Chapter 13.24
SOLID WASTE
Sections:
13.24.050 Disposal through Thurston County system required.
13.24.010 Purpose and intent.
This chapter is enacted as an exercise of the city’s power to protect and preserve the public health, safety, and welfare. Its provisions shall be liberally construed to give full effect to the objectives and purposes for which it was enacted. This chapter is not enacted to create or otherwise establish or designate any particular class or group of persons who will or should be especially protected or benefited by the terms of this chapter. Nothing contained in this chapter is intended to be or shall be construed to create or form a basis for liability for the city, its officers, employees or agents for any injury or damage resulting from the failure of any person to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or by reason or in consequence of any act or omission to act in connection with the implementation or enforcement of this chapter by the city, its officers, employees, or agents.
(Ord. O2021-014, Added, 07/06/2021)
13.24.020 Definitions.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
“Disposal site” means the location where any final treatment, utilization, processing, or deposit of solid waste occurs.
“Solid waste” or “wastes” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, sewage sludge, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, and recyclable materials.
“Solid waste handling” means the management, storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, and final disposal of solid wastes, including the recovery and recycling of materials from solid wastes, the recovery of energy resources from solid wastes or the conversion of the energy in solid wastes to more useful forms or combinations thereof.
“System” means the comprehensive county-wide system or systems of solid waste handling, and any successor solid waste system or systems, established under Chapter 36.58 RCW and other state laws, which includes without limitation the operation and maintenance of the system disposal sites, the regulation of solid waste handling facilities under Title 15, Thurston County Code (TCC), the SWMP and the rules and regulations of the Board of Health, and the designation of system disposal sites for, and the method or methods of transfer and disposal of, all solid waste generated and collected in the system areas, as established, designated, identified or otherwise provided by the county.
“System disposal sites” means the county transfer stations, the county drop box facilities and such other sites designated from time to time by the county or the SWMP as disposal sites of the system.
(Ord. O2021-014, Added, 07/06/2021)
13.24.050 Disposal through Thurston County system required.
The Thurston County system for solid waste handling and disposal is hereby designated for the disposal of all solid waste generated and/or collected within the city. The city authorizes the county to designate disposal sites for the disposal of solid waste. No solid waste generated or collected within the city shall be diverted from the county’s designated disposal site(s) without the county’s prior approval. The designation of the county for solid waste disposal shall not otherwise affect the city’s programs for and control over solid waste collection, waste reduction and recycling.
(Ord. O2021-014, Added, 07/06/2021)