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<br /> "Construction Debris" means waste building materials, packaging, and rubble resulting from
<br /> construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of buildings and road.
<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.
<br /> "Disposal" or "Dispose" 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.
<br /> "Garbage" means organic waste including discarded material resulting from the handling,
<br /> processing, storage, preparation, serving, and consumption or food.
<br /> "Industrial Waste" means solid waste resulting from an industrial, manufacturing, service, or
<br /> commercial activity that is managed as a separate waste system.
<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 /> amended. (MS 115A.03)
<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.
<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.
<br /> "Mixed 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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