A. Franchisee means a person granted a franchise by this chapter, including that person’s employees, agents and subcontractors.

B. Generator or producer means a person who generates and produces solid waste as a result of that person’s household, business, agricultural, or governmental activities. Generator or producer does not include any third party who transports solid waste, without having generated or produced it.

C. Hazardous waste means any waste defined as hazardous waste by Federal or Oregon law. Conditionally exempt hazardous waste is waste generated in quantities below the threshold adopted by the Environmental Quality Commission under the terms of ORS 466.020.

D. Resource recovery means the process of obtaining useful material or energy resources from solid waste, including reuse, recycling, and other materials recovery or energy recovery of or from solid waste.

E. Service means the collection, transportation or disposal of or resource recovery from solid waste within the City of Bend.

F. Solid waste means all putrescible and nonputrescible wastes including, without limitation, garbage, rubbish, refuse, trash, ashes or swill, newsprint or waste paper, corrugated paper or cardboard, grass clippings, compost, residential, commercial, industrial, governmental or institutional wastes, discarded home or industrial appliances, equipment or furniture, vehicle parts or tires, vegetable or animal wastes, infectious waste as defined by ORS 459.387, food waste and other wastes.

G. Solid waste management means the prevention of or reduction of solid waste; management of service; and facilities and equipment necessary or convenient to those activities.

H. Waste means solid waste and any other material that is no longer directly usable by the source, generator or producer of the material, which material is to be disposed of or to be resource recovered by another person.