[Ord. 2003-1, 4/8/2003, § 1]
This Part shall provide a mandatory recycling program and govern
all aspects of the collection, storage, transportation, processing
and disposal of Township solid waste in the Township. It contains
regulations applicable to haulers of municipal waste, collectors of
recyclables, individuals, commercial, Township and institutional establishments
and community activities.
[Ord. 2003-1, 4/8/2003, § 2]
A part to establish a program for the mandatory source separation
and separate collection of designated recyclable materials from residences
and properties receiving municipal waste collection services from
or on behalf of the Township, for recycling purposes; to prohibit
the disposal of designated recyclable materials into the conventional
municipal waste disposal system; to empower the Township to promulgate
and adopt reasonable rules and regulations, therefor, and to fix penalties
for violation thereof of this Part.
[Ord. 2003-1, 4/8/2003, § 3; as amended by Ord.
2014-10, 9/10/2014, Art. I]
1.
AGENT
ALUMINUM CANS
APPLICANT
AUTHORIZED COLLECTOR
BIMETALLIC CANS
COLLECTOR
COMMERCIAL
COMMINGLED RECYCLABLES
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
COMPOSTING
CORRUGATED PAPER
CURBSIDE COLLECTION
DEPARTMENT OR DEP
DISPOSAL
DISPOSAL AREA
GARBAGE
GLASS CONTAINERS
HAULER
INSTITUTIONAL
LANDLORD
LEAF WASTE
LICENSED HAULER
MAGAZINES
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING
MUNICIPAL
MUNICIPAL WASTE
MUNICIPAL WASTE LANDFILL
NEWSPAPER
PERSON
PLASTIC CONTAINERS
RECYCLABLE COLLECTION PERMITTEE
RECYCLABLES
RECYCLING
RECYCLING FACILITY
RESIDENTIAL
RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITY
RUBBISH
STEEL CANS
STORAGE
TOWNSHIP
TRANSPORTATION
WASTE
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
One who performs an act for his immediate family or for another
person gratuitously (without any form of monetary or material compensation
therefore).
Empty, all aluminum beverage and food containers.
A person desirous of being licensed as a hauler or of being
issued a recyclable collection permit, as the case may be.
A licensed hauler (as defined herein); a recyclable collection
permittee (as defined herein); or a person who, being so authorized
by the terms of this Part, removes municipal waste or recyclables
from his own premises, as owner of the building or commercial, Township
or institutional establishment or community activity conducted therein,
or as an agent (as defined herein) of another person.
Empty food or beverage containers consisting of both steel
and aluminum.
Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or public agency,
excluding nonprofit organizations or associations, who is engaged
in the collection and/or transportation of municipal waste and/or
source-separated recyclable materials.
Of or pertaining to any wholesale, retail, industrial, manufacturing,
transportation or financial or professional service or office enterprise,
business or establishment.
Recyclables mingled or blended together placed in the same
container.
An activity or event sponsored or organized by a public or
private nonprofit organization for recreational, educational, cultural
or civic purposes, which may be attended by members of the public,
whether or not an entrance or participation fee is charged therefor.
The process of the biological decomposition of organic solid
waste is biologically decomposed under controlled anaerobic or aerobic
conditions and yield a humus-like product.
Structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid
parallel furrows and ridges, of the type normally used to make packaging
cartons and boxes.
A method of collection of residentially generated recyclables
by which the owners or occupants of certain residential properties
may dispose of their recyclables by placing them at curbside at times
designated by the licensed haulers, for collection and removal by
an authorized collector thereof for delivery to a recycling center.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
The incineration, deposition, injection, dumping, spilling,
leaking or placing of municipal waste into or on the land or water
in a manner such that the municipal waste or a constituent thereof
enters the environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged to
the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any site, location, area, building, structure, transfer station
or premises to be used for municipal waste disposal.
All putrescible animal and vegetable matter resulting from
the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
All empty food and beverage jars or bottles, the product
being transparent or translucent (either clear, green or brown).
Any authorized collector.
Of or pertaining to any establishment engaged in service
to persons including, but not limited to, hospitals, group homes,
nursing homes, schools, universities, churches and social or fraternal
societies and organizations.
The owner of residential property or such owner's authorized
agent.
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, and
similar material, but not including grass clippings.
Any collector or hauler of vegetative waste, municipal waste
and/or source-separated recyclables possessing a current license issued
by the DEP.
Printed matter, also known as "periodicals," containing miscellaneous
written pieces published at fixed or varying intervals, printed on
gloss or chemically coated paper. Expressly excluded are newspapers
and all other paper products of any nature whatsoever.
A type of residential property either under single ownership
or organized as a condominium or cooperative form of housing, which
contains four or more dwelling units.
Of or pertaining to any office or other property under the
control of any branch or arm of the federal government of the United
States of America, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any political
subdivision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania including, but not
limited to, the Township, any counties, cities, boroughs, townships
and municipal authorities.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial, lunchroom or office waste
and other material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid or contained
gaseous material, resulting from the operation of residential, municipal,
commercial or institutional establishments or from community activities
and which are not classified as residual or hazardous waste. The term
does not include source-separated recyclable materials.
Any facility that is designed, operated or maintained for
the disposal of municipal waste, whether or not such facility possesses
a permit from the department under the Solid Waste Management Act,
35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq. The term shall not include any
facility that is used exclusively for disposal of construction/demolition
waste or sludge from sewage treatment plants or water supply treatment
plants.
Paper of the type commonly referred to as "newsprint" and
distributed at fixed or stated intervals, usually daily or weekly,
having printed thereon news and opinions and containing advertisements
and other matters of public interest. The term "newspaper" expressly
excludes, glossy advertising inserts, magazines, glossy or other chemically
coated paper, office paper, any other paper product of any nature.
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institutions,
cooperative, enterprise, municipality, municipal authority, federal
government or agency, state institution or agency, or any other legal
entity whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights
and duties. In any provision of this Part prescribing a fine, imprisonment
or penalty, or any combination of the foregoing, the term "person"
shall include the officers and directors of any corporation or other
legal entity having officers and directors.
Empty plastic food and beverage containers, the specific types of which are
PET (e.g., soft drink bottles) and HDPE (e.g., milk and water jugs,
detergent and shampoo bottles), to be designated by resolution of
the Township Supervisors.
A person registered with the Township to collect, transport,
and dispose of recyclables exclusively (and not municipal waste) for
persons other than himself, his immediate family, or persons for whom
he is acting as an agent, excluding a nonprofit organization or association.
Materials designated as recyclable in this Part or required
by the terms of this Part (or any amendment hereto) to be kept separate
from municipal waste and recycled.
The separation, collection, processing, recovery and sale
or reuse of metals, glass, paper, plastics and other materials which
would otherwise be disposed of as municipal waste.
A facility employing a technology that is a process that
separates or classifies municipal waste and creates or recovers reusable
materials that can be sold to or reused by a manufacturer as a substitute
for or a supplement to virgin raw materials. The term "recycling facility"
shall not mean transfer stations or landfills for solid waste nor
composting facilities or resource recovery facilities. The term does
not include:
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Any composting facility.
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Methane gas extraction from a municipal waste landfill.
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Any separation and collection center, dropoff point or collection
center for recycling, or any source separation or collection center
for composting leaf waste.
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Any facility including all units in the facility with a total
processing capacity of less than 50 tons per day.
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Of or pertaining to any dwelling unit used as a place of
human habitation and which is not commercial, municipal, institutional
or a community activity. Home occupations incidental to be residential
use within a building are considered "residential."
A processing facility that provides for the extraction and
utilization of materials or energy from municipal waste that is generated
off site, including, but not limited to, a facility that mechanically
extracts materials from municipal waste, a combustion facility that
converts the organic fraction of municipal waste to usable energy,
and any chemical and biological process that converts municipal waste
into a fuel product. The term also includes any facility for the combustion
of municipal waste that is generated off site, whether or not the
facility is operated to recover energy. The term does not include:
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Any composting facility.
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Methane gas extraction from a municipal waste landfill.
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Any separation and collection center, dropoff point or collection
center for recycling, or any source separation or collection center
for composting leaf waste.
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Any facility including all units in the facility with a total
processing capacity of less than 50 tons per day.
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Solid waste exclusive of garbage (e.g., nonrecyclable glass,
metal, paper or plastic) and non-combustible plant material, wood
or non-putrescible solid waste.
Empty food of beverage containers made of steel, tin-coated
steel or other ferrous metal food or beverage containers.
The containment of any municipal waste on a temporary basis
in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such municipal waste.
It shall be presumed that the containment of any municipal waste in
excess of one month constitutes disposal. This presumption can only
be overcome by clear convincing evidence to the contrary.
Williams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
The off-site removal of any municipal waste at any time after
generation thereof.
A material whose original purpose has been completed and
which is directed to a disposal or processing facility or is otherwise
disposed of. The term does not include source-separated recyclable
materials or material approved by DEP for beneficial use.
[Ord. 2003-1, 4/8/2003, § 4]
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person to store, dump, discard or deposit
or to permit the storage, dumping, discarding or depositing of, any
municipal waste or recyclables upon the surface of the ground or underground
within the Township, except in proper containers for purposes of storage
or collection, and except where the waste or recyclables are of such
size or shape as not to permit their being placed in such containers.
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump or deposit any municipal
waste or recyclables in any stream, body of water or on any public
right-of-way within the Township.
2.
Every owner of property or occupant thereof responsible for such
property a day-to-day operation or maintenance shall pick up and discard
in any appropriate receptacle any municipal waste, recyclables or
other debris deposited or accumulated on the sidewalk or gutter in
front of or adjacent to such property. All owners or operators of
commercial, industrial, institutional and Township establishments
in the Township shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent the
deposit and accumulation of debris in front of their premises, and
in furtherance of that end, may place appropriate waste containers
on the sidewalks in front of or adjacent to their premises at a point
which will not create a hazard to traffic or pedestrians. Any such
receptacles so placed shall be emptied on a regular basis and maintained
in a neat and clean appearance.
3.
Nothing contained herein shall prohibit a farmer from carrying out
the normal activities of his farming operation, including composting
and spreading of manure or other farm-produced agricultural waste,
provided such activities are conducted in accordance with all applicable
law, rules and regulations.
4.
Bulk containers shall not be permitted to overflow or to have waste
strewn or left about them on the ground. A violation of this provision
shall be deemed a violation of this Part by the person on whose property
the bulk container is located, if it is located on private property.
