For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
A. "Approved" means acceptable to the department.
B. "Ashes" means residue from the burning of any combustible material.
C. "Garbage" means all animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the processing, handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food or food materials.
D. "Manure" means animal excreta, including cleanings from barns, stables, corrals, pens or conveyances used for stabling, transporting or penning of animals or fowls.
E. "Public facility" means any site owned and operated or utilized by any person for resource conservation or recovery or for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment or disposal of solid waste that is not generated on-site. "Public facility" includes a public solid waste landfill.
F. "Recyclable material" means:
1. Aluminum and metal cans, newspapers, glass bottles or jars, plastic beverage containers, all nonsoiled paper, and corrugated cardboard; and
2. Any other potentially recyclable material which a licensed waste collector elects to collect.
G. "Recycling facility" means a public facility which receives, stores, converts, separates or transfers recyclable materials for processing.
H. "Refuse" means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes, except human excreta, but including garbage, rubbish, ashes, manure, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and industrial wastes.
I. "Resource recovery" means the recovery of energy or materials from solid waste.
J. "Rubbish" means nonputrescible solid wastes, excluding ashes, consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, waste metal, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
K. "Solid waste" for the purposes of this chapter shall have the same meaning as defined in A.R.S. Section 49-701.01.
L. "Waste collector" means any private person operating within the unincorporated area of Pima County one or more collection vehicles in the business of collecting solid waste from the property where the materials originate to another location for transfer, salvage, resource recovery or disposal. "Waste collector" does not include those persons whose operations occur solely "on-site" according to A.R.S. Section 49-701 or whose operations are exempt according to A.R.S. Section 49-762(H).
(Ord. 1996-49 § 34, 1996: Ord. 1992-127 § 1 (part), 1992: Ord. 1990-115 § 1 (part), 1990)