Legal Documents of Sweetwater

The following substances are hereby prohibited from being deposited with solid waste collected by the city:

1. Flammable liquids, solids or gases, such as gasoline, benzene, alcohol or other similar substances;
2. Any material that would be hazardous or injurious to city employees and/or trash collectors or which could cause damage to collection equipment and/or facilities;
3. Hazardous waste as defined in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 66-212-104(8); and household hazardous waste as detailed in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 68-211-802(a)(7);
4. Construction waste consisting of materials from construction, demolition, remodeling, construction-site preparation, including but not limited to rocks, bricks, dirt, debris, fill plaster, guttering, and all types of scrap materials;
5. Human or animal excrement;
6. Hot materials such as ashes, cinders, etc.;
7. Infectious wastes including, but not limited to, those classified by the following:
   1. Isolation wastes. Wastes contaminated by patients who are isolated due to communicable disease as provided in the U.S. Center for Disease Control Guidelines for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals (July 1983).
   2. Cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated biological cultures and stocks of infectious agents, including specimen cultures from medical and pathological laboratories, cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories, waste from the production of biological, discarded lice and attenuated vaccines;
   3. Laboratory waste which has come into contact with cultures and stocks of etiologic agents or blood specimens. Such wastes includes, but is not limited to, culture dishes, blood specimen tubes, devices used to transfer, inoculate and mix cultures, paper and cloth which has come into contact with cultures and stock of etiologic agents;
   4. Human blood and blood products. Waste human blood and blood products such as serum, plasma, and other blood components;
   5. Pathological wastes. Pathological wastes, such as tissues, organs, body parts, and body fluids that are removed during surgery and autopsy;
   6. Discarded sharps. All discarded sharps (e.g. hypodermic needles, syringes, pasteur pipettes, broken glass, scalpel blades, etc.) used in patient care, medical research or industrial laboratories;
   7. Contaminated animal carcasses, body parts and bedding. Contaminated animal carcasses, body parts and bedding of animals that were intentionally exposed to pathogens in research, in the production of biological or in the in-vitro testing of pharmaceutical.
8. Human and/or animal remains.
9. Automobile, truck and equipment batteries and tires. (Ord. #675, Sept. 1995)