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Section 582. Definitions.
(A) Commercial Waste Hauler. "Commercial waste hauler" means any person engaged in the collection and transportation of solid waste for a fee or other compensation.
(B) Dispose; Disposal. "Dispose" means to discharge, dispose, deposit, dump, incinerate, spill or place any solid waste into or on any land, air or water or facility. "Disposal" means the discharge, disposal, deposit, dumping, incineration, spilling or placing of any solid waste.
(C) Person. "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association or any other legal entity or agents of any of the above, and the term shall include the singular and plural as appropriate.
(D) Recycling. "Recycling" means the collection, separation, recovery, reprocessing, and sale or reuse of manufactured materials or residues that would otherwise be disposed of or processed as waste for reuse in the same form or as part of a different product, other than through combustion or use as fuel for the generation of electricity.
(E) Recyclable Materials. For the purpose of this ordinance, "recyclable materials" means those materials, products or categories of solid waste designated by the city manager as requiring separation from the waste stream for recycling or for health and safety reasons. Recyclable materials covered under this ordinance include but are not limited to steel and other metal cans, clear glass bottle and jars, and newspapers. The city manager shall enlarge or otherwise modify this initial list of materials from time to time.
(F) Resident. "Resident" is any person who owns or rents a dwelling or other property improved for occupation within the City of Gardiner.
(G) Rubbish. For the purpose of this ordinance, "rubbish" means solid waste generated by residents in particular.
(H) Solid Waste. "Solid Waste" means useless, unwanted or discarded solid materials with insufficient liquid content to be free-flowing, including, but not limited to rubbish, garbage, refuse-derived fuel, scrap materials, junk, refuse, inert fill material and landscape refuse, but does not include septic tank sludge or agricultural wastes. The fact that a solid waste or constituent of the waste may have a value or another use or may be sold or exchanged does not exclude it from this definition.
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