A. “Cart” or “Tote” refers to containers of ninety-six-gallon capacity or less, provided by the city or its designated contractor for collection, storage, and curbside placement of solid waste materials.

B. “Commercial building or customer” means all non-residential customers.

C. “Dwelling unit” means one room or rooms connected together, constituting a separate, independent housekeeping establishment for owner/occupancy, or rental or lease on a weekly, monthly, or longer basis, and physically separated from any other dwelling units, which may be in the same structure, and containing independent cooking and sleeping facilities.

D. “Food Scraps” means all compostable pre- and post-consumer food waste, and food-soiled paper, and other accepted paper products.

E. “Hazardous waste” includes any hazardous, toxic, or dangerous waste, substance, or material, or contaminant, pollutant, or chemical, known or unknown, defined or identified as such in any existing or future local, state, or federal law, statute, code, ordinance, rule, regulation, guideline, decree, or order relating to human health or the environment or environmental conditions.

F. “Industrial refuse” includes solid waste materials from factories, processing plants or other manufacturing enterprises. The words include putrescible garbage from food processing plant, condemned foods, and miscellaneous building and manufacturing refuse.

G. “Multifamily Complex” means any multiple-unit residence with multiple attached or unattached units billed collectively for solid waste service.

H. “Organics” includes yard debris and food scraps, separately or combined.

I. “Persons” includes individuals, partnerships, corporations and associations.

J. “Recyclable materials” means waste materials capable of reuse from a waste stream as designated by the public works department, including, but not limited to, sorted or unsorted newsprint, glass, aluminum, ferrous and nonferrous cans, plastic materials, mixed paper, and cardboard accumulated and intended for recycling or reuse and collection by the public works department or authorized contractor. This term excludes all dangerous wastes and hazardous wastes, and solid wastes intended for disposal in a landfill, incinerator, or solid waste disposal.

K. “Refuse” includes all putrescible and nonputrescible wastes, except sewage, from all public and private establishments and residences, excluding yard debris. Refuse includes pet waste.

L. “Residence/Residential” means a living space with a kitchen that is individually rented, leased, or owner-occupied.

M. “Drop box container” means an all-metal container with ten cubic yards or more capacity that is loaded onto a specialized collection vehicle, transported to a disposal or recycling site, and emptied.

N. “Single-Family Residence” means all one unit houses, duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes and mobile homes where each unit is billed individually and located on a public street or private road.

O. “Solid Waste” refers to organics, recycling, and refuse.

P. “Tote” or “Cart” refers to containers of ninety-six-gallon capacity or less, provided by the city or its designated contractor for collection, storage, and curbside placement of solid waste.

Q. “Yard Debris” means leaves, grass, and clippings of woody, and fleshy plants. Any piece of material larger than four inches in diameter or four feet in length is excluded. Only bundles of yard debris up to two feet in diameter by four feet in length and no more than fifty-five pounds, shall be allowed as yard debris, and shall be secured by degradable string or twine, not nylon or other synthetic materials. (Ord. 2953 § 1, 2015)