6.10.080 Unlawful Disposal — Permits — Compost — Special Wastes.
A. It is unlawful for any person to burn, dump, collect, remove or in any other manner, dispose of garbage, refuse or swill upon any streets, alleys, public place or private property within the city otherwise than as provided in this chapter.
B. No person shall maintain on his premises in any residential zone in the city any receptacle for outdoor burning of waste paper, boxes, rubbish, brush, leaves, grass, woods, limbs, paper or cardboard.
C. No compost pile shall be kept or maintained unless sufficient appropriate material or substance, approved by the sanitation technician, is used to prevent the presence of flies, insects, bugs, rodents or other pests or menace to public health and welfare.
D. Residential Sharps Waste Disposal.
1. RCW 70.95K.030 provides that residential sharps waste shall not be placed into refuse, trash or solid waste collection containers if a residential sharps waste collection service is separately provided. The city does not elect to provide a sharps waste collection program within the city's solid waste utility.
2. All residential generators of sharps waste are prohibited from placing or causing or allowing the placing of such wastes into: (a) recycling containers or collection boxes provided by the city or (b) cans, carts, drop boxes or other containers in which refuse, trash or solid waste is or has been placed for collection.
3. All residential sharps waste shall be collected by an approved collector. The city's collector of garbage is an approved collector. The city designates the city's collector of garbage as the sharps waste collector for the city in order to assure such a service is available to generators of sharps waste. Any person needing or desiring to employ the services of the sharps collector shall deal directly with that collector. The collection of sharps waste shall be conducted outside the operation of the city's garbage utility.
E. Special Materials.
1. The collection, transportation and disposal of medical, biomedical, bio-hazard and/or infectious waste from generators within the city shall not be part of the city's garbage utility. The city's collector of garbage may collect such wastes or such portion of such wastes as the collector shall notify the city in writing. If the city's collector or garbage elects not to collect such waste or some part of such waste, then any licensed hauler of such materials authorized to operate in the city may provide such services. It shall be the responsibility of the generator of such wastes to arrange for their proper collection, transportation and disposal. Any licensed hauler, including the city's collector of garbage, operating in the city for the purposes of collection, transportation and disposal of such wastes shall be subject to all license requirements of the city and shall be responsible to pay any utility tax imposed by the city on the occupation of garbage or solid waste collection.
2. For purposes of this section, medical, biomedical, bio-hazardous and infectious waste is considered to be any biologic material produced within a health care facility for which special precautions are taken within that facility to reduce potential exposure of the health care facility staff, to include but not limited to untreated solid waste as defined by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission in WAC 480-70-050 as follows:
a. Animal waste;
b. Liquid human body fluids;
c. Cultures and stocks;
d. Bio-safety level 4 disease waste;
e. Pathological waste, and;
f. Sharps waste.
3. A generator of medical, bio-medical, bio-hazardous and infectious waste is defined as any person, firm, partnership, corporation, public entity, joint venture or otherwise which produces any of the defined wastes.