1. “Asbestos-containing material”
means any material containing at least one percent asbestos as determined using the method specified in Appendix A of Subpart F in 40 CFR Part 763, Section 1, unless it can be demonstrated that the material does not release asbestos fibers when crumbled, pulverized or otherwise disturbed.
2. “Authorized collection company”
means the person(s) authorized by contract with the city, or by state law for wastes not included in such a contract, to collect garbage within the city consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
3. “Bulky items”
include and are illustrated by such articles for household use as furniture, mattresses, box springs, television sets, stereos, and wardrobes not exceeding eight feet in length. Bulky items not used in households are not included, such as motor vehicles or hulks; car parts and tires; commercial machinery or equipment; lumber and building materials; or hazardous wastes.
4. “Cart”
means a city contractor-provided 20-, 32-, 45-, 64- or 96-gallon wheeled cart suitable for household collection, storage and curbside placement of garbage, recyclable materials or yard debris.
5. “CFCs” or “chlorofluorocarbons”
means a compound consisting of chlorine, fluorine, and carbon, also known as fluorochlorocarbon (FCC).
7. “City manager”
means the city manager of the city of Shoreline or designee.
8. “City’s waste”
means all residential and nonresidential garbage generated within the city, excluding unacceptable waste, hazardous waste, special waste, and materials intended for recycling.
9. “Compostables”
means yard debris, including food scraps, separately or combined.
10. “Composting”
means the controlled degradation of organic waste yielding a product for use as a soil conditioner.
11. “Construction, demolition and land clearing waste (CDL waste)”a. b. c.
means waste comprised primarily of the following materials:
“Construction waste”
means waste from construction of buildings, roads, or other structures. This may include, but is not limited to, scraps of wood, concrete, masonry, roofing, siding, structural metal, wire, fiberglass insulation, other building materials, plastics, Styrofoam, twine, baling and strapping materials, cans and buckets, and other packaging materials and containers.
“Demolition waste”
means garbage, largely inert waste, resulting from the demolition or razing of buildings, roads and other manufactured structures. “Demolition waste” consists of, but is not limited to, concrete, brick, bituminous concrete, wood and masonry, composition roofing and roofing paper, steel, and minor amounts of metals like copper. Plaster (i.e., Sheetrock or plasterboard) or any other material, other than wood, that is likely to produce gases or leachate during its decomposition process and asbestos containing materials are not considered to be demolition waste.
“Land clearing waste”
means natural vegetation and mineral from clearing and grubbing land for development, such as stumps, brush, blackberry vines, tree branches, tree bark, mud, dirt, sod and rocks.
12. “Contaminated soils”
means soils removed during the cleanup of a remedial action site, or a hazardous waste site closure or other cleanup efforts and actions, which contain contaminants, but not at levels to qualify as hazardous waste. “Contaminated soils” may include excavated soils surrounding underground storage tanks, vactor wastes (street and sewer cleanings), and soil excavated from property underlying industrial activities.
13. “County”
means King County, a political subdivision of the state of Washington, its successors or assigns.
14. “Curb” or “curbside”
means the area on the customer’s property and within five feet of the public street within which garbage, recyclables, and yard waste must be left for collection without blocking sidewalks, driveways, or on-street parking. If extraordinary circumstances preclude such a location for purposes of the collection of garbage, recyclable materials and yard waste, curbside shall mean an alternate location suitable to the customers, convenient to the authorized collection company’s equipment, and mutually agreed to by the parties.
15. “Customer”
means resident, property owner, tenant, or business owner that is a customer of the authorized collection company.
16. “Detachable container”
means a water-tight metal or plastic container, not less than one cubic yard in capacity nor greater than eight cubic yards in capacity, equipped with a tight-fitting metal, plastic, or other city-approved cover, and capable of being mechanically unloaded into a collection vehicle. The term shall also apply to containers of other material of similar size when approved by the city manager.
17. “Disposal site”
means the areas or facilities where any final treatment, utilization, processing or deposition of garbage occurs. See also the definition of “interim garbage handling site.”
18. “Drop-box container”
means an all-metal container with 10 cubic yards or more capacity that is loaded onto a specialized collection vehicle, transported to a disposal or recycling site, emptied and transported back to customer’s site.
19. “Fee schedule”
means the impact fee rates and charges established by resolution of the city council pursuant to Chapter 3.01 SMC.
20. “Garbage”
means all biodegradable and nonbiodegradable solid and semisolid wastes, including but not limited to refuse (except for abandoned and disabled vehicles), yard debris, cold and bagged ashes, industrial wastes, swill, CDL wastes, and recyclable materials. The term “garbage” shall not include hazardous wastes (except sharps generated for personal use such as syringes, needles, and lancets, when contained in a city-approved container), infectious wastes, special category wastes, and special wastes.
21. “Garbage receptacle”
includes detachable container, micro-can, and garbage cart, which are rodent and insect proof. This may also include other forms of storage appropriate to the material in question that prevent seepage, contamination of soil, or surface or ground water, spreading due to animal or insect activity or weather conditions, odor, or any risk to public health or safety.
22. “Hazardous waste”a. b.
means any waste, material or substance that is:
Defined as hazardous by 40 CFR Part 261 and regulated as hazardous waste by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976, 42 USC 6901 et seq., as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) of 1984; the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 USC 2601 et seq.; or any other federal statute or regulation governing the treatment, storage, handling or disposal of waste imposing special handling or disposal requirements similar to those required by Subtitle C or RCRA; and/or
Defined as dangerous or extremely hazardous by Chapter 173-303 WAC and regulated as dangerous waste or extremely hazardous waste by the Washington State Department of Ecology under the State Hazardous Waste Management Act, Chapter 70.105 RCW, or any other Washington State statute or regulation governing the treatment, storage, handling or disposal of wastes and imposing special handling requirements similar to those required by Chapter 70.105 RCW.
23. “Health officer”
means the director of the King County department of public health or their designated representative.
24. “Household hazardous wastes”
means any discarded liquid, solid, contained gas, or sludge, including any material, substance, product, commodity or waste used or generated in the household, regardless of quantity, that exhibits any of the characteristics or criteria of hazardous waste set forth in Chapter 173-303 WAC, but is exempt according to federal, state, and county regulations. Specific household hazardous wastes which are prohibited from disposal as city waste include infectious wastes and sharps/syringes; nonedible oils; flammable liquids and solids including fuels, solvents, paint thinners, and degreasers; pesticides, including herbicides, insecticides and wood preservatives; fluorescent light bulbs; televisions; computers, monitors and laptops; cellular phones; appliances with CFCs; corrosive materials; PCB capacitors and ballasts; mercury (such as thermometers and mercury switches); vehicle batteries; hobby chemicals and artists’ paints; liquid paints; and any other material restricted by federal, state, and county regulations; provided, however, empty containers for house-hold hazardous products may be disposed of as garbage.
25. “Interim garbage handling site”
means any garbage collection site that is not the final site of disposal. Community cleanup and yard waste collection event locations are considered interim garbage handling sites.
26. “Large household appliances”
includes appliances over one cubic foot in size but is not limited to refrigerators, iceboxes, stoves, washing machines, dryers, dishwashing machines, water heaters and air conditioners.
27. “Litter”
means garbage in the amount of one cubic foot or less which does not contain hazardous waste and is not an immediate threat to the health or safety of the public.
28. “Micro-can”
means a 10-gallon container made of plastic and supplied by the city’s solid waste provider.
29. “Mixed paper”
means magazines, junk mail, phone books, bond or ledger grade paper, cardboard, paperboard packaging and other fiber-based materials meeting industry standards. Paper packaging combined with plastic wax or foil, tissue paper, paper towels and food-contaminated paper are excluded from the definition of “mixed paper.”
30. “Person”
means any governmental entity, or any public or private corporation, partnership or other form of association, as well as any individual.
31. “Planting strip”
means that part of a street right-of-way between the abutting property line and the curb or traveled portion of the street, exclusive of any sidewalk.
32. “Public place”
means all public property including, but not limited to, streets, avenues, ways, boulevards, drives, places, alleys, sidewalks and planting (parking) strips, squares, triangles, parks, and rights-of-way, whether open to the use of the public or not, and the space above or beneath the surface of the same.
33. “Recycling”
means transforming or remanufacturing waste material into usable or marketable materials for the use other than incineration or other methods of disposal.
34. “Recyclable materials”
means aluminum and tin cans, corrugated cardboard, glass containers, mixed paper, newspaper, recyclable plastic containers that have contained non-hazardous products, plastic films, polycoated cartons, and scrap metals. The term “recyclable materials” shall include motor oil and fluorescent bulbs that are properly packaged, set out for collection separately and not commingled with other recyclable materials.
35. “Refuse”
includes, but is not limited to, all abandoned and disabled vehicles, all appliances or parts thereof, vehicle parts, broken or discarded furniture, mattresses, carpeting, all old iron or other scrap metal, glass, paper, wire, plastic, boxes, old lumber, old wood, and all other waste or discarded material.
36. “Residential property”
for the purpose of this chapter means a single-family dwelling, a mobile home, or a multifamily residence containing no more than four dwelling units such as duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes located on a public or private road.
37. “Small quantity generator hazardous waste”
means any discarded liquid, solid, contained gas, or sludge, including any material substance, product, commodity or waste used or generated by businesses, that exhibits any of the characteristics or criteria of dangerous waste set forth in Chapter 173-303 WAC, but which is exempt from regulations as dangerous waste.
38. “Solid waste collection services”
means the collection by the city’s authorized collection company of all garbage, waste, recyclable materials, and compostables.
39. “Special category wastes”
means wastes whose disposal is limited by certain restrictions and limitations, as identified in SMC § 13.14.170.
40. “Special waste”
means contaminated soils, asbestos, and/or other wastes that the county requires a waste clearance decision prior to acceptance.
42. “Unacceptable waste”
means all waste not authorized for disposal at the landfill or transfer station designated by the city, by those governmental entities having jurisdiction, or any waste the disposal of which would constitute a violation of any governmental requirement pertaining to the environment, health, or safety. “Unacceptable waste” includes any waste that is now or hereafter defined by federal or state law as radioactive, dangerous, hazardous or extremely hazardous waste.
43. “Waste”
means hazardous waste, household hazardous waste, small quantity generator hazardous waste, special category waste, special waste and unacceptable waste.
44. “Yard debris”
means plant material (such as leaves, grass clippings, branches, brush, flowers, roots, wood waste, unflocked holiday trees) and debris commonly removed in the course of maintaining yards and gardens that do not exceed four inches in diameter and four feet in length. Bundles of debris shall not exceed two feet by two feet by four feet in dimension and shall be secured by degradable string or twine, not nylon or synthetic materials. Food scraps and compostable paper may be disposed of as yard debris. This term excludes rocks and loose soils; plastics and synthetic fibers; lumber; human or animal excrement; and soil contaminated with hazardous waste.
(Ord. 251 § 1, 2000; Ord. 415 § 1, 2006; Ord. 519 § 2, 2008; Ord. 747 § 1 (Exh. A), 2016; Ord. 920 § 2 (Exh. B), 2021)