“Act” means the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (commencing with Section 40000 of the Public Resources Code), as amended, including, but not limited to, the Jobs and Recycling Act of 2011 (AB 341), SB 1016 adopted 2008, the Mandatory Commercial Organics Recycling Act of 2014 (SB 1826), and the Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Bill of 2016 (SB 1383), and applicable implementing regulations from the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (“CalRecycle”).

“Blue container” has the same meaning as in 14 CCR Section 18982.2(a)(5) and shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of blue container organic waste, which is solid waste that is collected in a blue container that is part of a three-container organic waste collection service that prohibits the placement of organic waste in the blue container as specified in 14 CCR Section 18984.1.

“CCR” means the State of California Code of Regulations. CCR references in this chapter are preceded with a number that refers to the relevant title of the CCR (e.g., “14 CCR” refers to Title 14 of the CCR.

“Collect” or “collection” means the process whereby solid waste is removed from the place of generation for transportation to a solid waste facility or other recovery activity.

“Commercial business” or “commercial” means a firm, partnership, proprietorship, joint stock company, corporation, or association, whether for-profit or nonprofit, a multifamily residential dwelling, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR 18982(a)(6). A multifamily residential dwelling that consists of fewer than five units is not a commercial business for purposes of this chapter.

“Commercial edible food generator” means a tier one or a tier two commercial edible food generator as defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(73) and (a)(74). Food recovery organizations and food recovery services are not commercial edible food generators.

“Community composting” means any activity that composts green material, agricultural material, food material, and vegetative food material, alone or in combination, and the total amount of feed stock and compost on site at any one time does not exceed one hundred cubic yards and seven hundred fifty square feet, as specified in 14 CCR Section 17855(a)(4); or as otherwise defined by 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(8).

“Compost” shall have the same meaning as in 14 CCR Section 17896.2(a)(4), which stated, as of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, that “compost” means the product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition of organic solid wastes that are source separated from the municipal solid waste stream, or which are separated at a centralized facility.

“Compostable plastics” or “compostable plastic” means plastic materials that meet the ASTM D6400 standard for compostability, or as otherwise described in 14 CCR Section 18984.1(a)(1)(A) or 18984.2(a)(1)(C).

“Construction and demolition debris” or “C&D” means used and discarded materials resulting from construction, renovation, remodeling, repair, demolition, excavation, or construction cleanup operations.

“Container” means any bin, box, cart, or similar vessel used for the purposes of holding solid waste for collection.

“Container contamination” or “contaminated container” means a container, regardless of color, that contains prohibited container contaminants, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(55).

“Debris box” means any ten- to forty-cubic-yard container or any compactor provided by a solid waste generator placed in the public right-of-way, on City property, private property, or elsewhere in the City’s service area, which is procured by a solid waste generator for its use in the collection of its solid waste. Debris boxes are serviced by means of lifting the entire container, including contents, onto a designated collection vehicle.

“Edible food” means food intended for human consumption, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(18). For the purposes of this chapter or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(18), edible food is not solid waste if it is recovered and not discarded. Nothing in this chapter or in 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 requires or authorizes the recovery of edible food that does not meet the food safety requirements of the California Retail Food Code.

“Enforcement action” means an action of the City, or an enforcement agency delegated by the City, to address noncompliance with this chapter including, but not limited to, issuing administrative citations, fines, penalties, or using other remedies.

“Excluded waste” means hazardous substance, hazardous waste, infectious waste, designated waste, volatile, corrosive, medical waste, regulated radioactive waste, and toxic substances or material that facility operator(s), which receive materials from the City and its generators, reasonably believe(s) would, as a result of or upon acceptance, transfer, processing, or disposal, be a violation of local, State, or Federal law, regulation, or ordinance, including: land use restrictions or conditions, waste that cannot be disposed of in Class III landfills or accepted at the facility by permit conditions, waste that would reasonably present a significant risk to human health or the environment, cause a nuisance or otherwise create or expose the City, or its designee, to potential liability; but not including de minimis volumes or concentrations of waste of a type and amount normally found in single-family or multifamily solid waste after implementation of programs for the safe collection, processing, recycling, treatment, and disposal of batteries and paint in compliance with Sections 41500 and 41802 of the Public Resources Code.

“Food distributor” means a company that distributes food to entities including, but not limited to, supermarkets and grocery stores, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(22).

“Food facility” has the same meaning as in Section 113789 of the Health and Safety Code.

“Food recovery” means actions to collect and distribute food for human consumption that otherwise would be disposed, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(24).

“Food recovery organization” means an entity that engages in the collection or receipt of edible food from commercial edible food generators and distributes that edible food to the public for food recovery either directly or through other entities or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(25), including, but not limited to:

A food recovery organization is not a commercial edible food generator for the purposes of this chapter and implementation of 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 pursuant to 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(7).

“Food recovery service” means a person or entity that collects and transports edible food from a commercial edible food generator to a food recovery organization or other entities for food recovery, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(26). A food recovery service is not a commercial edible food generator for the purposes of this chapter and implementation of 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 pursuant to 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(7).

“Food service provider” means an entity primarily engaged in providing food services to institutional, governmental, commercial, or industrial locations of others based on contractual arrangements with these types of organizations, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(27).

“Food waste” means food scraps and trimmings from food preparation, storage, production, or similar activity, including, but not limited to, meat, fish, and dairy waste, fruit and vegetable waste, grain waste, and acceptable food packaging items such as pizza boxes, paper towels, and food contaminated paper products.

“Garbage” means all nonrecyclable waste, debris, or refuse, not including any type of hazardous materials or excluded waste.

“Gray container” has the same meaning as in 14 CCR Section 18982.2(a)(28) and shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of gray container waste, which is solid waste that is collected in a gray container that is part of a three-container organic waste collection service that prohibits the placement of organic waste in the gray container as specified in 14 CCR Section 18984.1(a) and (b), or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 17402(a)(6.5).

“Green container” has the same meaning as in 14 CCR Section 18982.2(a)(29) and shall be used for the purpose of storage and collection of separated green container organic waste.

“Hauler route” means the designated itinerary or sequence of stops for each segment of the City’s collection service area, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(31.5).

“Hazardous waste” means any waste materials or mixture of wastes defined as such pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., and Section 25110.02, 25115 or 25117 of the Health and Safety Code, all implementing regulations, and any successor statutes, or as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and/or the California Integrated Waste Management Board, or similar State or Federal agency. Where there is a conflict in the definitions by two or more agencies having jurisdiction, the term shall be construed to have the broader definition. “Hazardous waste” does not mean or include household hazardous waste.

“High diversion organic waste processing facility” means a facility that is in compliance with the reporting requirements of 14 CCR Section 18815.5(d) and meets or exceeds an annual average mixed waste organic content recovery rate of fifty percent between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024, and seventy-five percent after January 1, 2025, as calculated pursuant to 14 CCR Section 18815.5(e) for organic waste received from the “mixed waste organic collection stream” as defined in 14 CCR Section 17402(a)(11.5); or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(33).

“Household hazardous waste” means materials that the authorized collector may designate from time to time as eligible for curbside pickup but inappropriate for collection with regular pickup and that are commonly generated by residential customers. Examples include, without limitation, consumer electronic waste, including computers, monitors, printers and cell phones, latex paint, used motor oil, oil filters, common household batteries (but not car batteries), fluorescent lightbulbs under four feet in length, and nonempty aerosol cans.

“Inspection” means a site visit where a jurisdiction or its designee or designated entity reviews records, containers, and an entity’s collection, handling, recycling, or disposal of solid waste or edible food handling to determine if the entity is complying with requirements set forth in this chapter, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(35).

“Multifamily dwelling” means dwellings that include five or more individual living units that receive and pay authorized collector’s invoices as a single collective bill.

“MWELO” refers to the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO), 23 CCR, Division 2, Chapter 2.7.

“Nonorganic recyclables” means nonputrescible and nonhazardous recyclable wastes including but not limited to bottles, cans, metals, plastics and glass, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(43).

“Organic waste” means solid wastes containing material originating from living organisms and their metabolic waste products, including but not limited to food, green material, landscape and pruning waste, organic textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products, printing and writing paper, manure, biosolids, digestate, and sludges or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(46). Biosolids and digestate are as defined by 14 CCR Section 18982(a).

“Organic waste generator” means a person or entity that is responsible for the initial creation of organic waste, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(48).

“Prohibited container contaminants” means (1) discarded materials placed in the designated recyclables container that are not identified as acceptable source separated recyclables for the City’s designated recyclables collection container; (2) discarded materials placed in the designated organic materials collection container that are not identified as acceptable source separated organic materials for the City’s designated organic materials collection container; (3) discarded materials placed in the garbage container that are acceptable source separated recyclables and/or source separated organic materials to be placed in City’s designated organic materials collection container and/or designated recyclables collection container; and (4) exempt waste placed in any container.

“Recovered organic waste products” means products made from California, landfill-diverted recovered organic waste processed in a permitted or otherwise authorized facility, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(60).

“Recovery” means any activity or process described in 14 CCR Section 18983.1(b), or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(49).

“Recyclable materials, source separated” means materials that are separated to be processed into a form suitable for reuse, and designated to be separated from the waste stream for purposes of recycling, which designation shall be made the City and the authorized collector, consistent with materials designated by State law.

“Recycled-content paper” means paper products and printing and writing paper that consists of at least thirty percent, by fiber weight, postconsumer fiber, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(61).

“Remote monitoring” means the use of the internet of things (IoT) and/or wireless electronic devices to visualize the contents of blue containers, green containers, and gray containers for purposes of identifying the quantity of materials in containers (level of fill) and/or presence of prohibited container contaminants.

“SB 1383” means Senate Bill 1383 of 2016 approved by the Governor on September 19, 2016, which added Sections 39730.5, 39730.6, 39730.7, and 39730.8 to the Health and Safety Code, and added Chapter 13.1 (commencing with Section 42652) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, establishing methane emissions reduction targets in a Statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants as amended, supplemented, superseded, and replaced from time to time.

“SB 1383 regulations” or “SB 1383 regulatory” means or refers to, for the purposes of this chapter, the Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: Organic Waste Reduction regulations developed by CalRecycle and adopted in 2020 that created 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 and amended portions of regulations of Titles 14 and 27 of the CCR.

“Self-hauler” means a person who hauls solid waste, organic waste or recyclable material he or she has generated to another person. “Self-hauler” also includes a person who backhauls waste, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(66). “Backhaul” means generating and transporting organic waste to a destination owned and operated by the generator using the generator’s own employees and equipment, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(66)(A).

“Single-family” means of, from, or pertaining to any residential premises with fewer than five units.

“Solid waste” has the same meaning as defined in Section 40191 of the Public Resources Code, which defines “solid waste” as all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes, including garbage, recyclable materials, organic materials, demolition and construction wastes, bulky waste, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid or semisolid wastes, and other discarded solid and semisolid wastes with the exception that “solid waste” does not include any of the following wastes: (1) hazardous waste, as defined in Section 40141 of the Public Resources Code; (2) radioactive waste regulated pursuant to the State Radiation Control Law, Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 114960) of Part 9 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code; and (3) medical waste regulated pursuant to the State Medical Waste Management Act, Part 14 (commencing with Section 117600) of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code. Untreated medical waste shall not be disposed of in a solid waste landfill, as defined in Section 40195.1 of the Public Resources Code. Medical waste that has been treated and deemed to be solid waste shall be regulated pursuant to Division 30 of the Public Resources Code. Recyclable materials and organic materials are a part of solid waste.

“Solid waste collection service” means collection of solid waste originating in the City, by persons, firms or corporations, and doing so under a contract or franchise agreement with the City.

“Source separated” means materials, including commingled recyclable materials, that have been separated or kept separate from the solid waste stream, at the point of generation, for the purpose of additional sorting or processing those materials for recycling or reuse in order to return them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products, which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 17402.5(b)(4). For the purposes of this chapter, “source separated” shall include separation of materials by the generator, property owner, property owner’s employee, property manager, or property manager’s employee into different containers for the purpose of collection.

“Tier one commercial edible food generator” means a commercial edible food generator that is one of the following as defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a):

“Tier two commercial edible food generator” means a commercial edible food generator that is one of the following: