For use in these chapters the following terms are defined:
1. “Agency” means the Metropolitan Waste Authority.
2. “Bags” means any untreated paper bags acceptable to the composting station used by the licensed yard waste collection hauler.
3. “Bundle” means a stack of brush and/or tree branches that are tied or bound together and do not exceed four (4) feet in length and twelve (12) inches in diameter.
4. “Collector” means any person authorized to gather solid waste from public and private places.
5. “Composting” means a controlled microbial degradation of organic waste to produce a relatively nuisance-free product of potential value as soil conditioner.
6. “Container” means a reusable receptacle constructed of plastic or metal materials.
7. “Discard” means to place, cause to be placed, throw, deposit, or drop.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.361[2])
8. “Dwelling unit” means any room or group of rooms located within a structure and forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used, or are intended to be used, for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
9. “Eligible residence” means a residence of not more than four dwelling units.
10. “Facility” means the facility or facilities designated by the City to which the hauler shall deliver all recyclable material collected by the hauler.
11. “Garbage” means all solid and semisolid, putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparing, cooking, storing, serving and consuming of food or of material intended for use as food, and all offal, excluding useful industrial by-products, and includes all such substances from all public and private establishments and from all residences.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
12. “Litter” means any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, waste materials, or debris.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.361[1])
13. “Non-recyclable material” means any material not defined as “recyclable material.”
14. “Owner” means, in addition to the record titleholder, any person residing in, renting, leasing, occupying, operating or transacting business in any premises, and as between such parties the duties, responsibilities, liabilities and obligations hereinafter imposed shall be joint and several.
15. “Recyclable material” means material accepted by the Agency as recyclable. The Agency will provide the parameters on which material will be accepted through its recycling operations. This information will be provided to the public on a regular basis and will also be available at City Hall.
16. “Refuse” means putrescible and non-putrescible waste, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residues, street cleanings, market and industrial solid waste and sewage treatment waste in dry or semisolid form.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
17. “Residential waste” means any refuse generated on the premises as a result of residential activities. The term includes landscape waste grown on the premises or deposited thereon by the elements, but excludes garbage, tires, trade wastes and any locally recyclable goods or plastics.
(IAC, 567-20.2[455B])
18. “Rubbish” means non-putrescible solid waste consisting of combustible and non-combustible waste, such as ashes, paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, or litter of any kind.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
19. “Sanitary disposal” means a method of treating solid waste so that it does not produce a hazard to the public health or safety or create a nuisance.
(IAC, 567-100.2)
20. “Sanitary disposal project” means all facilities and appurtenances, including all real and personal property connected with such facilities, which are acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, equipped, improved, extended, maintained, and/or operated by the Agency to facilitate the final disposition of solid waste. The term includes any sanitary landfill, transfer station, or resource recovery system owned or operated by the Agency.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.301)
21. “Set out” means the action event or instance comprised of the proper placement of the home storage containers of recyclable material for collection at the eligible residence.
22. “Solid waste” means garbage, refuse, rubbish, and other similar discarded solid or semisolid materials, including but not limited to such materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and domestic activities. Solid waste may include motor vehicles, if approved by the Agency. The term excludes yard waste and may exclude other materials as defined by the Agency. Solid waste does not include any of the following:
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 455B.301)
A. Hazardous waste regulated under the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6921-6934.
B. Hazardous waste as defined in Section 455B.411 of the Code of Iowa, except to the extent that rules allowing for the disposal of specific wastes have been adopted by the State Environmental Protection Commission.
C. Source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended to January 1, 1979.
D. Petroleum contaminated soil that has been remediated to acceptable State or federal standards.
E. Steel slag which is a product resulting from the steel manufacturing process and is managed as an item of value in a controlled manner and not as a discarded material.
23. “Yard waste” means organic debris such as grass clippings, leaves, garden waste, prunings, weeds, brush, and tree branches produced as a part of yard and garden development and maintenance. Yard waste does not include tree stumps.
24. “Landscape waste” means any vegetable or plant wastes, except garbage. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery, and yard trimmings.
(Subsection 24 – Ord. 22-04 – Oct. 22 Supp.)
25. “Structure” means any building, house, shed, garage, outbuilding, storage building, carport, awning, or other such property which is constructed with any combination of walls or a roof.
(Subsection 25 – Ord. 22-04 – Oct. 22 Supp.)