For purposes of this Chapter, these applicable terms shall be defined as follows:
Authorized private receptacle means a litter storage or collection receptacle authorized or approved as an acceptable collection device by the Director of Solid Waste or other appropriate regulatory authority.
Authorized recycling contractor means any person who operates a recycling program for the City and who contracts with the City or residents for the organized collection of their recyclable materials.
Authorized recycling receptacle means a storage or collection receptacle, bag, or other container in which paper products, glass, aluminum and other metals, plastic, and containers made in whole or in part of aluminum, bimetal, or plastic and such other recyclable material is separated and segregated from other garbage, trash, or refuse and which has affixed on the receptacle the name or identification mark of an authorized recycling contractor or recycling program or a similar designation that distinguished the recyclable material from other garbage, trash, or refuse.
Brush means tree trimmings, weeds, large hedge trimmings, and trees less than three (3) inches in diameter.
Commercial hauler means a person in the business of collecting and transporting solid waste.
Designated recycling location means a place approved by the Solid Waste Department that is designated in the contract between a recycling program and a resident from which the authorized recycling contractor has contracted to collect recyclable material, or any other place authorized by the Solid Waste Department, including but not limited to, the edge of a public street, curbside, or designated drop-off station.
Director means the Director of Solid Waste.
Garbage means any putrescible animal or vegetable waste materials resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods, including waste materials from markets, storage facilities, handling and sale of produce and other food products. The term "garbage" also means admixtures of animal or vegetable waste with rubbish, but does not include dead animal carcasses.
Landfill means the grounds now used or hereafter designated by the City for the disposal of garbage, trash, refuse, debris and other municipal wastes, whether liquid or solid.
Litter means garbage, refuse, and rubbish as defined herein and all other material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited, tends to create a danger to the public health, safety or welfare.
Packout refers to a residential customer placing his or her household garbage at a location not within 6 feet of the curb or street edge, but approved by the Director of Solid Waste.
Person means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
Recyclable material means materials such as, but not limited to, paper products, glass, aluminum and the metals, plastic and containers made in whole or in part of aluminum, bimetal, or plastic, which are separated and segregated from other garbage, trash or refuse for the purpose of recycling and which are placed in a recycling receptacle for use in a recycling program.
Recycling means the process of collecting and turning used products into new products by reprocessing or remanufacturing them.
Recycling program means the solicitation and organized collection of recyclable material by an authorized recycling contractor or the Solid Waste Department for the purpose of resource recovery and recycling in pursuit of the goals of the contractor.
Refuse means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes) including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleaning, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, and solid market and industrial wastes.
Rubbish means nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
Setout refers to a residential customer placing his or her household garbage within 6 feet of the curb, street edge or place, as designated by the Director of Solid Waste.
Solid waste means any discarded or unwanted solid materials, garbage, brush, refuse, rubbish, junk, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, municipal, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community and institutional activities but does not include:
a. Solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved material in irrigation return flows, or industrial discharges subject to regulation by permit issued pursuant to state law; (Note)
b. Soil, dirt, rock, sand and other natural or manmade inert solid materials used to fill land if the object of depositing same is to render the land suitable for the construction of surface improvements; and
c. Waste materials which result from activities associated with exploration, development, or production of oil or gas and are subject to the jurisdiction or control of the Texas Railroad Commission.
Yard waste means nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of yard clippings, leaves, wood, and similar materials. (Ord. No. 0-97-53, 11/5/97) (Ord. No. 0-2003-55, 10/22/03)
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