For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined as provided for below. Certain definitions shall have the same meaning as established in AB 939, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, as amended from time to time, and the regulations of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CALRecycle) codified at Title
14 of the
California Code of Regulations, Division 7 (commencing with Section 17000), as amended from time to time, which definitions shall take precedence to be consistent with State law and regulations.
"AB 939"
means the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989,
codified in part at
Public Resources Code Section 40000 et seq., as
it may be amended from time to time and as implemented by the regulations
of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery,
or its successor.
"Anaerobic digestion facility" ("AD facility")
means a facility that uses a biological process that decomposes
organic matter in an environment with little or no oxygen resulting
in a biogas and a liquid/solid stream called anaerobic digestate.
The decomposition occurs in a four-step process: hydrolysis, acidogenesis,
acetogenesis, and methanogenesis to break down organic matter into
methane, carbon dioxide, water, and anaerobic digestate/residuals.
"Bioengineered feedstock"
means a mixture of materials utilized in wastewater treatment
plants (WWTP's) or publicly owned treatment works (POTW's) to produce
biogas. This process is also referred to as "wet anaerobic digestion."
Bioengineered feedstock may include primary and/or secondary sludge,
greases from the WWTP grease trap, and organic materials such as food
scraps from households or other organic materials from industries
that have been pretreated and liquefied to the required consistency.
"Bioengineered feedstock facility"
means a processing facility that accepts food scraps and
other bioengineered feedstock, chops, macerates or otherwise size-reduces
the incoming materials, mixes the material with liquid, and produces
a slurry which is then transported or otherwise delivered to a wastewater
treatment plant or similar facility for use as a bioengineered feedstock
to produce methane.
"Biomass conversion facility" (biomass)
means a facility which uses the controlled combustion of
the following materials (when separated from MSW) to produce electricity
or heat: (1) agricultural crop residues; (2) bark, lawn, yard and
garden clippings; (3) leaves, silviculture residue, tree and brush
prunings; (4) wood, wood chips and wood waste; or (5) non-recyclable
pulp or non-recyclable paper.
"Blue container"
means a container where either: (a) the lid of the container
is in blue color; or (b) the body of the container is blue in color
and the lid is either blue, gray, or black in color. Hardware such
as hinges and wheels on a blue container may be any color. Blue containers
shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of recyclable
materials.
"Brown container"
means a container where either: (1) The lid of the container is brown in color; or (2) the body of the container is brown in color and the lid is either brown, gray, or black in color. Hardware such as hinges and wheels on a brown container may be any color. Brown containers shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of food scraps only if directed by the city in accordance to Section
8.12.200 of this chapter.
"Bulky goods"
means furniture, household or industrial appliances, mattresses,
shipping crate, oversized yard waste such as tree trunks and large
branches if no larger than two feet in diameter and four feet in length,
and other large, bulky or heavy objects not normally discarded on
a regular basis at single-family and multifamily dwellings, or commercial
establishments. Bulky goods does not include automobile bodies or
construction and demolition debris.
"City property"
means property that the City of Rancho Mirage owns in fee
or over which it has an easement, including but not limited to public
streets, public right-of-ways, and public parkways.
"City receptacles"
means any object designed and used to hold MSW and divertible
materials provided by the city for public use such as city parks,
city facilities and facilities maintained by the city.
"Clean materials recovery facility" or "clean MRF"
means a MRF, or that portion of a MRF that processes recyclable
materials such as single-material recyclables and single stream recyclable
materials, containing no more than the maximum residue allowed by
CALRecycle permit regulations (ten percent residue).
"Collection" or "collect"
means the taking of physical possession of MSW, recyclable
materials, yard trimmings, food scraps, construction and demolition
debris or other materials from customers, and their transport to a
processing facility, transfer station or landfill.
"Commercial business" or "commercial"
means a firm, partnership, proprietorship, joint-stock company,
corporation, or association, whether for-profit or nonprofit, strip
mall, industrial facility, or a multifamily residential dwelling.
A multifamily residential dwelling that consists of fewer than five
units is not a commercial business for purposes of implementing this
chapter.
"Commercial edible food generator"
includes a tier one or a tier two commercial edible food
generator as defined below. For the purposes of this definition, food
recovery organizations and food recovery services are not commercial
edible food generators.
B.
"Tier Two Commercial Edible Food Generator"
means a commercial edible food generator that is one of the
following:
1.
Restaurant with two hundred fifty or more seats, or a total
facility size equal to or greater than five thousand square feet.
2.
Hotel with an on-site food facility and two hundred or more
rooms.
3.
Health facility with an on-site food facility and one hundred
or more beds.
6.
A State agency with a cafeteria with two hundred fifty or more
seats or total cafeteria facility size equal to or greater than five
thousand square feet.
7.
A local education agency facility with an on-site food facility.
"Community composting"
means any activity that composts green material, agricultural
material, food material, and vegetative food material, alone or in
combination, and the total amount of feedstock and compost on-site
at any one time does not exceed one hundred cubic yards and seven
hundred fifty square feet.
"Compliance review"
means a review of records by the city to determine compliance
with this chapter.
"Compost"
is the product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition
of organic material that are source separated from the MSW stream
and that has been sanitized through the generation of heat and processed
to further reduce pathogens (PFRP), as defined by the U.S. EPA (Code
of Federal Regulations Title 40, Part 503, Appendix B, Section B),
and stabilized to the point that it is beneficial to plant growth.
Compost bears little physical resemblance to the raw material from
which it originated. Compost is an organic matter source that has
the unique ability to improve the chemical, physical, and biological
characteristics of soils or growing media. It contains plant nutrients
but is typically not characterized as a fertilizer.
"Compost facility"
means a facility that processes one or more of the following
that have been source-separated from MSW: food scraps, yard trimmings,
wood, and food-soiled paper such as paper napkins and paper towels
by means of outdoor windrow composting, aerated static pile composting,
covered composting, vermiculture, or other outdoor composting methods
or covered composting with use of either finished compost or fabric,
synthetic or other type(s) of cover(s) applied to the composting piles.
"Contamination"
means materials which are not specified for collection in
particular containers and receptacles or for processing at any processing
facility and which would either interfere with such processing or
reduce the quality and value of the recovered materials. For example,
metals and plastics constitute "contamination" if placed in a food
scraps and yard trimmings container (or green container) and tree
trimmings or food scraps constitute "contamination" if placed in a
recyclable materials container (or blue container). Contamination
of MSW means the presence of divertible materials in the MSW container
(or gray container) such as recyclable materials, food scraps, construction
and demolition debris, and/or yard trimmings.
"Containers"
means any object designed and used to hold MSW and divertible
materials, recyclable materials, food scraps, yard trimmings or construction
and demolition debris to be collected by the franchisee. Containers
include carts, bins, open-top roll off boxes, and compactors.
"Construction"
means the building, rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation
or repair of any facility or structure or any portion thereof including
any tenant improvements to an existing facility or structure.
"Construction and demolition debris" or "C&D"
includes building materials such as wood, sheetrock, metals,
concrete, asphalt, dirt, yard trimmings from grubbing, packaging and
rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition
operations on pavements, houses, commercial and industrial buildings,
and other structures and improvements.
"Demolition"
means the decimating, razing, ruining, tearing down or wrecking
of any facility, structure, pavement, or building, whether in whole
or in part, whether interior or exterior.
"Disposal site"
means the city-designated landfill(s), transfer station(s)
or other facility(ies) used for the disposal of MSW.
"Divertible materials" or "divertible"
means recyclable materials, food scraps, yard trimmings,
wood, construction and demolition debris, special collection services
materials, and all other materials that can be diverted from disposal.
Divertible materials includes, but is not limited to, all materials
required to be diverted from disposal by city, CALRecycle or any state
or federal agency. Divertible materials includes food soiled paper
only when directed by the city and in accordance with the franchise.
"Diversion" or "to divert"
means any combination of recycling, sorting, composting,
and/or other processing activities conducted at a clean MRF, a compost
facility, an anaerobic digestion facility, a bioengineered feedstock
facility, a construction and demolition debris processing facility
or another city-approved processing facility in order to prepare,
use and/or market the materials for reuse, remanufacture, reconstitution
or to otherwise return the materials to the economic marketplace and
to prevent the materials from being disposed in a landfill.
"Diversion programs"
means collection of recyclable materials, yard trimmings,
food scraps, wood, construction and demolition debris, and processing
of said materials at a clean MRF, a compost facility, a construction
and demolition debris processing facility or other processing facility.
Diversion programs include all city special collection services and
other programs; and programs supported by residents, commercial businesses,
or other persons that have the effect of diverting materials from
landfill. diversion programs includes all of the programs included
in the city's source reduction and recycling element and all of the
programs included in the franchise.
"Edible food"
means food intended for human consumption. For the purposes
of this chapter, edible food is not MSW if it is recovered and not
discarded. Nothing in this chapter requires or authorizes the recovery
of edible food that does not meet the food safety requirements of
the California Retail Food Code.
"Electronic waste" or "e-waste"
includes discarded video display devices such as a television
screen, computer monitor, plasma television screen, computer CPUs,
LED screens and monitors, computer keyboards, computer mouse, printers,
desk copiers, multi-function desktop machines (such as a combination
printer/fax/copier), LED bulbs, VCRs, DVD/CD/tape players, cellular
telephones, microwave ovens, toasters, irons, stereos and speakers,
cables, scanners and all other corded appliances and corded devices.
"Food distributor"
means a company that distributes food to entities, including,
but not limited to, supermarkets and grocery stores.
"Food recovery"
means actions to collect and distribute food for human consumption
that otherwise would be disposed.
"Food recovery organization"
means an entity that engages in the collection or receipt
of edible food from commercial edible food generators and distributes
that edible food to the public for food recovery either directly or
through other entities, including, but not limited to:
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A food bank as defined in Section 113783 of the Health and Safety
Code;
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A nonprofit charitable organization as defined in Section 113841
of the Health and Safety code; and
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A nonprofit charitable temporary food facility as defined in
Section 113842 of the Health and Safety Code. A food recovery organization
is not a commercial edible food generator for the purposes of this
chapter.
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"Food recovery service"
means a person or entity that collects and transports edible
food from a commercial edible food generator to a food recovery organization
or other entities for food recovery. A food recovery service is not
a commercial edible food generator for the purposes of this chapter.
"Food scraps"
means material resulting from the production, processing,
preparation or cooking of food for human consumption that is separated
from MSW. Food scraps include surplus or unsold edible food, raw food
left over after food preparation, leftover cooked food, as well as
spoiled food such as vegetables and culls, and plate scrapings. Food
scraps includes, without limitation, food scraps from food facilities
as defined in California
Health and Safety Code Section 113789, food
processing establishments (as defined in California Health and Safety
Code Section 111955), grocery stores, farmer's markets, institutional
cafeterias (such as schools, hospitals and assisted living facilities),
restaurants, and residential food scraps. Food Scraps does not include
food soiled paper.
"Food service provider"
means an entity primarily engaged in providing food services
to institutional, governmental, commercial, or industrial locations
of others based on contractual arrangements with these types of organizations.
"Food soiled paper"
means material that has come in contact with food or liquid,
such as, but not limited to, paper towels, tissue products, paper
napkins, paper plates and cups, coffee filters, tea bags, waxed paper,
butcher paper, paper take-out boxes and food containers, greasy pizza
boxes, paper bags, cardboard and wax-coated cardboard produce boxes.
Food soiled paper does not include polystyrene, diapers, aluminum
foil or foil-lined food wrap.
"Franchise"
means the right or privilege conferred by the city, pursuant
to this chapter, on one or more private entities for the collection,
transportation or other handling of MSW, divertible materials, special
collection services, and temporary collection services.
"Franchisee"
means a solid waste enterprise having an agreement for garbage
collection with the city pursuant to this chapter.
"Generator"
means any person whose act first causes discarded materials
to become subject to regulation under this chapter or under federal,
State, or local laws or regulations. Generator also means a "customer."
"Gray container"
means a container where either: (a) the lid of the container
is gray or black in color, or (b) the body of the container is entirely
gray or black in color and the lid is gray or black in color. Hardware
such as hinges and wheels on a gray container may be any color. Gray
containers shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection
of MSW.
"Green container"
means a container where either: (a) the lid of the container
is green in color; or (b) the body of the container is green in color
and the lid is green, gray or black in color. Hardware such as hinges
and wheels on a green container may be any color.
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Green containers shall be used for the purpose of storage and
collection of food scraps and yard trimmings for single-family collection
service.
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The green container shall be limited to the storage and collection of food scraps for commercial and multifamily collection service, unless further segregation of food scraps and yard trimmings is required and directed by city in accordance with Section 8.12.100 of this chapter.
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"Grocery store"
means a store primarily engaged in the retail sale of canned
food; dry goods; fresh fruits and vegetables; fresh meats, fish, and
poultry; and any area that is not separately owned within the store
where the food is prepared and served, including a bakery, deli, and
meat and seafood departments.
"Hazardous waste"
means any substance, waste or mixture of wastes defined as
"hazardous substance" or "hazardous waste" pursuant to Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), 42 U.S.C. Section 9601 et seq., the comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA"),
42 U.S.C. Section 9601 et seq., and all future amendments to either
of them, or as defined by the California Department of Resources Recycling
and Recovery, and all substances defined as hazardous waste, acutely
hazardous waste, or extremely hazardous waste by the State in Health
and Safety Code Section 25110.02, Section 25115, and Section 25117
or in the future amendments to or recodifications of such statutes
or identified and listed as hazardous waste by the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). Where there is a conflict in the definitions
employed by two or more agencies having jurisdiction over hazardous
or solid waste, the term "hazardous waste" shall be construed to have
the broader, more encompassing definition.
"High diversion organic materials processing facility"
means a facility that is in compliance with the reporting
requirements of 14
CCR Section 18815.5(d) and meets or exceeds an
annual average mixed waste organic content recovery rate of fifty
percent between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024, and seventy-five
percent after January 1, 2025, as calculated pursuant to 14
CCR Section
18815.5(e) for organic waste received from the "mixed waste organic
collection stream" as defined in 14
CCR Section 17402(a)(11.5).
"Household hazardous waste" or "HHW"
means any hazardous waste generated incidental to owning
or maintaining a place of residence. Household hazardous waste does
not include any waste generated in the course of operating a business
or commercial activity at a residence or at any commercial business
establishment. Typical household hazardous wastes include used motor
oil and oil filters, antifreeze and other vehicle fluids, paints and
varnishes, pesticides, herbicides, pool chemicals and cleaning supplies.
"Inspection"
means a site visit where the city reviews records, containers,
receptacles, and an entity's collection, handling, recycling, or landfill
disposal of organic waste or edible food handling to determine if
the entity is complying with requirements set forth in this chapter.
"Large event"
means an event, including, but not limited to, a sporting
event or a flea market, that charges an admission price, or is operated
by a local agency, and serves an average of more than two thousand
individuals per day of operation of the event, at a location that
includes, but is not limited to, a public, nonprofit, or privately
owned park, parking lot, golf course, street system, or other open
space when being used for an event.
"Large venue"
means a permanent venue facility that annually seats or serves
an average of more than two thousand individuals within the grounds
of the facility per day of operation of the venue facility. For purposes
of this chapter and implementation of 14
CCR, Division 7, Chapter
12, a venue facility includes, but is not limited to, a public, nonprofit,
or privately owned or operated stadium, amphitheater, arena, hall,
amusement park, conference or civic center, zoo, aquarium, airport,
racetrack, horse track, performing arts center, fairground, museum,
theater, or other public attraction facility. For purposes of this
chapter and implementation of 14
CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12, a site
under common ownership or control that includes more than one large
venue that is contiguous with other large venues in the site, is a
single large venue.
"Local education agency"
means a school district, charter school, or county office
of education that is not subject to the control of city or county
regulations related to MSW and divertible materials.
"Mixed waste"
means organic waste collected in a container that is required
by 14
CCR Sections 18984.1, 18984.2 or 18984.3 to be taken to a high
diversion organic waste processing facility.
"Multifamily"
means a building, dwelling unit or complex containing multiple
dwelling units that house more than four residences and that receive
centralized collection service from containers (i.e. bins, carts,
compactors and/or roll off boxes) in enclosures or other designated
areas. Apartment complexes, condominiums, townhouses, gated developments,
HOAs, mobile home parks and similarly configured housing complexes
are included if they have centralized service. Multifamily does not
include single-family residences, duplexes, tri-plexes, four-plexes
or any residences that have individual cart collection service.
"Municipal solid waste" or "MSW",
for the purposes of this chapter, means the variable portion
of all nonhazardous discarded materials that is left over after all
diversion programs are utilized by the owners and/or occupants of
all premises in the city. The owners and/or occupants of all premises
within the city are provided with separate, designated containers
for MSW, recyclable materials, yard trimmings and food scraps ((with
the exception of non-food generating commercial and business establishments)
and construction and demolition debris (where applicable)). The owners
and occupants of all premises separate and place discarded materials
in the appropriate container provided to their premises.
The city provides special collection services and third parties
provide diversion programs for diversion of household appliances,
E-Waste, grease, fats, oils and other divertible materials. MSW is
the material placed by owners and/or occupants in the MSW container
and does not include materials placed in the other containers designated
for divertible materials or diverted via other diversion programs.
MSW does not include: (1) hazardous waste; (2) low-level radioactive
waste regulated under California
Health and Safety Code Sections 25800,
et seq.; or (3) untreated medical waste which is regulated pursuant
to the Medical Waste Management Act, California Health and Safety
Code Sections 25015, et seq.
"Person"
means any individual, firm, partnership, limited liability
company, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization,
corporation, estate, trust, receiver, syndicate, municipality, district
or other political subdivision or any group or combination acting
as a unit.
"Premises"
means any building, dwelling, or site in any zone within
the city from which any activity is conducted, including, without
limitation, residential, service, nonprofit, governmental, institutional,
educational, industrial, commercial or agricultural uses.
"Processing facilities"
means facilities where the following activities are conducted:
sorting, cleaning, treating, composting, and reconstituting collected
materials and returning these materials to the economic mainstream
in the form of raw materials for new, reused or reconstituted products
which meet the quality standards of the marketplace. Processing facilities
include clean materials recovery facility, composting facilities,
anaerobic digestion facilities, bioengineered feedstock facilities,
wastewater treatment plants, construction and demolition debris sorting
facilities, and concrete and asphalt grinding facilities. Processing
facilities do not include waste-to-energy, biomass, thermal destruction,
or any type of transformation facilities.
"Receptacles"
means any object designed and used to hold MSW and divertible
materials provided by commercial businesses for employee and customer
use.
"Recovered materials"
means those materials that are processed at a MRF, compost
facility, anaerobic digestion facility, bioengineered feedstock facility,
construction and demolition debris processing facility or any other
processing facility and thus diverted from landfill disposal.
"Recyclable materials"
means material which otherwise would become, or be treated
as, MSW but which, by means of a process of collecting, sorting, cleansing,
treating and reconstructing, may be returned to the economic mainstream
in the form of finished or source material for new, reused or reconstituted
products, which may be used in the marketplace. Recyclable materials
includes single-stream recyclable materials and single-material recyclables.
Recyclable materials includes, but is not limited to, paper, books,
magazines, cardboard, boxes, plastics, metals, glass, and other similar
materials authorized by the city for collection by the franchise.
Recyclable materials does not include food scraps, yard trimmings,
or construction and demolition debris.
"Recycle" or "recycling"
shall mean the process of collecting, transferring, sorting,
cleansing, treating, and reconstituting materials that would otherwise
become MSW, and returning them to the economic mainstream in the form
of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products that meet
the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace.
"Remote monitoring"
means the use of the internet of things (IoT) and/or wireless
electronic devices to visualize the contents of blue containers, green
containers, and gray containers for purposes of identifying the quantity
of materials in containers (level of fill) and/or presence of contamination.
"Residential premises" or "residential"
includes single-family dwellings, multifamily dwellings (such
as townhouses, apartments, and condominiums), gated developments,
HOA's and mobile home parks that are provided individual collection
service at each dwelling unit, whether by means of walk-in or curbside
collection, and which may be individually billed by contractor or
billed, as part of a central billing process, by the HOA or property
manager.
"Restaurant"
means an establishment primarily engaged in the retail sale
of food and drinks for on-premises or immediate consumption.
"Route review"
means a visual inspection of containers along a hauler's
collection route for the purpose of determining container contamination,
and may include mechanical inspection methods such as the use of cameras.
"SB 1383 regulations" or "SB 1383 regulatory"
means or refers to, for the purposes of this chapter, the
Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: Organic Waste Reduction regulations
developed by CALRecycle and adopted in 2020 that created 14
CCR, Division
7, Chapter 12 and amended portions of regulations of 14
CCR and 27
CCR.
"Scavenging"
means the unauthorized removal of MSW and/or divertible materials
from containers of the franchisee or city receptacles. Public Resources
Code Section 41950 prohibits the scavenging of paper, glass, cardboard,
plastic, used motor oil, ferrous metal, aluminum, or other divertible
materials from containers and or city receptacles.
"Scout service"
means moving individual containers of MSW, recyclable materials,
yard trimmings and/or food scraps to a centralized location on the
property where the containers can be emptied by a collection vehicle
(i.e. frontloader) and then returned to their original locations.
The containers are moved by a pickup truck, motorized utility cart
or other similar lightweight vehicle. Scout service is used to save
wear and tear on pavement in parking lots and driveways and to save
collection time. Instead of traveling to the location of each individual
container to empty the container, the collection vehicle (i.e. frontloader)
only travels to one centralized location where the scout brings the
full individual collection containers for pickup.
"Self-haul"
means the hauling of MSW and/or divertible materials to a
processing facility or disposal site or other type of facility by
a generator, owner, or occupant of any premises.
"Single-family"
means single-family residences, duplexes, tri-plexes, four-plexes
or any residences that have individual cart collection service.
"Single-material recyclables"
means those recyclable materials which satisfy each of the
following requirements: (1) have been segregated from MSW for handling
different from that of MSW by or for the generator thereof; (2) have
been further segregated so that various types of recyclable materials,
such as glass, metals, paper, cardboard, etc., are not commingled;
and (3) after such segregation, contain no more than ten percent contamination
by weight.
"Single stream recyclable materials" or "single stream recyclables"
means those recyclable materials collected as separated from
MSW by the generator and consisting of a mixture of metals, glass,
plastics #1-7, and all paper grades from single-family premises, commercial
business establishments and multifamily residential dwellings. Single
stream recyclable materials are distinguished from single-material
recyclables, which consist of only a single type of material, such
as glass, separated from other recyclables.
"Solid waste enterprise"
means any individual, joint venture, partnership, unincorporated
private organization or private corporation regularly engaged in the
business of providing solid waste handling services.
"Source reduction and recycling element (SRRE)"
means plans prepared by all jurisdictions in accordance with
Public Resources Code section 41000 et seq. The SRRE sets forth a
jurisdiction's basic strategy for management of MSW and divertible
materials generated within its borders, with emphasis on implementation
of source reduction, recycling, and composting programs source reduction,
recycling, and composting programs.
"Source separated"
means materials that have been separated or kept separate
from the MSW stream, at the point of generation, for the purpose of
additional sorting or processing those materials for recycling or
reuse in order to return them to the economic mainstream in the form
of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products, which
meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace,
or as otherwise defined in 14
CCR Section 17402.5(b)(4). For the purposes
of this chapter, source separated shall include separation of materials
by the generator, property owner, property owner's employee, property
manager, or property manager's employee into different container and/or
receptacles for the purpose of collection such that source separated
materials are separated from MSW for the purposes of collection and
processing.
"Special collection service"
means programs, offered by the city or the city's franchisee,
for the collection of universal waste, household hazardous waste,
electronic waste, bulky goods, holiday trees, and other diversion
programs.
"Supermarket "
means a full-line, self-service retail store with gross annual
sales of two million dollars or more, and which sells a line of dry
grocery, canned goods, or nonfood items and some perishable items.
"Transformation facility"
means a facility utilizing incineration, pyrolysis, distillation,
or biological conversion other than composting and does not include
composting, gasification, biomass conversion or "wet" or "dry" anaerobic
digestion.
"Temporary collection service"
means collection of occasional, non-continuing accumulations
of waste which is not generated from on-going activities or operations,
but which is either:
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C&D resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, demolition,
site preparation, or grading; or
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Other temporary MSW and/or divertible materials collection where
a container is provided for no more than thirty consecutive days,
or no more than sixty days in any ninety-day period.
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"Universal waste"
are any of the hazardous wastes that are listed in section
66261.9 of Article 1, Chapter 11, Division 4.5 of Title 22 of the
California Code of Regulations (22
CCR Section 66261.9), which includes
electronic devices, batteries, electric lamps, fluorescent tubes and
bulbs, high intensity discharge lamps, sodium vapor lamps and lamps
that contain added mercury, mercury-containing equipment, CRT, CRT
glass, and non-empty aerosol cans.
"Wastewater treatment plant"
means a municipal or privately owned wastewater treatment
Plant (also known as a "WWTP" or a "POTW") at which food scraps that
have been mixed with liquid to create a bioengineered feedstock, are
added to a digester to enhance production of methane or other biogas
to be used to create energy.
"Wholesale food vendor"
means a business or establishment engaged in the merchant
wholesale distribution of food, where food (including fruits and vegetables)
is received, shipped, stored, prepared for distribution to a retailer,
warehouse, distributor, or other destination.
"Wood"
means all non-hazardous wood material that is not painted
with lead-based or other paints containing materials identified as
hazardous waste or treated with creosote or other hazardous materials.
Wood includes, but not limited to, tree branches and other wood trimmings,
dimensional lumber and other pieces of wood generated during the manufacture
or processing of wood products, wood generated as part of the harvesting
or processing of raw woody crops, and the wood debris from construction
and demolition activities.
"Yard trimmings"
means tree and shrub trimmings, grass cuttings, leaves, branches,
and similar materials.
(Ord. 42 § 1, 1974; Ord. 1191 § 2, 2021)