As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned to them:
(1) Administrative Approval shall mean any building, zoning, health and grading permit and any license from the City, and any permit, license or other administrative action from the Illinois Department of Environmental Protection or other agency of the State of Illinois or the United States of America that is required prior to any person or bodies politic or corporate, dumping or placing refuse on private or public property within the City.
(2) Appliance
shall mean any household or office mechanical device or apparatus, or instrument normally used in residential dwellings, that utilizes a power supply, whether electrical or otherwise and which exceeds fifty (50) pounds net weight. Examples of an appliance are, but not limited to: refrigerator, freezer, range, stove, washer, dryer, hot water heater, air conditioner, humidifier, dehumidifier, dishwasher, water cooler, and microwave oven. Altering, disassembling, or modifying appliances to reduce their weight below fifty (50) pounds total assembled weight is strictly prohibited.
(3) Ashes
shall mean and include the ashes of wood, paper, coal, coke or charcoal and the residue resulting from the combustion of any material or substance.
(4) Automated Tipper Cart shall mean a specialized container, either ninety-six (96) gallons or forty-eight (48) gallons in size, owned by the City and provided to the City’s residential customers for use in storing and transporting household garbage for weekly collection.
(5) Biomedical Waste
shall mean any waste material which was used in the treatment of humans or animals.
(6) Brush
shall mean trimmings from trees, shrubs, bushes or other woody plants.
(7) Bulky Item
shall mean an item or collection of items that does not fit in a City-provided automated tipper cart, is not a tire or an appliance as defined in this chapter, does not exceed two and a half (2.5) cubic yards in volume or 100 pounds, and does not meet the definition of a paid brush collection, yard waste, commercial waste, or hazardous waste. Each additional two and a half (2.5) cubic yards/100 pounds will be charged $40.
(8) Commercial Waste shall mean trade wastes such as packing paper, cardboard, excelsior, straw, crates, boxes, acids, oils, grease, chemicals, tires, vehicle and aircraft parts, discarded merchandise, glass, metals, wire, crockery, ashes, cinders, garbage, food and other waste materials, including construction waste, such as earth, metals used in plating, wood, plastics, tile, brick, concrete, terra cotta, slate, marble, and minerals; and waste produced from a residential or commercial property of more than five (5) units; but shall not include any hazardous waste as defined in this chapter, federal or state law or regulation.
(9) Complex
shall mean a group of two (2) or more buildings, developed as an integrated unit and under single management or control.
(10) Construction Waste shall mean excess or discarded construction materials associated with a construction project or home repair.
(11) Curbside shall mean within five (5) feet of the lot line when such a lot line abuts a public alley (if the property is served by such an alley) and shall mean within three (3) feet of the edge of the paved portion of public street, or at the location designated by the director of public works or his designee to be the most suitable for collection and that best facilitates the City’s automated collection equipment.
(12) Curbside Bulky Recyclable Materials
shall mean any and all materials authorized for curbside placement and special collection by an authorized vendor or agent (“vendor”) of the Rock Island County Waste Management Agency pursuant to the Rock Island County Waste Management Agency’s white goods and used tire program. Said materials shall include appliances and tires as defined in this chapter. Materials prohibited from such collection shall include but not be limited to televisions, hand held appliances, VCRs, garbage disposals, business equipment and computers.
(13) Curbside Bulky Recycling
shall mean any and all recyclable bulky materials authorized for curbside placement and special collection by an authorized vendor of the Rock Island County Waste Management Agency pursuant to the Rock Island County Waste Management Agency’s white goods and used tire program. All materials to be collected under this definition shall be per Section 15-1100(12) above.
(14) Curbside Recyclable Materials
shall mean any and all materials authorized for placement in designated curbside recycling carts as provided by any outside vendor or agent (“vendor”) authorized by action of the City Council to collect curbside recyclable materials for the City; said materials shall include newspaper, newspaper inserts, magazines, paper bags, telephone books, catalogs, office paper, junk mail, envelopes of any type, corrugated cardboard, chipboard, wet strength carrier stock (chip board), frozen food paper packages, juice boxes, bulky cardboard, all #1 PET plastic containers, all #2 HDPE plastic containers, all #3 (V-vinyl/polyvinyl Chloride-PVC) plastic containers, all #4 LDPE plastic containers, all #5 (PP-polypropylene) plastic containers, all #6 (PS-polystyrene) plastic containers, all #7 – other plastic, formed steel containers, aluminum cans, tin/steel/bi-metal cans, glass, aseptic packaging, or any other item characterized as a recyclable commodity.
(15) Curbside Recycling
shall mean a single stream method of collection of residentially generated recyclable materials by which the owner(s) or occupant(s) of certain residential properties (single-family residences and residential buildings of five (5) dwelling units or less) may dispose of curbside recyclable materials by placing same in a City vendor designated curbside recycling cart for bi-weekly collection, removal and transport to a recycling process center by the City’s vendor All materials to be collected under this definition shall be per Section 15-1100(14) above.
(16) Curbside Recycling Cart
shall mean a cart designated and provided for the collection of curbside recyclable materials.
(17) Drop-off Recycling Bin
shall mean any bin designated and provided by the City for the collection of recyclable materials pursuant to the Rock Island County Waste Management Agency recycling drop-off collection system.
(18) Drop-off Recyclable Materials
shall mean any and all materials authorized for placement in the City’s drop-off recycling bins pursuant to the Rock Island County Waste Management Agency recycling drop-off collection system; said materials include without limitation co-mingled rigid containers (plastics #1-7 including without limitation milk jugs, food containers, detergent, shampoo and liter bottles, yogurt cups; metals of tin and aluminum; glass of green, brown and clear colors) and co-mingled fiber (corrugated cardboard, chipboard, newspapers, magazines, mixed office paper, phonebooks and brown paper bags).
(19) Dumpster shall mean any commercial refuse container with a capacity of at least a one (1) yard capacity and a maximum of six (6) yards capacity and shall be equipped with a hinged lid, wheels and such other equipment as needed for sanitary mechanical dumping.
(20) Garbage or Household Garbage shall mean solid waste normally associated with the operation of a household, including food waste, paper goods, and other disposables not associated with recyclable materials, yard maintenance, yard waste or hazardous waste.
(21) Hazardous Waste shall mean a waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed, and which has been identified, by characteristics or listing, as hazardous under Section 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, P.L. 94-580 or under regulations of the Pollution Control Board. (420 ILCS 20/3). Examples of such waste or materials shall include but not be limited to batteries, motor oil, oil base paint, insecticides, herbicides, tires, roofing materials, acids, caustics, solvents, and other similar materials. Hazardous waste shall also include but not be limited to materials that are hazardous by reason of their pathological, explosive, radiological, or toxic characteristics.
(22) Lifter Device
shall mean a device attached to a City sanitation truck for the purpose of lifting and dumping automated tipper carts.
(23) Miscellaneous Rubbish
shall mean household items or substances discarded during a scheduled bulky item collection and shall include but not be limited to paper, rags, cardboard, clothing, bottles, crockery, metals, plastics, tin items, and other household items, but does not include appliances, tires, yard waste or hazardous waste.
(24) Paid Brush Collection shall mean the prepaid collection of brush that is larger than four (4) feet in length and four (4) inches in diameter.
(25) Private Scavenger shall mean any person engaged in the collection, removal, transportation or disposal of residential refuse and/or commercial waste.
(26) Refuse shall be the generic term and shall include within its meaning garbage or household garbage, recyclable materials, yard waste, ashes, miscellaneous rubbish, commercial waste, and construction waste.
(27) Residential Refuse shall mean garbage or household garbage, recyclable materials, yard waste, ashes and/or miscellaneous rubbish originating from a single-family residence or a residential building of five (5) dwelling units or less, and construction waste when said construction waste is the result of construction work done by the owner or the occupant of the residential premises.
(28) Tire
shall mean a residentially generated vehicle passenger tire with the rim removed.