For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning.
AGRICULTURAL ESTABLISHMENT. An establishment engaged in the rearing and slaughtering of animals and the processing of animal products or orchard and field crops.
BULKY WASTE. Items whose large size precludes or complicates their handling by normal collection, processing, or disposal methods.
COMMERCIAL UNIT. Commercial units shall be all property other than residential units and shall include boarding houses, motels, and resorts.
CURB. The back edge or curb and gutter along a paved street, or where one would be if the street was paved and had curb and gutter.
DEMOLITION WASTES. The portion of solid wastes consisting of wastes from the repair, remodeling, or reconstruction of buildings, such as lumber, roofing, and sheathing scraps, rubble, broken concrete, asphalt and plaster, conduit, pipe, wire, insulation, and any other materials resulting from the demolition of buildings and improvements.
DISPOSAL. The orderly process of discarding useless or unwanted material.
DNR. The State Department of Natural Resources.
DUMP. A land site where solid waste is disposed of in a manner that does not protect the environment.
DWELLING UNIT. A place of habitation occupied by a normal single-family unit or a combination of persons who may be considered as equivalent to a single-family unit for the purposes of this chapter.
GARBAGE. Includes every refuse accumulation of animals, fruit or vegetable matter, liquid, or otherwise, that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in, or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, or vegetables originally used for foodstuffs.
HAZARDOUS WASTE. Those wastes such as toxic, radioactive, or pathogenic substances which require special handling to avoid illness or injury to persons, or damage to property and the environment.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Waste material, except garbage, rubbish, and refuse, directly or indirectly resulting from an industrial processing or manufacturing operation.
LITTER. Solid waste scattered about in a careless manner, usually rubbish.
NON-RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste from agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional activities or a building, or group of buildings consisting of four or more dwelling units.
PERSON. Individuals, firms, corporations, and associations, and includes the plural as well as the singular.
PRIVATE COLLECTION SERVICES. Collection services provided by a person licensed to do same by the DNR.
RECYCLABLE WASTE. Waste material that can be remanufactured into usable products and shall include, by way of enumeration but not by way of limitation, glass, plastics, newspapers, cardboard, metals (aluminum, steel, tin, brass, and the like).
REFUSE. Includes all waste material, including garbage, rubbish, and industrial waste and shall, by way of enumeration but not by way of limitation, include grass, leaves, sticks, tree branches and logs, stumps, stone, cement, boards, furniture or household appliances, or garden debris.
RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE. All solid waste that normally originates in a residential environment from residential dwelling units.
RESIDENTIAL UNIT. An individual household capable of independent habitation by a family unit. A single-family dwelling shall be considered to be one residential unit; multi-family dwelling shall be considered to be multiple residential units, the number of residential units to equal the number of family units to be housed therein. RESIDENTIAL UNITS shall not include boarding houses, motels, or resorts.
RUBBISH. Includes combustible and noncombustible waste material, except rocks, concrete, bricks, and similar solid materials, plaster, or dirt, that is incidental to the operation of a building and shall include, by way of enumeration but not by way of limitation, tin cans, bottles, rags, paper, cardboard, sweepings.
SCAVENGING. The uncontrolled removal of materials at any point in solid waste management.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage, rubbish, and other useless, unwanted or discarded material from agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional activities. SOLID WASTE does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage.
STORAGE. The interim containment of solid waste in an approved manner after generation and prior to collection and ultimate disposal.
STORAGE AREAS. Areas where persons place containers during non-collection days as well as areas where containers are set out on collection day.
(Prior Code, § 8-3-3)