For the purposes of this chapter, certain words and terms are defined as follows.
CUSTOMER. The person or business, or an agent or employee of the person or business, who made arrangements with the city to use the services described in this chapter.
GARBAGE.
(1) Garbage, rubbish, rubble, organic materials or street sweepings.
(2) All organic or inorganic materials not defined herein as garbage or rubble, which are rejected, abandoned or discarded by the owners or producers thereof, as offensive or useless or no longer desired by the owners or producers. These materials include, but are not limited to pasteboard boxes, paper, rags and clothing; discarded or abandoned bedding; discarded or abandoned mattresses; discarded or abandoned carpets; discarded or abandoned oilcloth or linoleum; sweepings or cleanings from buildings; bottles, tin cans or containers, broken crockery and glassware; old metals, wire packaging or wrapping materials; ashes; rope, twine, jute, bagging or burlap.
GARBAGE ACCUMULATIONS. Garbage accumulations of animal, fruit or vegetable matter that attend the storage, sale, preparation and use of meat, fish, fowl, fruits, vegetable; tin cans or other containers originally used for foodstuffs; any other discarded or abandoned putrescible, organic materials.
LOADED WEIGHT. Loaded weight of containers shall not exceed the manufacturer’s recommendation. Containers shall not be over-filled past lid level such that spillage may occur when dumping container.
NONSTANDARD CONTAINERS. Nonstandard containers shall be tagged and marked but will not be emptied. Marked containers shall be disposed of if reused.
ORGANIC MATERIALS or ORGANICS. Food scraps and trimmings from food preparation, including, but not limited to meat, fish and dairy waste, fruit and vegetable waste, and biodegradable food packaging items such as pizza boxes, paper towels, waxed cardboards, food contaminated paper products, plant debris, such as leaves, grass, weeds and wood materials from trees and shrubs.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS or RECYCLABLES. Those materials separated from garbage by the generator which are capable of being recycled and which would otherwise be processed or disposed of as garbage.
RUBBLE. Stones, concrete, plaster, bricks and similar solid material, sod, dirt and similar abandoned or discarded inorganic, noncombustible, nonputrescible materials; building construction or demolition waste materials.
SOLID WASTE MANAGER. The Director of the Department of Public Utilities of the city or such person designated by him or her to manage or oversee the garbage collection and disposal and street sweeping services for the city.
SPECIAL HAUL. Any garbage collection service beyond the standard service. Special haul service will be provided to the customer at an extra cost.
STANDARD CONTAINERS. Plastic 96- gallon containers owned by the city, supplied to customers and serviced by the city’s solid waste automated collection vehicles.
STREET SWEEPINGS. Litter or other debris which has accumulated upon streets, roadways and other public highways and necessitates the periodic collection thereof by street sweepers.
(1995 Code, § 7.16.010) (Ord. 18-05, passed 9-18-2018)