Garbage shall be held to mean and include all accumulations of household waste matter which has been discarded as of no further value to owner thereof, including ashes, cinders, trade waste, lawn cuttings, grass, rags, bottles, papers, broken household furniture, small dead animals, boxes, barrels, shrubs, small trees, small limbs of trees, scraps of boards of lumber, hollow material or ware, rubbish in general, waste spray cartons or containers of insecticides or spray material, and every accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter that attends to the preparation, use, cooking, storage or handling of meat, fish, fowl, fruits or vegetables; but shall exclude earth, sand, gravel, building materials, building waste, trade waste occasioned by goods condemned in case lots or greater quantities, manure, night soil, sewage, large dead animals, automobile bodies, large trees, slaughterhouse waste, cleanings from public and private catch basins, fire refuse, swill and extraordinary waste not resulting from natural waste of ordinary daily living and of some material value to the owner, the same not being abandoned by him.
(§ 1 of Res. 142-A, June 14, 1943 at Vol. 272 page 280)