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<br />"Construction Debris" means waste building materials, pa.ckaging, and rubble resulting from
<br />construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of buildings and road.
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<br />"Day-Certain Collection" means a City approved plan for weekly collection services by an
<br />established day-certain schedule. This schedule requires that a route must be collected on the
<br />same day of each week and is based on a five (5) day, Monday - Friday, working week. The
<br />only exceptions to the "day-certain" plan shall be during those weeks in which occur legal
<br />holidays as listed in Appendix C.
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<br />"Disposal" or "Di:-pose" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or
<br />placing of any waste into or on any land or water so that the waste or any constituent thereof may
<br />enter the environment or be emitted into the air, or discharge into any water, including ground
<br />water.
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<br />"Garbage" means organic waste including discarded material resulting from the handling,
<br />processing, storage, preparation, serving, and consumption or food.
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<br />"Industrial Waste" means solid waste resulting from an industrial, manufacturing, service, or
<br />commercial activity that is managed as a separate waste system.
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<br />"Hazardous Waste" means any refuse, sludge, or other waste material or combinations of refuse,
<br />sludge or other waste materials in solid, semisolid, or liquid, or contained gaseous form which
<br />because of its quantity, concentration, or chemical, physical or infections characteristics may (a)
<br />cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible,
<br />or incapacitating reversible illness; or (b) pose substantial present or potential hazard to human
<br />health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed or otherwise
<br />managed. Categories of hazardous waste materials include, but are not limited to: explosives,
<br />flammable, oxidizers, poisons, irritants, and corrosives. Hazardous waste does not include
<br />source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
<br />am'ended. (MS 115 A. 03)
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<br />Household Hazardous Waste" means those wastes that cannot be disposed of through recycling
<br />efforts or refuse collection. These include, but are not limited to: aerosol spray cans, ammunition
<br />and explosives, cleaners, paint, paint thinner, staining products, varnishes, insect repellant spray
<br />cans, smoke detectors. and many more. These are wastes that are generated in the operation of a
<br />home and are based on limited, household quantities.
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<br />"Major Appliances" means clothes washers and dryers, dishwashers, hot water heaters, heat
<br />pumps, furnaces, garbage disposal, trash compactors, conventional and microwave ovens, ranges
<br />and stoves, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, refrigerators, and freezers.
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<br />',}v1ixed Municipal Solid Waste" means garbage, refuse, and other solid waste from residential
<br />commercial, industrial, and community activities that the generator of the waste aggregates for
<br />collection, but does not include auto hulks, street sweeping, ash, construction debris, mining
<br />waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes, tires, processed and disposed of as separate waste
<br />streams.
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