For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined as follows:
(a) “Contaminant” shall mean sewage, sludge, cesspool or septic tank effluent, an accumulation of human excreta, or liquid industrial waste.
(b) “Fill” shall mean deposits of soil, rock, or other irreducible materials placed by man.
(c) “Garbage” shall mean all solid putrescible wastes and all solid animal or vegetable refuse or residue which shall result from the preparation or care for, or treatment of, foodstuffs intended to be used as food, or shall have resulted from the preparation or handling of food for human consumption, or any decayed or unsound meat, fish, fruit, or vegetables, or the excreta from domestic animals.
(d) “Industrial waste” shall mean any and all liquid or solid waste substances, not sewage, from any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation of whatever nature.
(e) “Litter” shall mean and include garbage, rubbish, and refuse as defined in this section, except that litter shall not include fill.
(f) “Person” shall mean any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, joint venture, corporation, business trust, or company and any officer or agent thereof.
(g) “Refuse” shall mean and include all types of, but not be restricted to, putrescible or non-putrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and non-combustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, garbage, grass clippings, tree or shrub trimmings, wood, bedding, crockery, rubber tires, construction and demolition waste, and similar waste materials, except sewage and liquid industrial wastes.
(h) “Rubbish” shall mean solid non-putrescible wastes, such as unusable, unwanted, or discarded material and debris resulting from normal community or business activities, or materials which by their presence may injuriously affect the health, safety, and comfort of persons and/or depreciate property values in the vicinity thereof. (§ 1, Ord. 619, as amended by § 3, Ord. 903, eff. February 12, 1981)