For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE. Includes household chemicals that have the potential to pollute the environment. The characteristics of the substances will be considered HAZARDOUS if 1 or more of the following could occur: become acidic or caustic; become toxic, long or short term, from exposure; produce or potential to produce toxic leachate; potentially explosive or reactive; potential to initiate fires or catch fire.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Waste that is generated by business or industry.
LITTERING. The placing of refuse, debris, waste or similar material, hereafter referred to as litter materials, on properties, roadways and rights-of-way other than that owned by the owner or carrier of the litter, either by deliberate act or by being dropped or blown from a vehicle while being transported due to failure to take proper safeguards to prevent the same.
PUTRESCIBLE MATERIAL OR GARBAGE. Solid waste which is capable of becoming rotten or which may reach a foul state of decay or decomposition.
RECYCLABLES. Those materials named by resolution and accepted by the recycling collection service to be separated from the solid waste stream.
RECYCLING COLLECTION SERVICE. Any commercial business or other entity established to collect, transport, process, store, redeem or dispose of recyclables and who is Murray County licensed and contracted by the City of Slayton.
REFUSE. Putrescible and non-putrescible solid wastes, including, but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residue, street cleanings, market and industrial solid wastes, and sewage treatment wastes which are in a dry form.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. All occupied single and double-family dwellings, mobile homes and mobile home parks.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage, refuse and other discarded solid materials, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural operations, residential uses and community activities, but does not include earthen fill, boulders, rock and other materials normally handled in construction operations, animal waste used as fertilizer, any permitted material disposed of as soil amendment, solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, wastewater effluent, dissolved materials, suspended solids in irrigation, return flows, or other water pollutants.
SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE. The collection and transporting of solid waste generated in Slayton by a Murray County licensed hauling service contracted by the city.
TOXIC OR HAZARDOUS WASTES. Substances, whether in liquid, gaseous or solid form, which when collected, stored, transported or disposed of, may be acutely toxic to humans, or other animals, or plant life, or be directly damaging to property including, but not limited to, pesticides, acids, caustics, pathological wastes, radioactive materials, flammable or explosive materials, and similar noxious substances.
WHITE GOODS. Include household items such as stoves, refrigerators, washers, dryers, hot water heaters, furnaces, air conditioners, dishwashers, microwave ovens, television sets and freezers.
YARD WASTE. Includes leaves, trees (branches, twigs, stumps, roots, trunks) garden waste and grass clippings.
(Prior Code, § 11.101)