For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section.

    "Authorized recycling collector" means a person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity authorized under and by virtue of a contract with the city to collect recyclable waste material in the city.

    "Designated recycling collection location" means curbside or other place designated in the contract between the city and an authorized recycling contractor from which the authorized recycling contractor has contracted to collect recyclable waste material.

    "Garbage" means dead animals of not more than ten pounds in weight; each accumulation of animal and vegetable matter that attends the preparation, consumption, decay, dealing in, or storage of, meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruits or vegetables. Such term does not include dishwater or waste water.

    "Recyclable waste material" means any one or more, but not limited to, of the following categories of materials collected and recycled or salvaged from within the city: newspapers, aluminum cans and containers, glass, PET, plastic beverage containers. The authorized recycling collector may, in its discretion, designate additional categories of nonhazardous or toxic materials for recycling or salvage.

    "Recycling" means the process of collecting and forming used products into new products by reprocessing or remanufacturing them.

    "Rubbish" means wood, leaves, dead trees or the branches of them, chips, shavings, sawdust, woodenware, dodgers, printed matter, paper, pasteboard, grass, rags, shoes, hats and all other combustible matter not included in the term "garbage."

    "Waste matter" means natural soil, earth, sand, clay, gravel, loam, stones, bricks, brickbats, plaster, portland cement, glass, glassware, ashes, cinders, shells, metals and all other noncombustible materials. (Prior code §§ 11-3 and 11-20)