[Ord. 304, 3/19/2012, § 1[1]]
This Chapter shall be known as the "Lower Heidelberg Township
municipal waste and recycling Ordinance."
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded former
Chapter 11, Garbage, refuse and recycling, adopted 11/15/2004 by Ord.
240, as amended.
[Ord. 304, 3/19/2012, § 1]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context:
Act 101 of 1988, the Pennsylvania municipal waste Planning,
recycling and waste Reduction Act (35 P.S. §§ 4000.101
through 4000.1904), as amended.
Clean, non-aerosol and empty all-aluminum beverage and food
containers.
The residue resulting from the burning of wood, coal, coke
or other combustible materials.
Empty food or beverage containers consisting of steel and
aluminum.
Any discarded items that are of a size such that they cannot
be placed in a standard-size municipal refuse container. Bulky rubbish
includes discarded furniture and large household appliances such as
refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, dryers, bathtubs, sinks,
and commodes. Bulky rubbish shall not include construction debris,
hazardous materials, automotive parts, tires, leaves, grass clippings
or other yard waste.
An establishment engaged in nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including, but not limited to, stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
[Added by Ord. No. 355,
3/19/2018]
Events sponsored in whole or in part by a municipality, or
conducted within a municipality and sponsored privately, which include,
but are not limited to, fairs, bazaars, socials, picnics and organized
sporting events that will be attended by 200 or more individuals per
day.
[Added by Ord. No. 355,
3/19/2018]
Customary, nonhazardous waste building materials resulting
from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition operations.
The person with whom the Township enters into a contract
with the Township to provide municipal waste and recycling collection,
transportation, and disposal services, including said contractor's
employees.
Structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid
parallel furrows and ridges.
A room or group of rooms located within a structure and forming
a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended
to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating for the exclusive
use of the occupant(s) thereof.
Clear, green or brown glass bottles and jars. Expressly excluded
from this definition of "glass" is blue glass, lead crystal, porcelain,
ceramic products, tempered or plate glass (including window glass),
and fluorescent and incandescent lighting bulbs.
All white paper, bond paper and computer paper used in municipal
establishments and dwelling units.
An establishment engaged in manufacturing or processing,
including, but not limited to, factories, foundries, mills, processing
plants, refineries, mines and slaughterhouses.
[Added by Ord. No. 355,
3/19/2018]
An establishment engaged in service, including, but not limited
to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools and universities.
[Added by Ord. No. 355,
3/19/2018]
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings and
similar material, but not including grass clippings.
Printed periodicals containing news, opinions, public interest
and advertisements, and sales and marketing brochures distributed
periodically, other than those advertisements included in newspapers.
Newspapers, magazines, catalogs, high-grade office paper,
corrugated paper, brown paper grocery bags, phone books, paperback
books, colored office paper, envelopes, and a minimal amount of junk
mail.
Those containers supplied and used by the property owners
for storage of municipal waste and/or recyclables until collection
by the contractor.
Any garbage, refuse, ashes, rubbish, industrial lunchroom
or office waste and other material, including solid, liquid, semisolid
or contained gaseous material, resulting from operation of residential,
municipal, commercial, institutional establishments and from community
activities, and any sludge not meeting the definition of "residual
or hazardous waste" in the Solid Waste Management Act of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania[1] from a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply
treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant or air pollution control
facility.
Paper of the type commonly referred to as "newsprint" and
distributed at fixed intervals, having printed thereon news and opinions,
containing advertisements and other matters of public interest. Expressly
excluded from this definition of "newspapers" are magazines and catalogs.
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipality, municipal authority, federal
government or agency, state institution or agency (including but not
limited to the Department of General Services and the State Public
School Building Authority), or any other legal entity whatsoever which
is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. In any provisions
of this Chapter 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 and clean consumer product containers made of polyethylene
terephthalate (PETE or No. 1) or high-density polyethylene (HDPE or
No. 2), including, but not limited to plastic bottles used as containers
for soda, milk and other consumer food products and for certain household
cleaning products and personal care products.
Those materials specified by the Township for mandatory separation
from municipal waste for collection, transportation, processing, disposal,
and marketing as part of a recycling program.
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of
metals, glass, paper, leaf waste, plastics and other materials that
would otherwise be disposed or processed as municipal waste (other
than through combustion) and creation and recovery of reusable materials
other than a fuel for the operation of energy.
All solid wastes except body wastes, including ashes, garbage
and/or rubbish, but excluding recyclable materials. Refuse shall not
include construction debris, bulky rubbish, leaf waste, grass clippings,
or any items which the Township deems to be hazardous.
Glass, metal, paper, wood or nonputrescible solid waste,
but shall exclude grass clippings, rocks, dirt and construction materials.
Materials that are required to be separated from municipal
waste at the point of origin for the purpose of recycling.
Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq.
