A. "Recycling" includes the recycling, salvaging, composting, or other reuse, retrieval, collection, processing, and/or marketing of materials so that they are returned to use by society. "Recycling" does not include disposal of goods or materials through landfilling or burning.

B. "Waste" includes solid waste; garbage; animal, fruit, and vegetable refuse; offal; leaves and cuttings; trimmings from trees, shrubs, and grass; inorganic refuse and rubbish; and anything else thrown away as worthless, useless, or undesirable, including, but not limited to, furniture, batteries, plastics, chemicals, and construction debris.

C. "Recycling program" includes any program, operation, business, group, organization, person, or other entity engaged in the recycling of goods or materials generated at two or more locations.

D. "Buyback" includes any recycling program for the purchase of recyclable waste materials from those who generate or collect them.

E. "Dropoff" includes any recycling program that accepts without charge or payment recyclable waste materials from those who generate them.

F. "Source-separated residential collection" includes any recycling program for the collection of separated recyclable waste materials from residences.

G. "Salvage" includes any recycling program that intercepts waste goods and materials otherwise destined for disposal at a transfer station, landfill, or garbage-burning plant.

H. "Composting" includes any program to transform by natural decomposition such organic waste material as plant debris into such useful and valuable products as soil amendments.

I. "Commercial recycling" includes any recycling program to collect or receive waste goods and materials primarily or exclusively from commercial, industrial, or institutional establishments. (Ord. 5625A-NS § 10, 1984)