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Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, words and phases used in this chapter shall have the meanings attributed to them in Chapter 6.12 VMC or in this section; provided, that in the case of a conflict, this section shall prevail:

"Person" means any natural person, any corporation, any professional service corporation, any partnership or any unincorporated association whether organized for profit or nonprofit.

"Recyclable materials" means materials which have passed through their originally intended usage, have use or value as a commercial commodity, and are intentionally separated from solid waste by their original consumer for collection for the purpose of reuse, reprocessing or remanufacture in accordance with the methods prescribed in this chapter and Chapter 6.12 VMC. Recyclable materials include but are not limited to paper, cardboard, metal, aluminum, glass, plastic, yard debris, used motor oil or other materials as may be designated now or hereafter by city administrative rule and/or the Clark County comprehensive solid waste management plan.

"Recycling" means transforming or remanufacturing materials into usable or marketable materials for use other than landfill disposal or incineration; except in the case of source-separated wood waste which has limited material use for use as fuel. "Recycling" includes composting of source-separated organics but not composting of mixed waste.

"Recycling facility" means a facility which separates, transforms or manufactures recyclable materials received from the public or other third-party generators, into usable or marketable material for reuse or resale rather than disposal by landfill or by incineration.

"Self-haul" means at commercial locations the owner or tenant or their employees can lawfully dispose of "solid waste" as defined in Chapter 6.12 VMC by carrying them in their own appropriate equipment to a disposal site or to other disposal facilities, but cannot contract with anyone other than the city’s "collector of solid waste" as defined in Chapter 6.12.

"Solid waste" means and includes all forms of putrescible and nonputrescible wastes including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, refuse, household animal waste, dead animals under two hundred pounds, nonrigid containers (bags), rigid pesticide containers that have been properly decontaminated by jet or multiple rinsing, residential ashes, industrial wastes, swill, demolition waste, special waste and construction wastes, other materials and substances that are currently or may in the future be included in the definition of "solid waste" in ORS 459.005 or RCW 70.95.030 and which are accumulated in any public or private residence or commercial, business or industrial establishment; provided, for the purposes of Chapters 6.12 and 5.62 VMC, "solid waste" shall not include industrial byproducts, nor sewage, and shall not include hazardous wastes, or recyclable material which is source separated and set out for recycling purposes as such terms are defined in this section.

"Source separate" means the separation of recyclable materials from solid waste, for the purpose of recycling, at the place where the recyclable material and solid waste originates. (Ord. M-3207 §1, 1995)