“Collection facility” means a center for the acceptance by donation, redemption, or purchase of recycling materials from the public.

“Collection facility – large” means a facility that occupies an area of more than five hundred square feet and/or includes permanent structures where the public may donate, redeem, or sell recyclable materials.

“Collection facility – small” means a facility that occupies an area of five hundred square feet or less where the public may donate, redeem, or sell recyclable materials and may include:

“Convenience zone” means an area within one-half-mile radius of a supermarket.

“Mobile recycling unit” means an automobile, truck, trailer or van, licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles which is used for the collection of recyclable materials, including bins, boxes, or containers transported by trucks, vans or trailers, and used for the collection of recyclable materials.

“Processing facility” means a building or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials to prepare either for efficient shipment, or to an end user’s specifications by means such as bailing, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning, and remanufacturing.

“Processing facility – heavy” means any processing facility other than a light processing facility.

“Processing facility – light” means facilities that occupy areas under forty-five thousand square feet of collection, processing and storage area, and average two outbound shipments per day. Light processing facilities are limited to bailing, briquetting, compacting, grinding, crushing, shredding and sorting of source separated recyclable materials sufficient to qualify as a certified processing facility. A light processing facility shall not shred, compact, or bale ferrous metals other than food or beverage containers.

“Recycling” or “recyclable material” means reusable domestic containers including, but not limited to metals, glass, plastic and paper which are intended for reuse, remanufacture, or reconstitution for the purpose of using in altered form. Recyclable material does not include reuse of hazardous materials.

“Recycling facility” means a center for the collection and/or processing of recyclable materials. A certified recycling facility or certified processor is certified by the California Department of Conservation as meeting the requirements of the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act of 1986. A recycling facility does not include storage containers located on a residential, commercial or manufacturing designated parcel used solely for the recycling of material generated on the parcel.

“Reverse vending machine” means an automated mechanical device which accepts at least one or more types of empty beverage containers including, but not limited to aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles, and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container’s redemption value as determined by the state. A reverse vending machine may sort and process containers mechanically; provided, that the entire process is enclosed within the machine. In order to accept and temporarily store all container types in a proportion commensurate with their relative redemption rates, and to meet the requirements of certification as a recycling facility, multiple grouping of reverse vending machines may be necessary. A bulk reverse vending machine is a reverse vending machine that is larger than fifty square feet, is designed to accept more than one container at a time and will pay by weight instead of by container.

“Supermarket” means a full-service, self-service retail store of at least twenty thousand square feet which sells a line of dry grocery, canned goods, or nonfood items and some perishable items. (Ord. 706 § 3 (Exh. A), 2019).