For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY. The City of Tillamook.
CITY COUNCIL. The City Council of Tillamook, Oregon.
COLLECTION FRANCHISE. A franchise granting exclusive rights to provide solid waste collection and transport services for compensation within a defined service area in accordance with this subchapter.
FRANCHISEE. The holder under contract of any collection franchise under this subchapter.
GROSS REVENUE. The amount of money actually collected, less waste container rental, tipping fees and revenues from recyclable materials, by the franchisee from his or her city customers by franchisee during the quarter of time in question.
PERSON. Individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, joint stock companies, estates, trusts or any other legal entity.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL. Any material or group of materials that can be collected and sold for recycling at a net cost equal to or less than the cost of collection and disposal of the same material.
RECYCLABLE RECOVERY. The process of obtaining useful material or energy resources from solid waste and includes energy recovery, material recovery, recycling and reuse.
RECYCLING. Any process by which solid waste materials are transformed into new products and may lose their identity.
REUSE. The return of a commodity into the economic stream for use in the same kind of application as before without change in its identity.
SERVICE. “Collection service”, as defined by O.R.S. 459.005, which SERVICE includes the collection, transportation, recycling or other resource recovery of or from solid waste or recyclable material, or both.
SOLID WASTE. All putrescible and nonputrescible wastes, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, refuse, ashes, waste paper, cardboard, sewage sludge, septic tank and cesspool pumpings or other sludge; commercial, industrial, demolition and construction wastes; partially burned materials, discarded materials, discarded or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof; discarded home and industrial appliances; manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid wastes, dead animals, infectious waste, as defined in O.R.S. 459.386, and other wastes. SOLID WASTE does not include:
(1) “Hazardous wastes”, as defined in O.R.S. 466.005; and
(2) Materials used for fertilizer or for other productive purposes or which are salvageable as these materials are used on land in agricultural operations and the growing or harvesting of crops and the raising of animals.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT. The prevention or reduction of solid waste; management of the storage, transfer, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization processing and final disposal of solid waste; or the resource recovery from solid waste, and facilities used for those activities.
SOURCE SEPARATE. Recyclable materials that have been separated from the solid waste stream by the person who last used the recyclable materials.
WASTE. Material that is no longer wanted or useable by the source generator or producer of the material, and the material is to be disposed of or resource-recovered by another person, and includes both source separated material and non-source separated materials.
(Prior Code, § 50.03) (Ord. 1155, passed 6-1-1998)