When used in this chapter, the following words, terms and phrases
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except when
the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
Solid waste items of such size or quantity that cannot feasibly
be collected in a normal solid waste collection container. Bulky waste
includes, but is not limited to, furniture, carpet, mattresses, and
appliances.
The removal of solid waste, recycling, and brush and bulky
waste from curbside, alleyway or designated commercial properties.
Receptacles furnished by the City to commercial customers
to store solid waste.
All types of solid waste generated by businesses, restaurants,
warehouses, and manufacturing facilities.
The contract setting forth the terms and conditions for commercial
collection services between a commercial customer and the City.
Nontoxic, nonflammable chemicals containing carbon, chlorine,
and fluorine.
The person holding the office of Director of the Sanitation
Department for the City and includes the designated representative
of that person.
The facility in the City where residential customers may
deliver and deposit recycle materials.
Discarded appliances such as refrigerators, stoves, washing
machines, or dishwashers.
Any solid waste identified or listed as household hazardous
waste by the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) pursuant to federal law. HHW includes, but is not limited
to, ammonia-based cleaners, drain and oven cleaners, fire extinguishers,
floor care products, furniture and metal polishes, insect sprays,
aerosol spray paint, antifreeze, automatic transmission and brake
fluids, diesel fuel, gasoline, car batteries, automotive cleaning
products, kerosene, latex paint, oil-based paint, motor oil, oil filters,
paint stripper and thinner, propane tanks, turpentine varnish, wood
preservatives, fertilizer, fungicide, herbicide, pesticide, alkaline
additives, pool chlorine and cleaners, muriatic acid and pool shock
treatment.
A facility in the City used for the disposal of solid waste
where the principles of engineering are utilized to confine the refuse
to the smallest practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical
volume, and to cover it with a layer of earth at the conclusion of
each day’s operation or at more frequent intervals as may be
necessary.
Such items as yard trimmings, brush, clean wood material,
tree trimmings, vegetative material, leaves, grass clippings, mixed
yard waste, leaf mulch, and shrubbery.
A solid waste or single stream recycle container that was
not collected because it was set out after the collection vehicle
has passed through the area.
Those materials that have been recovered or diverted from
the waste stream for purposes of reuse, recycling, or reclamation,
a substantial portion of which is consistently used in the manufacture
of products that may otherwise be produced using raw or virgin materials.
A reusable plastic container furnished by the City to store
solid waste.
The department of the City responsible for sanitation services,
including, but not limited to: collection, transportation and disposal
of solid waste, landscape waste, bulky waste, and recycle materials.
The removal of any contents from a solid waste or single
stream recycle container, recycle bin, and bulky items at a customer
location by anyone other than the customer or the City.
Receptacles furnished by the City to store recycle materials.
A system in which all recycling commodities, including paper
fibers, plastics, metals, and glass are accumulated together in container(s)
for collection, instead of being sorted or separated by the customer.
Any and all garbage, trash, refuse and other discarded material
held or accumulated in containers, including animal and vegetable
waste materials resulting from the preparation, processing or consumption
of food; combustible waste material such as paper, rags, cartons,
boxes, plastics; noncombustible waste materials such as glass, crockery
and metal cans; provided, however, that solid waste does not include
hazardous waste or biomedical waste.
Any commercial or residential garbage, trash, rubbish, hazardous
waste, infectious waste, or other solid waste that because of its
quantity, concentration, physical or chemical characteristics or biological
properties is not accepted at the landfill for disposal.
A facility used for storage of solid waste delivered by collection
vehicles, and residential and commercial customers. All waste received
at the transfer station is transported to the landfill for disposal.
The facility in the City where shrubs, tree limbs, tree trunks,
and similar woody materials are collected and ground into wood mulch.
Grass, weeds, leaves, tree trimmings, plants shrubbery pruning,
and such other similar materials which are generated in the maintenance
of yards, gardens, or commercial landscaping in the City.
(Ordinance 6907 adopted 5/16/17; Ordinance 7280 adopted 1/4/22)
The Director shall have primary responsibility for the enforcement
and execution of these articles.
(Ordinance 5038, sec. 1, adopted 12/3/96; Ordinance 6907 adopted 5/16/17; Ordinance
7280 adopted 1/4/22)
