Sec. 380.502. - Definitions.

(a) Authorized recycling contractor means a person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity authorized under and by virtue of a contract with the City to collect curbside residential recyclable material in the City. (b) Designated recycling collection location means the place or area along or upon City right-of-way for the deposit for pickup of recyclable materials or as otherwise designated in the contract between the City and the authorized recycling contractor. (c) Recyclable material means those materials that the City of Jacksonville has designated to be diverted or removed from the solid waste stream. They include but are not limited to newspapers, magazines, catalogs, paper bags, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper, glass, aluminum cans, certain plastics, metal and bi-metal cans, white goods and other materials that can beneficially be recycled. (d) Recycling means any process by which solid waste or materials which would otherwise become solid waste are collected, separated or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products. (e) Recovered materials means metal, paper, glass, plastic, textile, or rubber materials that have known recycling potential, can be feasibly recycled, and have been diverted and source separated or have been removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, or reuse as raw materials, whether or not the materials require subsequent processing or separation from each other, but does not include materials destined for any use that constitutes disposal. Recovered materials as described above are not solid waste. (f) Resident means a person residing in a residential unit. (g) Residential unit means a residential building or structure or a portion thereof, or a combination of residential buildings or structures, or portions thereof, which are capable of occupancy or are occupied by one or more persons as a dwelling unit. A single-family dwelling is one residential unit. A duplex is two residential units. A triplex is three residential units. A quadriplex is four residential units. (h) Solid waste means sludge unregulated under the federal Clean Water Act or Clean Air Act, sludge from a waste treatment works, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or garbage, rubbish, refuse, special waste, or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural, or governmental operations. Recovered materials as defined in subsection (e) of this Section are not solid waste. (i) Person has the meaning given to it in Section 2.101 (g), Ordinance Code of the City of Jacksonville and in addition includes any officer, employee, agent, department or instrumentality of the Federal Government, any state, municipality, or political subdivision of the State, or of any foreign government. (Ord. 89-1092-541, § 1; Ord. 91-321-129, § 2; Ord. 94-144-121, § 12)