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1.2.21 Recycling bin/cart - A plastic bin with a capacity of approximately 18 gallons for dual stream
<br />recycling or a wheeled cart of approximately 96 gallons for single stream recycling furnished by the
<br />Contractor to each residential unit for use in the collection of recyclable materials.
<br />1.2.21.1 Residential Service Charge - The monthly per customer charge to be paid by City to Contractor
<br />as compensation for providing residential solid waste collection services and for providing either dual
<br />stream recycling collection services or single stream recycling collection services.
<br />1.2.22 Residential solid waste - Solid waste generated by a producer at a residential unit.
<br />1.2.23 Residential unit - A room or set of rooms suitable for residential use by a single family, including
<br />a single family dwelling, townhouse, apartment, or condominium unit that contains 4 or fewer units. A
<br />residential unit will be deemed occupied when either water or electric services are being supplied thereto.
<br />A townhouse, fourplex, duplex, or condominium dwelling, whether of single or multi-level construction,
<br />consisting of four or less contiguous or separate single family dwelling units, will be treated as a
<br />residential unit, except that each single-family dwelling within any such residential unit will be billed
<br />separately as a residential unit. Those residential units served by a container will not be included in this
<br />definition.
<br />1.2.24 Rubbish - Solid waste that is not readily decayable, including wood, wood products, grass cuttings,
<br />plants, leaves, paper, cardboard, cloth, leather, footwear, ashes, cinders, floor sweepings, glass, mineral or
<br />metallic materials, and all other waste materials other than bulky waste, construction debris, garbage,
<br />hazardous waste, stable matter, tree trimmings or yard waste.
<br />1.2.25 Solid waste - Garbage, rubbish, bulky waste, construction debris, stable matter, tree trimmings
<br />and yard waste.
<br />1.2.26 Stable matter - All manure and other waste matter normally accumulated in or about a stable, or
<br />any animal, livestock, or poultry enclosure, and resulting from the keeping of animals, poultry or
<br />livestock.
<br />1. 1.27 Unacceptable waste - Any and all waste that is either:
<br />A. Waste which is now or in the future prohibited from disposal at a sanitary landfill by state or
<br />federal laws or the regulations promulgated thereunder;
<br />B. hazardous waste, as defined herein;
<br />C. special waste, as defined by the laws of the United States or the State of Texas or the
<br />regulations promulgated thereunder;
<br />D. tires, concrete, and bulk petroleum or chemical products or by-products;
<br />E. septic tank pumping and grease and grit trap wastes;
<br />F. sludge waste, including water supply treatment plant sludges and stabilized and/or unstabilized
<br />sludges from municipal or industrial wastewater treatment plants;
<br />G. medical waste, including infectious or pathological waste from laboratories, research facilities,
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