The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter and Chapter
8.34 of this code, shall be defined as follows:
"Bin"means a medium sized solid waste container between one cubic yards and six cubic yards.
"Blue container"has the same meaning as in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(5) and shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of source separated recyclable materials or source separated blue container organic waste.
"CalRecycle"means California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, which is the department designated with responsibility for developing, implementing, and enforcing SB 1383 regulations on the city (and others).
"City"means the city of Malibu.
"City employee"means an employee or authorized agent of the city of Malibu.
"City enforcement official"means the city manager or authorized designee(s) who is/are partially or wholly responsible for enforcing Chapter
8.34 of this code.
"Collection"means the operation of gathering together and/or transporting by means of a motor vehicle any classification of solid waste, including green container, blue container, and gray container wastes, within the city of Malibu.
"Collector"means any person who has been issued a franchise to provide solid waste and/or recyclable collection services in the city or who has been given the notice provided for in Public Resources Code Sections
49520 and
49521 and who has been issued a permit by the city to operate for the unexpired period of time set forth in such notice or any other extension thereof approved by the city. Collector shall include both commercial and residential collectors.
"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, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(6). A multifamily residential dwelling that consists of fewer than five units is not a commercial business for purposes of implementing Chapter
8.34.
"Commercial edible food generator"includes a tier one or a tier two commercial edible food generator as defined herein or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Sections
18982(a)(73) and
(a)(74). For the purposes of this definition, food recovery organizations and food recovery services are not commercial edible food generators pursuant to 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(7).
"Commercial/industrial business owner"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.
"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 onsite at any one time does not exceed 100 cubic yards and 750 square feet, as specified in 14 CCR Section
17855(a)(4); or as otherwise defined by 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(8).
"Compost"has the same meaning as in 14 CCR Section
17896.2(a)(4), which stated, as of the effective date of this definition, that "compost" means the product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition of organic solid wastes that are source separated from the municipal solid waste stream, or which are separated at a centralized facility.
"Construction and demolition waste" or "C&D"means any debris resulting from the construction, modification or demolition of any structure, roadway or property. "Construction and demolition waste" includes, but is not limited to, asphalt, concrete, drywall, metals, roofing materials, soils and wood.
"Container"means any vessel, tank, receptacle, dumpster, box or bin used or intended to be used for the purpose of holding solid waste for collection.
"Designee"means an entity that the city contracts with or otherwise arranges to carry out any of the city's responsibilities of this chapter or Chapter
8.34 of this code as authorized in 14 CCR Section
18981.2. A designee may be a government entity, a hauler, a private entity, or a combination of those entities.
"Disposal"means the complete operation of treating and/or disposing of solid waste, including organic waste and recyclable materials, after the collection thereof.
"Disposal form"means the document adopted by the city council which is used to determine the net amount of solid waste and/or recyclable materials disposed of in a permitted or certified facility.
"Disposal report"includes a disposal form or a copy of such form prepared by the collector or an officer or agent of the collector. Disposal reports shall also include necessary information to verify the report or supplied information.
"Edible food"means food intended for human consumption, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(18). For the purposes of Chapter
8.34 or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(18), "edible food" is not solid waste if it is recovered and not discarded. Nothing in this chapter, Chapter
8.34 or in
14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 requires or authorizes the recovery of edible food that does not meet the food safety requirements of the California Retail Food Code.
"Enforcement action"means an action of the city to address noncompliance with Chapter
8.34 of this code, including, but not limited to, issuing administrative citations, fines, penalties, or using other remedies.
"Excluded waste"means hazardous substance, hazardous waste, infectious waste, designated waste, volatile, corrosive, medical waste, infectious, regulated radioactive waste, and toxic substances or material that facility operator(s), which receive materials from the city and its generators, reasonably believe(s) would, as a result of or upon acceptance, transfer, processing, or disposal, be a violation of local, state, or federal law, regulation, or ordinance, including: land use restrictions or conditions, waste that cannot be disposed of in Class III landfills or accepted at the facility by permit conditions, waste that in the city's, or its designee's reasonable opinion would present a significant risk to human health or the environment, cause a nuisance or otherwise create or expose the city, or its designee, to potential liability; but not including de minimis volumes or concentrations of waste of a type and amount normally found in single-family or multifamily solid waste after implementation of programs for the safe collection, processing, recycling, treatment, and disposal of batteries and paint in compliance with Sections
41500 and
41802 of the California Public Resources Code. Excluded waste does not include used motor oil and filters, household batteries, universal wastes, and/or latex paint when such materials are defined as allowable materials for collection through the city's collection programs and the generator or customer has properly placed the materials for collection pursuant to instructions provided by the city or its designee for collection services.
"Food distributor"means a company that distributes food to entities, including, but not limited to, supermarkets and grocery stores, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(22).
"Food recovery"means actions to collect and distribute food for human consumption that otherwise would be disposed, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(24).
"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 or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(25), including, but not limited to:
1. A food bank as defined in Section
113783 of the Health and Safety Code;
2. A nonprofit charitable organization as defined in Section
113841 of the Health and Safety code; and
3. 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 or Chapter 8.34 and implementation of 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 pursuant to 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(7). |
If the definition in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(25) for food recovery organization differs from this definition, the definition in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(25) shall apply to this chapter and Chapter 8.34 of this code. |
"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, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(26). A food recovery service is not a commercial edible food generator for the purposes of this chapter and Chapter
8.34 of this code and implementation of
14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 pursuant to 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(7).
"Food scraps"means all food such as, but not limited to, fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, shellfish, bones, rice, beans, pasta, bread, cheese, and eggshells. Food scraps excludes fats, oils, and grease when such materials are source separated from other food scraps.
"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, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(27).
"Food-soiled paper"is compostable paper material that has come in contact with food or liquid, such as, but not limited to, compostable paper plates, paper coffee cups, napkins, pizza boxes, and milk cartons.
"Gray container"has the same meaning as in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(28) and shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of gray container waste.
"Gray container waste"means solid waste that is collected in a gray container that is part of a three-container organic waste collection service that prohibits the placement of organic waste in the gray container as specified in 14 CCR Sections
18984.1(a) and
(b), or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
17402(a)(6.5).
"Green container"has the same meaning as in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(29) and shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of source separated green container organic waste.
"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, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(30).
"Hauler route"means the designated itinerary or sequence of stops for each segment of the city's collection service area, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(31.5).
"Hazardous waste"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, toxicity, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may do either of the following: (1) cause or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or (2) 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 hereafter 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.
"High diversion organic waste 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 50% between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024, and 75% 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); or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(33).
"Industrial premises"means any property occupied or used for any purpose (other than residential or commercial uses) authorized or permitted in the industrial zones under the provisions of the Malibu zoning ordinance.
"Inspection"means a site visit where the city reviews records, containers, 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 and Chapter
8.34, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(35).
"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 2,000 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. If the definition in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(38) differs from this definition, the definition in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(38) shall control.
"Large venue"means a permanent venue facility that annually seats or serves an average of more than 2,000 individuals within the grounds of the facility per day of operation of the venue facility. For purposes of this chapter and Chapter
8.34 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 Chapter
8.34 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. If the definition in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(39) differs from this definition, the definition in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(39) shall control.
"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 solid waste, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(40).
"Lock bar"means a metal bar that can be installed on a bin that allows the lid to be locked to the bin with the use of a padlock.
"Manure"means the waste droppings from any animal not disposed of through sewers or on-site wastewater systems.
"Multifamily residential dwelling" or "multifamily"means, for purposes of implementing the SB 1383 regulations in Chapter
8.34, of, from, or pertaining to residential premises with five or more dwelling units. Multifamily premises do not include hotels, motels, or other transient occupancy facilities, which are considered commercial businesses.
"Non-compostable paper"includes, but is not limited to, paper that is coated in a plastic material that will not breakdown in the composting process, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(41).
"Non-organic recyclables"means non-putrescible and non-hazardous recyclable wastes, including, but not limited to, bottles, cans, metals, plastics and glass, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(43).
"Notice of violation (NOV)"means a notice that a violation has occurred that includes a compliance date to avoid an action to seek penalties, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(45) or further explained in 14 CCR Section
18995.4.
"Officer"means the president, vice-president, treasurer or other duly designated representative of a collector.
"Organic waste"means solid wastes containing material originated from living organisms and their metabolic waste products, including, but not limited to, food, green material, landscape and pruning waste, organic textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products, printing and writing paper, manure, biosolids, digestate, and sludges or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(46). Biosolids and digestate are as defined by 14 CCR Section
18982(a).
"Padlock"means a lock that can be locked and unlocked with a combination code or control key.
"Paper products"include, but are not limited to, paper janitorial supplies, cartons, wrapping, packaging, file folders, hanging files, corrugated boxes, tissue, and toweling, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(51).
"Permittee"means a solid waste collector who has obtained a permit to collect, transport and remove solid waste, organic waste and/or recyclable materials from the boundaries of the city of Malibu.
"Person"includes, without limitation, any individual, firm, co-partnership, general partnership, limited partnership, joint venture, association, entity, corporation, or any other group or combination thereof acting as a unit.
"Printing and writing papers"include, but are not limited to, copy, xerographic, watermark, cotton fiber, offset, forms, computer printout paper, white wove envelopes, manila envelopes, book paper, note pads, writing tablets, newsprint, and other uncoated writing papers, posters, index cards, calendars, brochures, reports, magazines, and publications, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(54).
"Prohibited container contaminants"means the following:
1. Discarded materials placed in the blue container that are not identified as acceptable source separated recyclable materials for the city's blue container;
2. Discarded materials placed in the green container that are not identified as acceptable source separated green container organic waste for the city's green container;
3. Discarded materials placed in the gray container that are acceptable source separated recyclable materials and/or source separated green container organic wastes to be placed in city's green container and/or blue container; and
4. Excluded waste placed in any container.
"Recycling"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.
"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 prohibited container contaminants.
"Residential householder"means any person holding and occupying residential premises, whether or not the owner, singly or with his or her family, within the territorial limits of the city.
"Residential premises"means any residential property in the city, except any multiple dwelling containing five or more dwelling units.
"Restaurant"means an establishment primarily engaged in the retail sale of food and drinks for onpremises or immediate consumption, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(64).
"Route review"means a visual inspection of containers along a hauler route for the purpose of determining container contamination, and may include mechanical inspection methods such as the use of cameras, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(65).
"SB 1383"means Senate Bill 1383 of 2016 approved by the Governor on September 19, 2016, which added Sections 39730.5, 39730.6, 39730.7, and 39730.8 to the
Health and Safety Code, and added Chapter 13.1 (commencing with Section 42652) to Part
3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, establishing methane emissions reduction targets in a statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants as amended, supplemented, superseded, and replaced from time to time.
"SB 1383 Regulations" or "SB 1383 Regulatory"means or refers to, for the purposes of this chapter and Chapter
8.34, 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.
"Self-hauler"means a person, who hauls solid waste, organic waste or recyclable material he or she has generated to another person. 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).
"Single-family"means, for purposes of implementing the SB 1383 regulations in Chapter
8.34, of, from, or pertaining to any residential premises with fewer than five units.
"Solid waste"has the same meaning as defined in State Public Resources Code Section
40191, which defines solid waste as all putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semi-solid, and liquid wastes, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, dewatered, treated, or chemically fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous waste, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semi-solid wastes, and other discarded solid and semi-solid wastes, with the exception that solid waste does not include any of the following wastes:
1. Hazardous waste, as defined in the State Public Resources Code Section
40141.
2. Radioactive waste regulated pursuant to the State Radiation Control Law (Chapter 8 (commencing with Section
114960) of Part 9 of Division 104 of the State Health and Safety Code).
3. Medical waste regulated pursuant to the State Medical Waste Management Act (Part 14 (commencing with Section
117600) of Division 104 of the State Health and Safety Code). Untreated medical waste shall not be disposed of in a solid waste landfill, as defined in State Public Resources Code Section
40195.1. Medical waste that has been treated and deemed to be solid waste shall be regulated pursuant to Division
30 of the State Public Resources Code.
"Solid waste enterprise"means any individual, partnership, joint venture, unincorporated private organization, or private corporation regularly engaged in the business of providing solid waste handling services.
"Source separated"means materials, including commingled recyclable materials, that have been separated or kept separate from the solid waste 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 and Chapter
8.34, 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 containers for the purpose of collection such that source separated materials are separated from gray container waste or other solid waste for the purposes of collection and processing.
"Source separated blue container organic waste"means source separated organic wastes that can be placed in a blue container that is limited to the collection of those organic wastes and non-organic recyclables as defined in Section 18982(a)(43), or as otherwise defined by Section 17402(a)(18.7).
"Source separated green container organic waste"means source separated organic waste that can be placed in a green container that is specifically intended for the separate collection of organic waste by the generator, excluding source separated blue container organic waste, carpets, non-compostable paper, and textiles.
"State"means the state of California.
"Supermarket"means a full-line, self-service retail store with gross annual sales of two million dollars ($2,000,000.00), or more, and which sells a line of dry grocery, canned goods, or nonfood items and some perishable items, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(71).
"Temporary bin/roll-off drop box"means a container provided by a collector and used for a temporary period of time for the disposal of solid waste or construction or demolition waste or other waste not generated on a regular or continuing basis.
"Tier two commercial edible food generator"means a commercial edible food generator that is one of the following:
1. Restaurant with 250 or more seats, or a total facility size equal to or greater than 5,000 square feet.
2. Hotel with an onsite food facility and 200 or more rooms.
3. Health facility with an onsite food facility and 100 or more beds.
6. A state agency with a cafeteria with 250 or more seats or total cafeteria facility size equal to or greater than 5,000 square feet.
7. A local education agency facility with an on-site food facility.
"Transportation"means the process of moving solid waste through the city by means of a motor vehicle.
"Weight tickets/invoices"means receipts provided by a solid waste or recycling facility reflecting the net amount of solid waste disposed of by a collector at the correlating facility.
"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, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section
18982(a)(76).
(Prior code § 5201; Ord. 87 § 1, 1993; Ord. 128 § 2, 1995; Ord. 262 § 2, 2004; Ord. 462 § 3, 2020; Ord. 489 § 1, 2021)