§ 4.04.010. Definitions—Solid Waste Collection, Transport, Storage and Disposal.  


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  • For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply:

    (a)

    "Backyard collection service" means the provision of solid waste collection service in the rear or side of the premises.

    (b)

    "Board" means the Board of Supervisors of the County.

    (c)

    "Collection" means the act of collecting solid waste at the place of waste generation by an approved refuse collector (public or private) and is a form of removal.

    (d)

    "Commingled recyclable materials" means recyclable materials that are source separated at the point of generation but placed into a single container. Commingled recyclable materials shall not contain putrescible waste.

    (e)

    "Compost" is the product of a controlled microbial (aerobic) decomposition of organic materials including vegetable and green materials, but not including hazardous waste, which are separated from the solid waste stream, and which yields a safe and nuisance-free product.

    (f)

    "Construction and demolition debris" as defined in Chapter 4.105 Recycling and Diversion of Debris from Construction and Demolition, Section 4.105.010(a).

    (g)

    "County Health Officer" shall be the person appointed by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code or his/her duly authorized representative.

    (h)

    "Curbside collection services" means the provision of solid waste collection service at the curb or within five feet of the right of way of the premises.

    (i)

    "Franchised Area" is the unincorporated County area within the South Bayside Waste Management Authority area excluding CSA-8 (North Fair Oaks) and West Bay Sanitary District, and its boundaries are defined by the incorporated city boundaries, which are contiguous with the unincorporated County boundaries.

    (j)

    "Organic materials" means those materials that the County permits, directs, or requires to be separated from solid waste for collection in specially designated containers for organic materials recycling. Organic materials include, but are not limited to, plant materials, vegetable, green and/or food materials from food facilities, grocery stores, institutional cafeterias (such as, jails, schools, and hospitals) or residential food scraps.

    (k)

    "Person" shall mean and include any County, City, municipal corporation, district, corporation, firm or person, or their agents or employees.

    (l)

    "Post consumer material, also known as "post consumer waste," is any product which has served its intended use by a business or a consumer, and has been disposed and subsequently separated from solid waste for use as a constituent in a new product. Post consumer material consists of but is not limited to: paper, plastics, glass, aluminum and metal cans, rubber, packaging materials, etc.

    (m)

    "Putrescible waste" includes waste that is capable of becoming putrid, spoils, or is decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity to cause a nuisance because of odors, gases, or other offensive conditions.

    (n)

    "Recycle" or "recycling" means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting materials that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace. Recycling does not include transformation.

    (o)

    "Recyclable materials" means discarded materials, source separated at the point of generation, that can be re-used, remanufactured, reconstituted, or recycled. Recyclable materials do not contain putrescible waste.

    (p)

    "Refuse collector" shall mean a person who has been awarded an official franchise between the County and the refuse collector for collection of garbage, solid waste, organic and targeted recyclable materials.

    (q)

    "Refuse collector - non-franchised area" shall mean a person who may transport solid waste from premises located in areas not serviced by a refuse collector as defined in section 4.04.010(p) of this chapter.

    (r)

    "Report" means the report referred to in County Ordinance Code Section 4.04.250 "Report for the Service Area."

    (s)

    "Service Area" means County Service Area No. 8.

    (t)

    "Service charges" means fees or other charges for services furnished or offered in connection with the weekly collection service.

    (u)

    "Single-stream non-targeted recyclable materials" shall mean recyclable materials that are source separated at the point of generation, which have not been commingled with other solid wastes or recyclable materials, and are separated by material type and stored and transferred in separate containers to an authorized processor. Single-stream recyclable materials shall not contain putrescible waste.

    (v)

    "Single-stream targeted recyclable materials" shall mean recyclable materials that have been targeted by the refuse collector and placed commingled by the generator into containers provided by the refuse collector for the purposes of collection.

    (w)

    "Solid Waste" means all putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semisolid, and liquid wastes, including garbage, trash, refuse, compost, recyclables, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, appliances, dewatered, treated, or chemically fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous waste, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid wastes, and other discarded solid and semisolid wastes. Solid Waste does not include the following:

    (1)

    Hazardous waste, as defined in Public Resource Code.

    (2)

    Radioactive waste, as regulated pursuant to the Radiation Control Law.

    (3)

    Medical waste, as regulated pursuant to the Medical Waste Management Act.

    (x)

    "Weekly Collection Service" means collection service that is scheduled in advance and provided once-per-week on the same day or days each week by a refuse collector's vehicle or equipment.

(Ord. No. 04528, § 1, 11-30-2010)