For the purpose of this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them. Words not ascribed a meaning shall have the meaning ascribed by state law.
AUTOMATED COLLECTION: | The collection of solid waste or green waste, using a specially designed vehicle with mechanical apparatus which empties a container directly into a vehicle without requiring manual labor to empty the container. |
AUTOMATED COLLECTION CONTAINER: | A solid waste or green waste container specially designed for automated collection. |
BULKY WASTE: | Means and includes, but is not limited to, objects of furniture, household or industrial metallic discards, auto parts, construction and demolition materials, trees and/or tree trunks larger than six inches (6") in diameter, shipping crates, containers and other large, bulky or heavy objects which cannot be placed in a covered container and discarded by a customer. |
COLLECTOR: | An employee of the city or an independent contractor or franchisee of the city authorized to collect and transport solid waste, and/or green waste or recyclable materials. |
COMMERCIAL BIN: | A city approved bin, usually one (1) cubic yard to four (4) cubic yards' capacity, designed for the deposit of solid waste, including green waste and recyclable materials, which is charged at commercial rates. |
COMPOST: | The product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition of organic wastes. |
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE: | All nonhazardous waste material and rubble resulting from the construction, alteration, remodeling, repair, removal or demolition of housing, commercial buildings and other structures, including, but not limited to, inert wastes, lumber, brick, soil, concrete, and plaster, which is customarily handled and transported by means of a roll-off drop box. |
CONTAINER: | A city approved bin, can or receptacle used for collecting solid waste, including green waste and recyclable materials, whether owned by the city, collector, property owner or a tenant. |
CUSTOMER: | The owner and/or occupant of any property within the city that is required to participate in the city's solid waste, including green waste and recyclables, collection program. |
DIRECTOR: | The city's municipal utilities director or his or her designee. |
GREEN WASTE: | Tree and shrubbery trimmings, tree roots less than six inches (6") in diameter, vegetation matter resulting from land clearing, grass, weeds, straw, or leaves, wood chips, sawdust and other household garden organic materials which have been segregated from other solid waste materials for the purpose of deposit at a designated collection location, including curbside location, for collection and transportation to a compost facility. Green waste does not include palm fronds, cactus or tree limbs, roots or stumps larger than six inches (6") in diameter. |
HAZARDOUS WASTE: | Waste which, because of its quantity, concentration, physical, chemical or infectious characteristics causes any of the following: |
A. An increase in mortality or serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; | |
B. A substantial present or potential hazard to human health or environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed; | |
C. Damage to property and/or contaminate the water table by reason of being explosive, flammable, poisonous, corrosive, radioactive or otherwise harmful to the environment; | |
D. "Hazardous waste" means hazardous waste, extremely hazardous and acutely hazardous waste as these terms are defined by state law. | |
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE: | Any hazardous waste, including heavy metals, generated incidental to owning and/or maintaining a property, but does not include any waste generated in the course of operating a business at a residence. |
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: | Solid waste resulting from industrial processes and manufacturing operations, including, but not limited to, wholesale and volume food processing waste, boiler house cinders, lumber scraps and shavings, metal scraps and shavings and chemical wastes, or that originates from any organization, private or civic, or any number of persons or objects that manufactures, assembles, combines, converts, or refines any substance, liquid, element, material, or energy source of any type. |
MAY: | Permissive. |
MEDICAL WASTE: | Waste which meets both of the following requirements: |
A. Is composed of waste which is generated or produced as a result of any of the following: | |
1. Research, diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals; | |
2. The production or testing of biologicals. | |
B. The waste is any of the following: | |
1. Biohazardous waste as defined in California Health and Safety Code, division 20, chapter 6.1, article 2, section 25020.5; | |
2. Sharps waste, including, but not limited to, hypodermic needles, syringes, blades, tubing, acupuncture needles, root canal files, broken glass such as Pasteur pipettes and blood vials. | |
METALLIC DISCARD: | Any large metal article or product, or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, metal furniture, machinery, appliances, electronic products, vehicles and wood burning stoves. Metallic discards are banned by the state of California from all municipal sanitary landfills. |
MUNICIPAL SERVICES STATEMENT: | A billing invoice sent to a customer by the city for use of city provided utility services. |
ORGANIC WASTE: | Waste containing material originated from living organisms and their metabolic waste products including, but not limited to, food, green material, landscape and pruning waste, organic textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products, printing and writing paper, manure, biosolids, digestate, and sludges. |
PERSON: | Any person, firm, business, sole proprietorship, joint venture, trust, association or corporation whether for profit or nonprofit. |
PROPERTY: | Any lot, vacant or under construction, building, residence, single-family or multiple-family residential, commercial or industrial property, occupied or unoccupied. |
RECYCLABLE COLLECTION CONTAINER: | A container, bag, bin, roll-off drop box or other container used to hold recyclable materials placed for collection. |
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS: | Those waste materials generated on or emanating from residential, commercial or industrial property that are placed for collection in a city approved container for recycling. Such materials include, but are not limited to, aluminum cans, bimetal cans, cardboard, glass containers, plastic containers, newspaper, paper, and other materials designated as recyclable by the city which, due to their nature, are discarded by the producer. |
RECYCLE OR RECYCLING: | The process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating and reconstituting material that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused or reconstituted products. |
RECYCLING DROP OFF LOCATION: | A place where recyclable materials may be dropped off either for payment for goods received or as a donation. |
SANITARY LANDFILL: | A site for solid waste disposal approved by the California integrated waste management board. |
SHALL: | Mandatory. |
SOLID WASTE: | The designated all inclusive term for all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid waste including garbage, wet garbage, trash, refuse, ashes, industrial wastes, construction and demolition wastes, bulky waste, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid wastes. Solid waste does not include hazardous or household hazardous waste, medical waste or low level radioactive waste. (Ord. 2929 § 2, 2021: Ord. 2382 § 1, 1998) |