[R.O. §13.04.010; Ord. No. 5689 §II, 10-5-2006]
For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below:
An incinerator which complies with all current regulations of the Missouri Air Conservation Commission.
A battery designed to contain lead and sulfuric acid with a nominal voltage of at least six (6) volts and of the type intended for use in motor vehicles and watercraft.
All non-putrescible, non-liquid solid wastes, whether combustible or non-combustible, which are either too large or too heavy to be safely and conveniently loaded into vehicles designed for solid waste collection (packer trucks) without additional loading equipment and/or manpower.
The City Manager for the City of Sikeston, Missouri, or his/her designee.
Uncontaminated soil, rock, sand, gravel, concrete, asphaltic concrete, cinder blocks, brick, minimal amounts of wood and metal and inert solids as approved by rule or policy of the Department of Natural Resources for fill, reclamation or other beneficial use.
The pickup and removal of all waste materials as specified herein in a manner and by a method that fully contains all such materials to be delivered to the disposal site, both in loading and transportation phases of the operation.
A person, firm or corporation with whom the City has contracted for performance of one (1) or more elements of residential and/or commercial solid waste management for the City or a person, firm or corporation licensed by the City to perform one (1) or more elements of residential and/or commercial solid waste management in the City.
Any location or place where business is or could be conducted or any dwelling unit under one (1) roof containing five (5) or more individual residences or any grouping of five (5) or more individual dwelling units offered for rent, regardless of length of stay, operated by any person(s), firm or corporation in the normal pursuit of profit or revenue generation.
Waste materials from the construction and demolition of residential, industrial, or commercial structures, but shall not include materials defined as clean fill under Section 260.200, RSMo.
The City Council for the City of Sikeston, Missouri.
A solid waste disposal area used for the controlled disposal of demolition wastes, construction materials, brush, wood wastes, soil, rock, concrete and inert solids insoluble in water.
The State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
Disposable plastic or paper sacks with a capacity of twenty (20) gallons to thirty-five (35) gallons specifically designed for storage of solid waste.
The delivery of solid waste to any appropriate site designed, permitted or licensed by the appropriate State agency(ies) including, but not necessarily limited to, incineration, composting, recycling, baling, shredding, salvaging, compacting, landfill and/or other facility.
Any room or group of rooms within or on any premises and forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used as a domicile, which may or may not include living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States Government.
Waste which includes any of the following: putrescible animal, vegetable or mineral wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, serving, storage or consumption of food or paper, packaging and other like items which result from routine household living activities.
Any waste or combination of wastes, as determined by the Commission by rules and regulations, which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness, or pose a present or potential threat to the health of humans or the environment.
Waste in quantities and characteristics as determined by the department by rule and regulation, including the following wastes known or suspected to be infectious: isolation wastes, cultures and stocks of etiologic agents, contaminated blood and blood products, other contaminated surgical wastes, wastes from autopsy, contaminated laboratory wastes, sharps, dialysis unit wastes, discarded biologicals and antineoplastic chemotherapeutic materials; provided however, that infectious waste does not mean waste treated to department specifications.
Clothes washers and dryers, water heaters, trash compactors, dishwashers, microwave ovens, conventional ovens, ranges, stoves, woodstoves, air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers.
Any person who alone or jointly or severally with others shall be in the actual possession of any dwelling unit or any other improved real property, either as owner or tenant, receiving solid waste services.
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution, city, county, other political subdivision, authority, state agency or institution, or federal agency or institution.
Incinerating, composting, baling, shredding, salvaging, compacting and other processes whereby solid waste characteristics are modified or solid waste quantity is reduced.
Those materials which have been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse or recycling, whether or not they require subsequent separation and processing.
The separation and reuse of materials which might otherwise be disposed of as solid waste.
Solid waste:
COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE: Solid waste resulting from the operation of any commercial, industrial, institutional or agricultural establishment and multiple-housing facilities with more than five (5) dwelling units.
RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE: Solid waste resulting from the maintenance and operation of dwelling units, excluding multiple-housing facilities with more than five (5) dwelling waste collections.
A process by which recyclable and recoverable material is removed from the waste stream to the greatest extent possible, as determined by DNR and pursuant to DNR standards, for reuse or remanufacture
A solid waste disposal area, licensed and permitted by the State of Missouri, which accepts commercial and residential solid waste.
Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials including, but not limited to, solid and semisolid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, governmental and domestic activities, but does not include hazardous waste as defined in Sections 260.360 to 260.432, RSMo., recovered materials, overburden, rock, tailings, matte, slag or other waste material resulting from mining, milling or smelting.
A receptacle used by any person to store solid waste during the interval between solid waste collections.
The entire composite solid waste system of storage, collection, transportation, processing and disposal of any waste.
Any facility where solid waste is salvaged and processed including:
Keeping, maintaining, storing and depositing for collection of solid waste from its time of production until its time of collection.
A continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor vehicle, trailer or wheels of other machinery.
The conveying of waste(s) or material(s) collected to an approved disposal site or processing facility, in a legal manner, with proper containment by truck or other appropriate vehicle.
A solid waste disposal area used for fly ash waste, bottom ash waste, slag waste and flue gas emission control waste generated primarily from the combustion of coal or other fossil fuels.
A tire that is no longer suitable for its original intended purpose because of wear, damage or defect.
Leaves, grass clippings, yard and garden vegetation and Christmas trees. The term does not include stumps, roots or shrubs with intact root balls.