“Agricultural waste” means all solid waste generated by the growing, washing or preparation for marketing of agricultural products, without cooking, blanching or other processing.

“Ashes” means the solid waste products of coal, wood or other fuels used for heating and cooking, from all public and private establishments and from all residences.

“Combustible rubbish” means burnable material is in general, the organic component of refuse paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood excelsior, furniture, bedding, rubber, plastics, leather, tree branches, lawn trimmings, and the like.

“Commercial refuse” means all solid wastes which originate in businesses, office buildings, stores, markets, theaters, and other buildings.

“Compactor collection truck” means enclosed vehicles provided with a special mechanical devices for loading the refuse into the main compartment of the body, for compressing the loaded materials, and for distributing the refuse within the body.

“Compost” means a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land.

“Construction and demolition wastes” means waste building materials and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition operations on houses, commercial buildings, pavements and other structures.

“Containers” means receptacles required by the city on contract garbage collectors for the collection of garbage. Also referred to as toters.

“Disposal site” means the location where any treatment, utilization processing or deposition of solid waste occurs.

“Drop box site” means a loading site where small loads of solid waste are dumped into a large container for transport to a processing and/or disposal site.

“Functional standards” means the criteria for solid waste handling expressed in terms of expected performance.

“Garbage” means all putrescible material including all putrescible 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.

“Ground water” means water in the ground that is in the zone of saturation.

“Hazardous wastes” means dangerous wastes requiring special handling including, but is not limited to, explosives, pathological wastes, radioactive materials and chemicals.

“Industrial solid waste” means all solid wastes which result from industrial processes and manufacturing operations such as factories, processing plants, repair and cleaning establishments, refineries and rendering plants.

“Institutional solid waste” means solid waste generated by hospitals, nursing homes, schools, prisons, reformatories, or other buildings housing any organization having social, education or religious purposes, excluding sharps and bio-medical costs.

“Jurisdictional health department” means the Grant County Health District.

“Landfill” means the solid waste disposal process using land for the final disposal site.

“Noncombustible rubbish” means material that is unburnable at ordinary incinerator temperatures (one thousand three hundred (1,300) degrees to two thousand (2,000) degrees Fahrenheit). For the most part, it is the inorganic component of refuse, such as tin cans, heavy metal, mineral matter, glass crockery, dust, metal furniture, ashes and the like.

“Offal” means intestine and discarded parts from the slaughter of animals.

“On-site disposal” includes all means of disposal or, more usually, volume reduction, of refuse on premises before collection. Examples are garbage and grinding, burning or incineration, burial, compaction or slurrying at homes and commercial establishments.

“Open burning” means the burning of solid wastes in an open area or burning of solid wastes in a type of vessel or chamber which is not approved in regulations.

“Open dumping” means the depositing of solid wastes into a body or stream of water, or onto the surface of the ground without compacting the wastes and covering with suitable material to a suitable depth that would prevent vector nuisance and pollution problems.

“Pathogen” means any infective agent capable of producing disease; may be a virus, rickettsia, bacterium, protozoan, etc.

“Person” means an individual, firm, association, co-partnership, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, public or private corporation or any other entity whatsoever.

“Pollution” means the presence in the environment or portion of the environment of contaminating substances, materials, forms of animal or plant life in sufficient quantities and of such characteristics and duration, as is or is likely to be, injurious to humans, to other plant or animal life, or property, or which unreasonably interfere with enjoyment of life and property.

“Processing of waste” means the operation of solid waste which converts a waste into something useful, leaving the term “handling” to describe what is done to prepare it for disposal.

“Putrescible” means capable of being decomposed by micro-organisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances from odors, gases, etc. Kitchen wastes, offal and dead animals are examples of putrescible components of solid waste.

"Refuse” See “Solid waste.”

“Rendering” means a process of salvaging fats and oils, animal feed and other products from animal waste by cooking. Dead animals, fish and wastes from slaughter houses and butcher shops are commonly used.

“Rubbish” means all discarded non-putrescible solid waste except ashes, including paper, cardboard, tin cans, wood, glass, bedding, yard clippings, etc.

“Salvage” means reclaimable solid waste such as paper, metal, bottles, or other objects saved for the purpose of sale or other use not prohibited by law, rule or regulation.

“Sanitary landfill” means a method of disposing of refuse on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or safety, by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the refuse 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.

"Sanitation Technician" means the mayor or employee of the city of George delegated by the mayor and authorized to administer this chapter.

“Scavenging” means the uncontrolled picking of materials.

“Solid waste” means all putrescible and non-putrescible solid and semi-solid wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semi-solid wastes and other discarded material.

“Solid waste disposal” means final disposition of solid waste by acceptable means.

“Solid waste handling” means the storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing and final disposal of solid wastes.

“Special wastes” means wastes that are difficult or unusual in the characteristics of quantities or composition to handle.

“Street refuse” means material picked up by manual and mechanical sweeping of streets and sidewalks, litter from public litter receptacles, and dirt removed from catch basins.

“Surface water” means a body of water whose top surface is exposed to the atmosphere including a flowing body as well as a pond or lake.

“Swill” means the semi-liquid animal or vegetable waste of kitchens, markets or stores.

“Transfer station” means a loading site where solid waste is transferred from one vehicle to another for transfer to a final disposal site.

"Trash" See “Rubbish.”

“Vector (of disease)” means a living insect or other arthropod, or animal (not human), which transmits infectious diseases from one person or animal to another.

“Waste” means useless, unused, unwanted or discarded materials. Waste includes solids, liquids, and gases. The gases are principally industrial fumes and smoke; the liquids consist mainly of sewage and the fluid part of industrial wastes; the solids are classed as refused or solid wastes.