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Solid waste collection contractor shall mean the party (other than the city) that executed an exclusive franchise agreement with the city, and its affiliates, DBAs, and subcontractors that perform services on contractor's behalf. Source reduction and recycling element means the city's plan for meeting the requirements of California Integrated Waste Management Act. Source separated shall mean materials, including commingled recyclable materials, that have been separated or kept separate from the solid waste stream, at the point of generation, for the purpose of additional sorting or processing those materials for recycling or reuse in order to return them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 174O2.5(b)(4). For the purposes of this article, source -separated shall include separation of materials by the generator, property owner, property owner's employee, property manager, or property manager's employee into different containers for the purpose of collection such that source separated materials are separated from non -recyclable gray container waste or other solid waste for the purposes of collection and processing. Source separated blue container organic waste shall mean source separated organic waste that can be placed in a blue container that is limited to the collection of those organic wastes and non -organic recyclables as defined in Section 18982(a)(43), or as otherwise defined by Section 174O2(a)(26.7). Source separated blue container recyclable materials shall mean source separated non -organic recyclables and source separated blue container organic waste. Source separated brown container organic waste shall mean source separated organic waste that can be placed in a brown container that is specifically intended for the separate collection of organic waste by the generator, including food waste. Source separated green container organic waste shall mean source separated organic waste that can be placed in a green container that is specifically intended for the separate collection of organic waste by the generator, including food scraps, food soiled paper, compostable plastics (if directed by the city) and yard waste, and excluding source separated blue container organic waste, carpets, non-compostable paper, and textiles. Source separated recyclable materials shall mean source separated non -organic recyclables and source separated blue container organic waste. Supermarket shall mean a full -line, self-service retail store with gross annual sales of two million dollars ($2,000,000), or more, and which sells a line of dry grocery, canned goods, or nonfood items and some perishable items, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(71). Three -container system shall mean a collection system in which generators are required to source separate discarded materials into three streams: solid waste, source Ordinance No. NS-3017 Page 13 of 42