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9.20.010
<br /> 247 (Pleasanton Supp. No. 27, 1-22)
<br />Chapter 9.20
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<br />GARBAGE
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<br />Sections:
<br />9.20.010 Definitions.
<br />9.20.020 General provisions.
<br />9.20.030 Solid waste, recyclables and organic
<br />waste service.
<br />9.20.040 Private permits for garbage
<br />removal.
<br />9.20.045 Third party removal prohibited.
<br />9.20.050 Solid waste, recyclables and organic
<br />waste—Preparation.
<br />9.20.060 Solid waste, recyclables and organic
<br />waste—Collection.
<br />9.20.070 Solid waste, recyclables and organic
<br />waste—Removal.
<br />9.20.080 Solid waste, recyclables and organic
<br />waste—Disposal and recycling.
<br />9.20.085 Ownership of recyclable material
<br />and illegal removal.
<br />9.20.090 Rates.
<br />9.20.100 Collection contract.
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<br />9.20.010 Definitions.
<br /> As used in this chapter, the following words shall
<br />have the meanings given in this section:
<br /> A. “Commercial unit” means any occupied
<br />premises specifically utilized for the purpose of engag-
<br />ing in commercial activity as defined in Chapter 18.44
<br />of this code.
<br /> B. “Industrial unit” means any occupied prem-
<br />ises specifically utilized for the purpose of engaging in
<br />industrial activity as defined in Chapter 18.48 of this
<br />code.
<br /> C. “Organic waste” means solid waste contain-
<br />ing material originated from living organisms and their
<br />metabolic waste products, including, but not limited to,
<br />food, green material, landscape and pruning waste, or-
<br />ganic textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products,
<br />printing and writing paper, manure, biosolids, digestate,
<br />and sludges or as otherwise defined in 14 California
<br />Code of Regulations (CCR) Section 18982(a)(46), as
<br />amended. Biosolids and digestate are as defined by 14
<br />CCR Section 18982(a), as amended.
<br /> D. “Recyclable materials” or “recyclables”
<br />means newspaper, cardboard, mixed color paper, white
<br />paper, junk mail, magazines, telephone books, paper
<br />bags, cereal and food boxes, egg cartons, plastic bottles
<br />and containers labeled #1-7, plastic milk containers,
<br />detergent containers, clear, brown and green food and
<br />beverage container glass, cans of aluminum, steel, tin,
<br />food cans, empty aerosol cans, pipe tins which have
<br />been separated from solid waste and organic materials
<br />prior to collection. “Recyclable materials” shall also
<br />include those materials described in the collection con-
<br />tract entered into pursuant to Section 9.20.100 of this
<br />chapter.
<br /> E. “Recycle” or “recycling” means the process
<br />of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconsti-
<br />tuting materials that would otherwise become solid
<br />waste, and returning them to the economic mainstream
<br />in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconsti-
<br />tuted products which meet the quality standards neces-
<br />sary to be used in the marketplace.
<br /> F. “Residential unit” means any occupied
<br />premises having bathroom or toilet, and kitchen plumb-
<br />ing facilities, suitable for residential occupancy by a
<br />number of persons living together as a single family,
<br />including single-family dwellings, and each group of
<br />occupied rooms constituting living quarters for a single
<br />family in any duplex, triplex, apartment, court or other
<br />multiple dwelling structure, by excluding any living or
<br />sleeping quarters in hotels, apartments, rooming houses,
<br />motels or auto courts where kitchen facilities are not
<br />provided. For the purposes of this chapter, a premises
<br />with five or more residential units is multi-family resi-
<br />dential.
<br /> G. “Solid waste” means all putrescible and non-
<br />putrescible solid, semi-solid, and liquid wastes, includ-
<br />ing garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, indus-
<br />trial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, aban-
<br />doned vehicles and parts thereof, discarded home and
<br />industrial appliances, dewatered, treated, or chemically
<br />fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous waste, ma-
<br />nure, vegetable or animal solid and semi-solid wastes,
<br />and other discarded solid and semi-solid wastes.
<br /> H. “Solid waste” does not include any of the
<br />following wastes:
<br /> 1. Hazardous waste, as defined in Section
<br />40141.
<br /> 2. Radioactive waste regulated pursuant to the
<br />Radiation Control Law (Chapter 8 (commencing with
<br />Section 114960) of Part 9 of Division 104 of the Health
<br />and Safety Code).
<br /> 3. Medical waste regulated pursuant to the
<br />Medical Waste Management Act (Part 14 (commencing
<br />with Section 117600) of Division 104 of the Health and
<br />Safety Code). Untreated medical waste shall not be dis-
<br />posed of in a solid waste landfill, as defined in Section
<br />40195.1. Medical waste that has been treated and
<br />deemed to be solid waste shall be regulated pursuant to
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