The following words, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(a) "Garbage" means and includes all refuse, accumulation of animal, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetable matter that attends the preparation, use, cooking, retail or wholesale dealing in, or storing of, meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetables, and all foodstuffs condemned as unfit for use by the proper authorities, and shall include garbage wrapped in paper, or its equivalent.
(b) "Person" includes any individual, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
(c) "Rubbish" means and includes all discarded paper, pasteboard, rags, old shoes, straw, excelsior, tin cans, broken glass, crockery, lawn and grass trimmings, and similar ordinary household trash, in containers. (1972 Code §9-1-1)