8.04.080 Solid waste handling service.
A. All persons accumulating garbage in the city shall place and accumulate garbage in garbage cans or garbage units, mobile toters, or detachable containers as required by this chapter. Except as provided in Section 8.04.040(C), all persons and properties within the city shall use the solid waste, recycle and yard waste system and service of the solid waste utility under contract with the collection company. All persons and occupied property shall be subject to and responsible for the minimum level of service and associated charges, whether or not such persons and property use the service.
B. It shall be unlawful to deposit, throw, or place any garbage in any land, alley, street or other public place, or to deposit, throw or place any garbage on any private property regardless of ownership, unless the garbage is placed in garbage cans, containers, or toters, the covers of which shall not be removed except when necessary for the depositing or removing of garbage. Boxes, small barrels, cartons, scraps of wooden crates and boxes, broken up household furniture and equipment, paper, hollowware and rubbish in general may be broken up or cut up and placed in garbage units, consistent with this chapter or as approved by the director.
C. Any garbage can when filled shall not weigh more than sixty-five pounds and shall be packed so that the contents thereof will dump out readily when the can is inverted. All garbage cans and garbage units shall be placed in convenient, accessible locations upon the ground level or ground floor and as near as practicable to the approximate rear of the building or near the alley, street or road at which collection trucks are to be loaded; all walks, paths and driveways to the place of loading shall have an overhead clearance of not less than fourteen feet. All garbage cans and garbage units shall be placed at the pickup point before 7:00 a.m. and removed from the pickup point as soon as possible after collection.
D. Any sixty-gallon mobile toter when filled shall not weigh more than seventy-five pounds and any ninety-gallon mobile toter not more than one hundred pounds, or as otherwise regulated by the director, and shall be so packed that the contents thereof will dump out readily. All mobile toters shall be placed at curbside or alley before 7:00 a.m. and removed from the curb or alley as soon as possible after collection, but no later than 7:00 p.m.
E. Dangerous and Other Waste.
1. No hot ashes or other hot material, dirt, sand, rocks, gasoline, solvents, oil, paint, medical waste or sharps, dangerous or hazardous wastes shall be placed in any garbage can, garbage unit, detachable container or mobile toter for collection or removal. All kitchen, table and cooking waste, before being deposited in garbage cans, garbage units, detachable containers, or mobile toters, shall be drained and wrapped in paper or other material in such a manner as to prevent as nearly as possible moisture from such garbage from coming in contact with sides or bottoms of the containers.
2. As used in this section “dangerous or hazardous wastes” means any solid waste designated as dangerous or hazardous waste by the State Department of Ecology, and such wastes shall be disposed of consistent with Department of Ecology rules and regulations.
F. When use of garbage cans is allowed or required, sufficient garbage cans must be provided for the collection of all garbage as defined in this chapter. Worn out and improper cans shall be discarded.
G. Specified certain mobile toters shall be provided by the collection company, at the customers expense, for the health, safety, convenience, and general welfare of the residences and their occupants. All mobile toters provided by the collection company shall remain the property of the collection company. The containers shall not be damaged, destroyed or removed from the premises by any person. Markings and identification devices on the containers, except as placed or specifically permitted by the collection company, are expressly prohibited and shall be regarded as damage to the containers.
H. It shall be unlawful, except as authorized by the owner, collection company or the city, to deposit any garbage or other material in any garbage can, garbage unit, detachable container or mobile toter or to remove the covers therefrom. The covers shall be securely placed on each can, toter or unit at all times, except when it is necessary to remove same for deposit or at times of collection.
I. Yard waste shall be deposited in containers provided or approved by collection companies or by the director, and disposed of as provided for in this chapter or authorized by the director. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit persons from composting yard waste on property owned or leased by such persons. Compost facilities shall be operated and maintained consistent with other applicable law and regulation. (Ord. 831 § 2, 1997).