911.01 DEFINITIONS.

   The following definitions shall be applied to terms used in this chapter.

   (a)    "Waste" means all trash, rubbish, garbage, offal and other refuse or discarded matter required to be removed from private and public places. It shall not include recognized by-products of any business or industry having commercial value and regularly handled in the ordinary course of business, unless the by-products, or the handling of them shall become a nuisance or menace to the public health.

   (b)    "Combustible waste" means all waste substances capable of incineration or burning, including garbage, paper, rags, excelsior, wood, grass, leaves and the like.

   (c)    "Noncombustible waste" means all waste substances incapable of incineration or burning, including tin cans, tinware and other metallic substances, bottles, glassware, earthenware, ashes and the like and also discarded articles the greater part of which is incapable of incineration or burning, such as asphalt roofing material, electric batteries, etc.

   (d)    "Garbage" means all putrescible wastes, including vegetable and animal offal, carcasses of dead animals and the like, excluding recognized industrial by-products.

   (e)    "Ashes" means the residue of combustion of such fuels as wood, coal, coke, charcoal and the like.

   (f)    "Commercial waste" means all wastes, combustible and noncombustible, arising out of the operation of business and industry and all other wastes not resulting from the ordinary operations of private residences or households.

      (Ord. 707. Passed 8-28-42.)