This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Township
of Caln Municipal Waste Collection, Recycling and Source Separation
Ordinance."
As used in this chapter the following terms shall have the meaning
indicated herein:
Empty one-hundred-percent aluminum beverage and food containers.
All residues from coal, wood or other fuel consumption.
Empty food or beverage containers consisting of ferrous sides
and bottom and aluminum top.
Large items, consistent with a residential property such
as chairs, sofas, tables, white goods, including dishwashers, hot
water heaters and other materials too large for disposal in a normal
trash container. "Bulk trash" shall not include refrigerators, air
conditioners and any item which contains chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs,
Freon), unless the Freon has been properly removed and the item tagged.
"Bulk trash" does not include tires and any household hazardous waste
materials (old paints, gasoline, etc.), as the term hazardous waste
is defined by applicable federal, state and county environmental protection
laws and regulations. All white goods must be properly recycled.
The duly adopted plan and all amendments thereto, as adopted
by the Chester County Board of Commissioners pursuant to Act 97 and
Act 101.[1]
A living tree which has been cut down and used within a home
for a decoration during the holiday season. Not an artificial tree.
Empty bottles, jars, food or beverage containers made of
clear transparent glass. Expressly excluded are non-container glass,
plate glass, blue, green, or brown glass, porcelain and ceramic products.
Empty bottles, jars, food or beverage containers made of
green, brown, or other colored glass.
All properties used for industrial or commercial purposes,
including apartment buildings or multiple-dwelling buildings containing
more than four dwelling units and residential dwelling units built
over storefront commercial businesses.
Solid waste resulting from the construction or demolition
of buildings and other structures, including but not limited to wood,
plaster, metals, asphalt substances, bricks, block and unsegregated
concrete. The term also includes dredging waste. Construction/demolition
waste shall not be considered municipal waste.
A facility which processes or acts upon solid waste so as
to dispose of the material, such as a composting facility, and incinerator,
a resource recovery plant, a waste-to-energy facility, or a sanitary
landfill.
An occupied single- or multifamily dwelling where the units
are individually owned or leased and used as a residence.
The official designated herein or otherwise charged with
the responsibilities of administering this chapter, or the officer's
authorized representative.
All table, animal and vegetable waste resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods.
Any person who generates leaf waste, recyclable materials
or municipal waste.
Bottles and jars made of clear, green or brown glass. Expressly
excluded are non-container glass, plate glass, blue glass and porcelain
and ceramic products.
Computer paper and office stationery but not including newsprint
and corrugated paper.
All properties used for institutional uses such as but not
limited to educational uses, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted-living
facilities, religious uses, health care uses, and other similar uses.
Leaves, but excluding garden residues, shrubbery, tree trimmings
or similar materials and grass clippings.
Bulk mail, magazines, mixed office paper, catalogs and cereal
boxes and the like (without inside packaging).
A single incident of failure by the contractor to collect
municipal solid waste or recyclable materials placed at the approved
collection area on the day and time designated for collection. A determination
of a missed collection shall be in the sole judgment of the Township
based on information received from Township residents.
An apartment building or multifamily dwelling which contains
more than four dwelling units and residential dwelling units located
in the same building as a commercial business.
All properties used for municipal or other governmental purposes.
Any garbage, refuse and other material, including solid,
liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from the
operation of a dwelling unit not meeting the definitions of residual
or hazardous waste in the Solid Waste Management Act.[2] The term does not include recyclable materials.
Any individual collecting or transporting municipal waste,
bulk trash, recyclable materials, leaf waste and/or yard waste for
owners or occupants of property in the Township, and any commercial
properties or institutional establishment within the Township which
generates municipal waste or recyclable materials and uses its own
employees and equipment for the collection or transportation of municipal
waste or recyclable materials.
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.
Any resident, individual, partnership, association, corporation,
institution, cooperative enterprise, trust, municipal authority, federal
government or agency, commonwealth of Pennsylvania institution or
agency, or any legal entity whatsoever which is recognized by law
as a subject of rights and duties.
All containers made of plastic, including those marked with
Nos. 1 through 7 recycling symbols.
A receptacle or cart or watertight bag made of metal, plastic
or other substantial material, tight-fitting as to prevent the spillage
of its contents and remain waterproof.
Those materials which may be processed or refabricated for
re-use and which are specified by the Township for separation from
the regular municipal waste. Such materials may include, but are not
be limited to, aluminum products, ferrous containers, bimetal containers,
glass containers, newspapers, magazines, cardboard and periodicals,
plastic containers (Nos. 1 through 7), Christmas trees, and white
goods.
Garbage, paper, ashes, trash, colored glass and rubbish.
Any person who owns, leases or occupies a dwelling unit located
in the Township for use as a residence.
Any occupied single or multifamily dwelling which contains
four or less dwelling units and is not located in a building with
a commercial use.
A recycling process in which recyclable materials are mixed
together with no sorting required by individual recyclers.
The separation of recyclable materials from municipal waste
at the point of origin for the purpose of recycling.
A public or private road in Caln Township, including any
road in a development whether or not it has been accepted for dedication.
The Township of Caln, a Township of the First Class, located
within the County of Chester, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Wheeled cart up to 95 gallons of capacity made of high-density
polyethylene or similar material used for the collection of municipal
waste or recyclable materials. The cart includes a hinged molded lid
and is able to be lifted by an automated collection vehicle for direct
discharge into the collection vehicle.
Metal appliances such as washers, dryers and stoves. Refrigerators
and freezers may also be collected if Freon has been removed from
the item (item must be marked that Freon has been removed properly)
or arrangements have been made by the customer to have the Freon removed
by the hauler.
Grass clippings, garden residue, tree trimmings, chipped
shrubbery, and other vegetative material.
A facility that is used to compost leaf waste, or leaf waste
and grass clippings, garden residue, tree trimmings, chipped shrubbery,
and other vegetative material.
