or process designed to remove any contaminant from waste so as to render the waste reusable, or any process by which materials that would otherwise be disposed of or discarded are collected, separated or processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products, but does not include the combustion of waste for energy recovery or volume reduction.
RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNIT.
Single- and two-family dwellings.
RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE STREAM.
Garbage, refuse or waste generated by a residential dwelling unit.
REFUSE.
All discarded and unwanted putrescible and non-putrescible household and kitchen wastes, including, but not limited to, food, food residues, and materials necessarily used for packaging, storing, preparing and consuming same, usually defined as
GARBAGE
; and all combustible and non-combustible waste materials resulting from the usual routine of domestic housekeeping, including, but not limited to, aluminum and steel cans; glass containers; plastic containers; crockery and other containers; metal; paper of all trees, including newspapers, books, magazines and catalogs; boxes and cartons; cold ashes; furniture, furnishings and fixtures; household appliances of all kinds; textiles and leather; dead animals and animal waste; toys and recreational equipment; and similar items. For the purposes of this chapter, the terms
GARBAGE, REFUSE, RUBBISH, SOLID WASTE, TRASH,
and
WASTE
shall be synonymous unless otherwise more specifically defined.
SCAVENGING.
The unauthorized collection or removal of materials, municipal waste and recyclable materials from a solid waste management facility, or that has been set out by residents of the county specifically for an authorized collection, in a manner not in conformity with the regulations governing salvaging.
VOLUME BASED USER FEE.
Refuse collection fees established on a volume or weight basis, or base rate volume structure.
(1993 Code, § 112.03) (Ord. 94-09, passed 7-20-1994)