For the purposes of this article, the following terms,
phrases words and their derivations shall have the meanings given
herein:
CASUAL TRASH
Includes single newspapers, food, gum, candy wrappers, ice
cream bags and sticks, individual sheets of paper, empty paper or
plastic bags or like items that a passerby might carry and discard,
such as tissues or food containers from which the discarding person
consumed the food. Casual trash does not include commercial, business
or household garbage, trash or waste.
DUMPSTER
Waste receptacles for the disposal of litter, garbage, rubbish
and casual trash.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food, as well as
all household waste.
LITTER
Garbage, refuse, rubbish and casual trash as defined herein
and all other waste material which, if thrown or deposited as herein
prohibited, tends to create a danger to public health, safety and
welfare.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body
wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleaning, dead animals,
abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard,
tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and
similar materials.