§ 22-16. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Garbage means discarded material resulting from the handling, processing, storage, preparation, serving, and consumption of food.

Open burning means burning any matter whereby the resultant combustion products are admitted directly to the open atmosphere without passing through an adequate stack, duct, or chimney.

Refuse means putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residue, street cleanings, and market and industrial solid waste, and including sewage treatment wastes which are in dry form.

Refuse collection service means a private operation engaged in solid waste collection and solid waste transportation.

Rubbish means nonputrescible solid waste, including ashes, consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, or litter of any kind.

Solid waste means garbage, refuse, rubbish, toxic and hazardous wastes, and other discarded solid materials, except animal waste used as fertilizer, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. "Solid waste" does not include earthen fill, boulders, rocks and other materials normally handled in construction operations, solids, or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste, water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants.

Solid waste storage means the holding of solid waste near the point of operation.

Toxic and hazardous wastes means waste materials including, but not limited to, poisons, pesticides, herbicides, acids, caustics, pathological wastes, radioactive materials, flammable or explosive materials, and similar harmful chemicals and wastes which require special handling and must be disposed of in a manner to conserve the environment and protect the public health and safety.

(Code 1984, Title 7, § 210)