“Bulky item” means refuse items that are too large or too voluminous to be placed in a residential refuse container, which include, but are not limited to, furniture or appliances, and small equipment, such as lawnmowers.

“Electronic device” means a device that is marketed by a manufacturer for use by a consumer and that is:

“Excluded waste” means all commercial and industrial refuse, construction debris, large dead animals, institutional solid waste, hazardous waste, offal waste, stable matter, vegetable waste and special waste, highly flammable substances, liquid waste, certain pathological and biological wastes, explosives, toxic materials, radioactive materials, material that the disposal facility is not authorized to receive and/or dispose of, and other materials deemed by state, federal or local law, or in the reasonable discretion of the Town, to be dangerous or threatening to health or the environment, or which cannot be legally accepted at the applicable disposal facility.

“Food waste” means all compostable pre- and post-consumer food waste, such as whole and partial pieces of produce, meats, bones, cheese, bread, cereals, coffee grounds, or eggshells, and food-soiled paper, such as paper napkins, paper towels, paper plates, coffee filters, paper take-out boxes, pizza boxes, or other paper products accepted by the Town’s designated composting site. Food waste does not include dead animals, plastics, diapers, kitty litter, liquid wastes, ashes, pet wastes, and other materials prohibited by the Town’s designated composting site.

“Homeowner association” means any covenant-controlled community containing eight (8) or more residential property owners, which includes a lawfully constituted and operational board or other similar entity which is empowered to enforce the community’s recorded covenants.

“Large dead animals” means animals or portions thereof equal to or greater than ten (10) pounds in weight that have expired from any cause, except those slaughtered or killed for human use.

“Licensed refuse hauler” means a person or entity which has obtained current authority from the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to collect, transport or remove refuse, garbage, rubbish, recyclables or toxic refuse within the Town and registered such authority with the Town Manager.

“Offal waste” means waste animal (land or marine) matter from establishments such as butcher shops, slaughterhouses, food processing and packing plants, rendering plants and fertilizer plants.

“Organics” means food waste and yard waste separately or combined.

“Recyclable materials” means those materials, goods and items deemed as single-stream recyclables by the Town’s designated recycling facility or those materials, goods and items deemed recyclable by other licensed collectors operating within the Town.

“Refuse” means all nonhazardous, solid waste, including rubbish generated at a residential unit but does not include any excluded waste.

“Refuse container” means, for those persons subject to the Town’s residential waste collection service program, a wheeled cart suitable for mechanical lifting with a lid for containing and setting out refuse for collection in sizes of approximately thirty-two (32) gallons, sixty-four (64) gallons and/or ninety-six (96) gallons. For all other persons “refuse container” means a metal or other nonabsorbent container equipped with a tightly fitting metal or nonabsorbent lid.

“Residential waste collection services” means the collection and transportation of residential refuse and recyclables by the Town’s designated service provider from those participants in the Town’s residential waste collection service program.

“Rubbish” means all waste wood, wood chips, shavings, sawdust, pasteboard, rags, straw, used and discarded mattresses, used and discarded clothing, used and discarded shoes and boots, combustible waste pulp and other products such as are used for packaging, or wrapping, crockery and glass, ashes, cinders, floor sweepings, glass, mineral or metallic substances, and any and all other waste materials not included in the definition of excluded waste.

“Single-stream recycling” means the commingling of all forms of materials, goods and items that are approved for recycling at the Town’s designated recycling facility.

“Single-stream recycling container” means, for those persons subject to the Town’s residential waste collection service program, a ninety-six (96) gallon wheeled cart suitable for mechanical lifting with lid for containing and setting out single-stream recycling materials for collection. For all other persons “single stream recycling container” means a metal or other nonabsorbent container equipped with a tightly fitting metal or nonabsorbent lid.

“Solid waste” means useless, unwanted or discarded materials with insufficient liquid content to be free-flowing, that result from domestic, industrial, commercial, agricultural, governmental and community operations, which require proper storage, collection, transportation and disposal to prevent environmental pollution inimical to public health, safety and welfare. Solid waste does not include sewage, earth or material used to fill land in accordance with building codes, mining residues, slag, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial wastewater effluents which are not acceptable for disposal in any sanitary sewage treatment system or any material included in the definition of excluded waste.

“Special waste” means nonhazardous solid waste that is subject to additional governmental regulations or special handling requirements in its collection, transportation, processing or disposal as a result of the characteristics of or processes which generate such waste. Special waste includes, but is not limited to:

“Vegetable waste” means putrescible solid waste resulting from the processing of plants for food by commercial establishments such as canneries. This definition does not include food waste or waste products resulting from the preparation and consumption of food in places such as cafeterias and restaurants.

“Yard waste” means leaves, grass, and clippings of woody as well as fleshy plants. Materials larger than four inches (4") in diameter or four feet (4') in length are excluded. Bundles of yard waste up to two feet (2') in diameter by four feet (4') in length, and no more than fifty-five (55) pounds, shall be allowed, and must be secured by degradable string or twine, not nylon or other synthetic materials. Unflocked whole Christmas trees cut to less than four feet (4') in height are acceptable. (Ord. 767 §3 (Exh. A), 2019)