A. "Applicant" "Building Official" "Bulky goods" "City Manager" "Collection" "Collector" "Commercial/industrial business owner" "Commercial/industrial collector" "Commercial/industrial premises" "Construction" "Construction or demolition waste" ("C&D") "Construction site or demolition site" "Conversion rate" "Covered project" "Deconstruction" "Demolition" "Disposal" "Diversion requirement" "Divert" "Exclusive solid waste handling services" "Green waste" or "yard waste" "Hazardous waste" "Holiday"
"In the City" or "within the City" "Manure" "Noncovered project" "Person" "Processing" "Public agency" "Recyclables" "Recycling" "Recycling container" "Renovation" "Residential collector" "Residential householder" "Residential owner" "Residential premises" "Resource recovery" "Reuse" "Salvage" "Self-hauler" "Solid waste" "Solid waste container" "Solid waste enterprise" "Solid waste handling services" "Standard commercial/industrial solid waste container" "Standard residential solid waste container" "Waste management plan" "WMP Compliance Official"
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
means any person who applies to the City for the applicable permits to undertake any covered project.
means the chief building official of the City.
means oversized or overweight household articles placed curbside by a residential householder or owner, which oversized or overweight household articles have weights, volumes or dimensions which cannot be accommodated by solid waste containers for residential premises, such as stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, washing machines, furniture, sofas, mattresses, box springs and large rugs.
means the City Manager of the City of Norwalk or the City Manager's designee.
means the operation of gathering together within the City, and transporting by means of a motor vehicle to the point of disposal or processing, any solid waste or recyclables.
means any person: (a) who has been awarded an exclusive contract to provide residential or commercial/industrial solid waste or recyclables collection services in the City; or (b) who has been issued a permit or nonexclusive contract to provide solid waste handling services to State facilities.
means any person, firm, corporation or other enterprise or organization holding or occupying, alone or with others, commercial/industrial premises, whether or not it is the holder of the title or the owner of record of the commercial/industrial premises.
means a collector which collects solid waste and recyclables from commercial/industrial premises.
means all occupied real property in the City, except property occupied by Federal, State or local governmental agencies which do not consent to their inclusion, and except residential premises as defined in this section, and shall include, without limitation, wholesale and retail establishments, restaurants and other food establishments, bars, stores, shops, offices, industrial establishments, manufacturing establishments, service stations, repair, research and development establishments, professional, services, sports or recreational facilities, construction and demolition sites, a multiple dwelling containing five or more dwelling units, and any other commercial or industrial business facilities, structures, sites or establishments in the City.
means the building of any facility or structure or any portion thereof including any tenant improvements to an existing facility or structure.
means any solid waste, materials or debris used, discarded or generated as the result of construction, renovation, remodeling, repair or demolition operations, including without limitation, discarded packaging or containers and waste construction materials, whether brought on site for fabrication or used in construction or resulting from demolition, excluding liquid waste and hazardous waste.
means any real property in the City in, on or from which a building or structure is being fabricated, assembled, erected or demolished, and which produces construction or demolition solid waste which must be removed from the property, and requires the use of commercial refuse containers.
means the rate set forth in the standardized conversion rate table approved by the City pursuant to this article for use in estimating the volume or weight of materials identified in a waste management plan.
is any new construction, or addition, alteration, demolition, or renovation project within the City, including where the addition or alteration increases the building's conditioned area, volume, or size, and all projects subject to California Green Building Standards Code Sections 4.408.1 and 5.408.1. Covered project also includes all City-sponsored construction, demolition and renovation projects whose total costs are equal to or greater than $25,000. Covered projects are also defined as any stand-alone roofing project for which tear-off of the existing roof is required.
means to disassemble any facility, structure, or building, whether in whole or in part, whether interior or exterior, piece by piece in order to salvage the parts.
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.
means the complete operation of treating and disposing of solid waste after collection.
means the diversion of at least 50% of the total construction and demolition debris generated by a project via reuse or recycling, unless the applicant has been granted an exemption pursuant to Section 8.48.640, in which case the diversion requirement shall be the maximum feasible diversion rate established by the WMP Compliance Official for the project.
means to use material for any purpose other than disposal in a landfill or transformation facility.
means any action by the City Council, whether by franchise, contract, license, permit, or otherwise, whereby the City itself, or one or more other local agencies or solid waste enterprises, has the exclusive right to provide solid waste handling services of any class or type within all or any part of the territory of the City.
means leaves, grass clippings, brush, branches and other forms of organic materials generated from landscapes or gardens, separated from other solid waste. "Green waste" or "yard waste" does not include stumps or branches exceeding four inches in diameter or four feet in length.
means and includes waste defined as hazardous by Public Resources Code Section 40141 as it now exists or may subsequently be amended; namely, a waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may do either of the following: (a) cause or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; (b) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed of or otherwise managed. "Hazardous waste" includes extremely hazardous waste and acutely hazardous waste, and any other waste as may from time to time be designated as hazardous by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or other agency of the United States Government, or by the California Legislature or any agency of the State of California empowered by law to classify or designate waste as hazardous, extremely hazardous or acutely hazardous.
means: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
"Holiday" also means any other day designated as such in a contract between a collector and the labor union serving as the exclusive representative of that collector's employees; provided, the holiday is established or recognized by resolution of the City Council. |
means within the limits of the City as such limits exist on the effective date of this chapter or may thereafter exist by virtue of the annexation of territory to or detachment of territory from the limits of the City.
means the waste droppings from any animal.
means any construction, demolition, or renovation project within the City that is not a covered project.
means any individual, association, firm, partnership, corporation, or any other group or combination acting as a unit.
means the reduction, separation, recovery and conversion of solid waste.
means any governmental agency or department, whether Federal, State or local.
means the following materials generated on or emanating from residential or commercial/industrial premises and no longer useful or wanted thereon: glass bottles and jars—any food or beverage container (excluding ceramics and chemical containers); aluminum—cans, foil, pie tins and similar items (excluding dirt or organic material); steel or bimetal cans not to exceed one gallon size; PET—plastic soda bottles or other bottles with the designated "PET" symbol; HDPE—plastic milk and water bottles with the designated "HDPE" symbol (excluding detergent or bleach bottles and other plastic products); newspaper; cardboard—separated and not having waxed surfaces; computer printout (excluding carbon); white ledger— white bondpaper, office paper, white envelopes (excluding coated paper); and such additional materials as the City Council may designate from time to time.
means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating and reconstituting materials that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning 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. "Recycling" does not include transformation as defined in Public Resources Code Section 40201.
means a container which is provided to residential premises for use in collecting and moving recyclables to curbside for collection by the collector, or a container which is provided to commercial/industrial premises for use by the collector in collecting and moving recyclables.
means any change, addition, or modification to an existing structure.
means a collector which collects solid waste and recyclables from residential premises.
means any person or persons holding or occupying residential premises in the City, whether or not the owner of the residential premises.
means the owner of any residential premises within the City.
means any residential dwelling unit within the City, including, without limitation, multiple unit residential complexes, such as rental housing projects, condominiums, apartment houses, mixed condominiums and rental housing, and mobilehome parks, except any multiple dwelling containing five or more dwelling units.
means any use of solid waste collected pursuant to this chapter, except for landfill disposal or transfer for landfill disposal. "Resource recovery" includes, but is not limited to, transformation, composting and multimaterial recycling.
means further or repeated use of construction or demolition debris.
means the controlled removal of construction or demolition debris from a permitted building or demolition site for the purpose of recycling, reuse, or storage for later recycling or reuse.
means a person, single-family resident, or company who hauls their own organics, recyclables and waste to a facility operation, activity, or property that processes or recovers the waste, rather than using a collection service provided by another hauler. Self-hauler also includes a person who back-hauls waste, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(66). Back-haul means generating and transporting organic waste to a destination owned and operated by the generator using the generator's own employees and equipment, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(66)(A).
To qualify, the person, single-family resident or company must haul only waste they generated themselves. They must also separate generated organic waste from non-organic waste on site and haul the organic waste to a solid waste facility operation, activity, or property that processes or recovers the waste. Businesses that self-haul their organic waste must keep a record of the amount of organic waste delivered to each solid waste facility or activity that recovers it.
means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes, generated in or upon, related to the occupancy of, remaining in or emanating from residential premises or commercial/industrial premises, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid or semisolid wastes, and other solid and semisolid wastes, as defined in Public Resources Code Section 49503, excluding liquid wastes and abandoned vehicles; provided, however, that "solid waste" shall not include hazardous waste.
means any vessel, tank, receptacle, box or bin permitted to be used for the purpose of holding solid waste for collection.
means any individual, partnership, joint venture, unincorporated private organization or private corporation regularly engaged in the business of providing solid waste handling services.
means the collection, transportation, storage, transfer, or processing of solid wastes for residential or commercial/industrial users or customers.
means a bin or solid waste container used in connection with commercial/industrial premises with a two, three, four, six or eight cubic yard capacity, designed for mechanical pick-up by collection vehicles and equipped with a lid, or where appropriate for the commercial/industrial premises being served, a 15, 25, 30, 40 or 50 cubic yard roll-off box or compactor, and includes other types of containers suitable for the storage and collection of commercial/industrial solid waste if approved in writing by the City Manager.
means a standardized container, made of metal, hard rubber or plastic of a design, color and durability as approved by the City Manager.
means a completed WMP form, approved by the City for the purpose of compliance with this chapter, submitted by the applicant for any covered project.
means the Recycling Coordinator or staff person(s) authorized and responsible for implementing this chapter.
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Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to preclude the City and any solid waste enterprise from incorporating into any agreement for exclusive solid waste handling, services definitions relating to their respective contractual rights and obligations which may differ from or augment those set forth in this section.
(Prior code § 14-3.1; Ord. 1450 § 1, 1996; Ord. 1483 § 1, 1998; Ord. 1544 § 1, 2004; Ord. 05-1556 § 1; Ord. 16-1687 § 1; Ord. 21-1722 § 2; Ord. 25-1759, 9/16/2025)