are wastes resulting from the production of farm or agricultural products, including manures, wherever produced.
(Ord. 839 § 3.1, 1972)
means any building which contains five residential units or more within the same structure or on the same lot or parcel.
(Ord. 2808 § 5, 2013)
is the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke or other combustible materials.
(Ord. 839 § 3.1, 1972)
is large items of refuse, such as appliances, furniture, trees and stumps, and other oversize wastes.
(Ord. 839 § 3.3, 1972)
is any agency, business or service operated by a person, or a private or municipal corporation for the collecting of solid waste.
(Ord. 839 § 3.4, 1972)
means the person entering into a contract with the city for the collection, removal and disposal of solid waste and special wastes as provided by this chapter.
(Ord. 839 § 3.5, 1972)
is the controlled microbial degradation of organic waste, yielding a nuisance-free product.
(Ord. 839 § 3.6, 1972)
is a partially mechanized self-service refuse storage container for individual or bulk use, utilizing special equipment for emptying or transporting to the disposal site.
(Ord. 839 § 3.9, 1972)
is a wet-strength kraft paper or a polyethylene discardable container that is freestanding, affixed to a wall, or mounted on or in special racks or boxes with a capacity of ten or thirty-five gallons.
(Ord. 839 § 3.8, 1972)
is a durable, corrosion-resistant, rodent-resistant, easily cleanable container with a tight-fitting lid equipped with suitable handles with a capacity not to exceed one hundred five gallons. Any container in excess of thirty-two gallons shall be supplied by the collector so as to insure it is compatible with collection equipment.
(Ord. 839 § 3.7, 1972; Ord. 2111 § 2 (part), 1999)
is the location where any final treatment, utilization, processing or disposition of solid waste occurs. (Revised Code of Washington, Section 70.95.030.) This includes, but is not limited to: Sanitary landfills, incineration, composting, dumps, and grinding, transfer stations, salvage and reclamation sites, hog feeding.
(Ord. 839 § 3.10, 1972)
is all putrescible material including animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food; swill and carcasses of dead animals, except; sewage, sewage sludge, and human body wastes.
(Ord. 839 § 3.11, 1972)
include, but are not limited to, explosives, pathological wastes, radioactive wastes, and chemicals which are harmful to the public health or the environment.
(Ord. 839 § 3.12, 1972)
(Ord. 839 § 3.13, 1972)
is the controlled combustion of solid waste, that yields satisfactory nonputrescible residues and air effluents.
(Ord. 839 § 3.15, 1972)
is a furnace and associated building designed to burn solid wastes under controlled conditions, of more than fifty pounds per hour capacity.
(Ord. 839 § 3.14, 1972)
are waste by-products at manufacturing operations.
(Ord. 839 § 3.16, 1972)
is inactive or neutral solid waste.
(Ord. 839 § 3.17, 1972)
means city, county, city-county or district health department, or its duly authorized representative. (Revised Code of Washington, Section 70.95.030.)
(Ord. 839 § 3.18, 1972)
is water that has passed through a landfill or an accumulation of solid waste, containing dissolved and suspended and/or microbial contaminants.
(Ord. 839 § 3.19, 1972)
is paper, plastic, cardboard, and other wastes which may be wind-transported.
(Ord. 839 § 3.20, 1972)
is solid waste that is scattered in a careless manner.
(Ord. 839 § 3.21, 1972)
means the uncontrolled and unauthorized deposit of solid waste which creates an aesthetic or public health nuisance.
(Ord. 839 § 3.22, 1972)
is a specialized storage container for nonputrescible litter approved under the litter control act. (Revised Code of Washington, Section 70.93.)
(Ord. 839 § 3.23, 1972)
means a plot of ground divided into spaces, under the ownership or management of one person, firm, or corporation for the purpose of locating two or more mobile homes or manufactured homes for dwelling purposes.
(Ord. 2808 § 4, 2013)
consists in unlawfully doing an act, or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission either annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others, offends decency or unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct, any lake or navigable river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway; or in any way renders other persons insecure in life, or in the use of property. (Revised Code of Washington, Section 7.48.120.)
(Ord. 839 § 3.24, 1972)
is the burning of solid wastes in an open area or pile, or in a barrel or furnace with inadequate controls, which yields an unsatisfactory residue and an unsatisfactory air effluent.
(Ord. 839 § 3.25, 1972)
is an individual, firm, association, co-partnership, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, public or private corporation, or any other entity whatsoever. (Revised Code of Washington, Section 70.95.030.)
(Ord. 839 § 3.26, 1972)
are bulky wastes, dead animals, abandoned vehicles, construction and demolition wastes, industrial wastes, manure, fly ash and such other solid wastes that may take special handling.
(Ord. 839 § 3.27, 1972)
is a tract or parcel of land with or without habitable buildings.
(Ord. 839 § 3.28, 1972)
is the operation of solid waste handling that converts it into a useful product.
(Ord. 839 § 3.29, 1972)
is the disposal process in which there is hand or mechanical segregation of solid waste for sale and reuse, including salvage.
(Ord. 839 § 3.30, 1972)
is a location used for the processing or the storage of reclaimed material.
(Ord. 839 § 3.31, 1972)
is a method of disposing of solid waste on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or safety, by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste 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 such more frequent intervals as may be necessary.
(Ord. 839 § 3.32, 1972)
means the controlled removal of material for reuse.
(Ord. 839 § 3.33, 1972)
means a site used for the processing or the storage of salvaged material.
(Ord. 839 § 3.34, 1972)
is the uncontrolled removal of materials at a disposal site or transfer station.
(Ord. 839 § 3.35, 1972)
is anything solid, semi-solid, liquid, or a container of a liquid, that is unused, unproductive, or not properly utilized, or any one of the foregoing, or a combination of any of the foregoing. "Properly" means justifiable, appropriately.
(Ord. 839 § 3.36, 1972; Ord. 1443 § 1, 1989)
means the storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing and final disposal of solid wastes. (Revised Code of Washington, Section 70.95.030.)
(Ord. 839 § 3.37, 1972)
means special, infectious, or dangerous solid wastes requiring special handling including, but not limited to, medical wastes, explosives, radioactive materials, chemicals, herbicides and pesticides, and their containers.
(Ord. 839 § 3.38, 1972)
is a fixed, supplemental, collection/transportation/disposal facility, used by persons and route collection vehicles to deposit solid wastes into a larger transfer vehicle for transport to the disposal site. This does not include a detachable container used for consolidation of the solid wastes from individuals in rural or small-town populations.
(Ord. 839 § 3.39, 1972)
is a living animal, insect or other arthropod which transmits an infectious disease from one animal or person to another.
(Ord. 839 § 3.40, 1972)