"Commercial establishment" means one or more businesses located within the same building under the control and ownership of a single entity.

"Commercial and industrial refuse" means all solid wastes which originate in businesses, office buildings, stores, markets, theaters, housing complexes, multiple-family dwellings with three or more units, fruit processor or warehouse buildings, commercial buildings, churches, and schools. Commercial refuse may be classified as either garbage or rubbish.

Commercial and/or Industrial Bin. Commercial and industrial bins will be owned by the contractor. "Commercial and/or industrial bins" shall mean small receptacles that can be emptied by compactor collection trucks on site.

Container. Each and every customer shall provide a garbage container or containers but in no event shall said container or containers exceed thirty gallons in capacity or seven and one-half pounds of empty weight, not to exceed fifty-five pounds when full.

"Contractor" means the party with whom the city has contracted to provide garbage collection and recycling pick-up services.

"Drop boxes and compactors" means a detachable container system in which a large container is pulled onto a service vehicle mechanically and carried to a disposal site. Compactors under this definition shall be owned by the customer.

"Garbage" means all putrescible animal, fish, food, fowl, fruit, grain or vegetable matter resulting from the preparation, storage, handling, decay or use thereof, and all organic waste.

"Recyclable material" means all material which would otherwise be defined as garbage or rubbish, but which meets any of the following criteria:

"Rubbish" means all sweepings, cleanings, trash, litter, tin cans, broken crockery, glassware, wastepaper, leaves, waste building materials, containers, bottles, ashes, cast-off clothing, yard trimmings, grass, metal, wire, tree branches not over five feet in length tied in bundles, and all other nonputrescible or other discarded material or debris.

"Yard waste" includes soil, grass clippings, leaves, weeds, trimmings from plants, trees and bushes, and other plant or vegetable matter. (Ord. 2027, § 1, 2017; Ord. 1158, § 1, 1994; Ord. 1151, § 1, 1994.)