LITTER. Any discarded, used, or unconsumed substance or waste. LITTER may include, but is not limited to, any garbage, trash, refuse, cigarettes, debris, rubbish, grass clippings, or other lawn or garden waste; newspaper, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers, or other packaging construction material, abandoned vehicle, as defined in ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, §§ 1-100 et seq., motor vehicle parts, furniture, oil, carcass of a dead animal, any nauseous or offensive matter of any kind; any object likely to injure any person or create a traffic
hazard, potentially infectious medical waste as defined in ILCS Ch. 415, Act 5, § 3.360; or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature, which has been discarded, abandoned, or otherwise disposed of improperly.
(ILCS Ch. 415, Act 105, § 3(a))