O-05-18 Amend Municipal Code Section 6.16 address Mandatory Recycling Requirement (AB) for MultiFamily and Commercial Business Recycling

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 "Recyclable Materials" means materials that have been separated from the solid waste stream prior to disposal and returning them for use or reuse in the form of raw materials for new, used _car reconstituted products which meet the quality standard necessary to be used in the market place and that are not landfilled. Recyclable Materials include any materials_ identified by City Manager for which a market exists, including, but not limited to: plastic bottles and jars, paper, cardboard, glass, newspaper, metal containers, cans, as well as com ostable materials such as green waste, vard waste or food waste. "Refuse" includes both Garbage and Rubbish as defined herein; but it does not include construction Materials, broken concrete, dirt from grading, rocks over two-inch diameter. "Responsible Party" means the individual or entily responsible for the Generator's mann ement of Solid Waste and for Recycling at the Generator's Commercial Facilit Business non-residential property, or Special Event. "Rubbish" means non putrescible Solid Waste, sueh as ashes, paper, cardboard, tin cans,liar waste wood ►lass beddin crockery,Mastics rubber -b - roducts and litter. "Scavenging or Scavenger" means the uncontrolled and unauthorized removal of Recyclable Materials at any point in the solid waste management system. "Self -Haul or Self Hauling" means a Generator or Responsible Party who transports his or her own Recyclable or Corn astable Materials to a Recycling Facility by using a vehicle owned by that Generator or Generators employees or the Responsible Party rather than using the hauling services of a Franchise Hauler or Authorized Recycler. "Solid Waste" means all putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semisolid, and iinuid wastes, including arra a "I'rash refuse paper, Rubbish ashes. industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, discarded home and industrial appliances, dewatered, treated or chemically fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous waste manure vegetable or aninial solid and semisolid wastes, and other discarded solid and semisolid wastes, and other discarded solid semi-solid wastes. Solid Waste does not include hazardous waste or low-level radioactive waste defined in Health and Safety Code Section 25117 and 25141. "Source Separated or Source Separation" means the process of removing Recyclable Materials from Solid Waste and the place of discard generation prior to collection, into separate containers that are separately designated for Recyclables, Compostables or Trash for the purposes of Recycling. "Special Event" means a community, public, commercial recreational or social event which may serve food or drink and which may require a permit from the City. Speeial event may include the temporary or periodic use of a public street, publicly owned site or facility, or Public Park and which is expected to have 1,000 or more persons in attendance, "Trash" means material that is designated for Landfill Disposal by the collector and does not include either Recvclable Materials or Compostables. The term Trash does not include hazardous waste as defined in California Health and Safely Code Sections 25117 and 25141. (Ord. 1009 § 1, 1959) 6.16.020 - Policy declaration. The accumulation, collection, removal and disposal of Refuse Must be controlled by the City for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare, and to contribute toward diminution of the presence of air Pollutants in the City. The Council finds that, to give practical effect to this policy, a comprehensive 23152.06000\30578143.3 - 5 -