[Ord. 1072, 11/8/2007, Art. I, § 1]
This Part shall be known as the "Shillington Borough Municipal
Solid Waste Recycling Ordinance."
[Ord. 1072, 11/8/2007, Art. I, § 2]
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The purpose of this Part is to provide for the health, safety and
welfare of the residents of the Borough of Shillington by regulating
the collection, storage, transportation, removal, dumping, deposit,
disposal, and recycling of solid waste by:
[Ord. 1072, 11/8/2007, Art. I, § 3]
The following words and phrases when in this Part shall have,
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given
to them in this section:
Clean, non-aerosol and empty all-aluminum beverage and food
containers.
Person, firm, or corporation registered with the Borough
of Shillington to handle municipal waste and recyclables in accordance
with the provisions of this Part.
The government jurisdiction and legal entity if the Borough
if Shillington, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Items of solid waste which due to their size, shape, or weight
cannot be collected as a part of the normal weekly municipal waste
collection and, therefore, require special handling: For example,
large household appliances such as stoves and refrigerators, plumbing
fixtures, furniture, large crates, tires, tools, machinery or parts
thereof, and similar items in size shall be considered bulky waste.
Any establishment engaged in a non-manufacturing or non-processing
business including, but not limited to stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers, and theaters.
Lumber, roofing material, sheathing, rubble, broken concrete,
macadam, plastic and brick, conduit, pipe, insulation, and other material
that result from a construction, demolition, or remodeling process.
Paper boxes constructed in a corrugated manner and used as
containers for business and consumer applications.
Any room or group of rooms located within a building and
forming a single habitable unit with facilities that are used or intended
to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating by one family.
An agreement entered into by the Borough of Shillington with
a private person or corporation for the collection and disposal of
all municipal waste and/or recyclables within the Borough of Shillington
to the extent provided by this Part and the agreement.
Plain, uncolored, or colored glass bottles and jars. Expressly
excluded from this definition of glass is blue glass, lead crystal,
porcelain, ceramic products, and tempered or plate glass.
Any person appropriately licensed by the State of Pennsylvania.
Any establishment engaging in manufacturing or processing
including, but not limited to, factories, foundries, mills, processing
plants, and refineries.
Any establishment engaged in service to persons including,
but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools,
and universities.
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, and
similar materials, but not including grass clippings.
Rental housing apartment buildings or apartment complexes
which have two or more dwelling units, and condominium associations
and homeowner associations of two or more dwelling units which are
established and organized in such a manner that the association provides
common services for the residents of the housing development. This
definition shall also include apartment buildings and apartment complexes
owned and operated by institutional establishments if the institutional
establishment charges a rental fee for the dwelling units.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom, or office waste
and any other material including solid waste, liquid, semi-solid,
or contained gaseous material resulting from the operation of residential,
municipal, commercial, or institutional establishments and from community
activities and any sludge not meeting the definition of residual or
hazardous waste in the Solid Waste Management Act from a municipal,
commercial, or institutional water supply treatment plant, waste water
treatment plant, or air pollution control facilities. (Pennsylvania
Act 101, § 103)
Paper of the type commonly referred to as newsprint and distributed
at fixed intervals, having printed thereon news and opinions and containing
advertisements and matters of public interest, excluding magazines.
Any individual, person, owner or motor carrier, partnership,
corporation, association, institution, cooperative enterprise, 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.
Empty and clean consumer product containers made of polyethylene
terephthalate (PET), polypropylene (PP), high-density polyethylene
(HDPE), and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) most commonly, but not
limited to, plastic bottles used as containers for soda, milk, and
other consumer food products, or for household cleaning products,
or for personal care products.
Those materials specified by the Borough of Shillington for
separation, collection, processing, recovery, or reuse as part of
a recycling program.
Municipal solid waste, as herein defined, that is generated
at a dwelling unit.
(See "dwelling unit.")
Any garbage, refuse, other discarded material, or other waste,
including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous materials
resulting from industrial, mining, and agricultural operations and
any sludge from an industrial, mining or agricultural water supply
treatment facility, waste water treatment facility or air pollution
control facility, provided that it is not hazardous. The term shall
not include coal refuse as defined in the Act of September 24, 1968
(P.L. 1040, No. 318), known as the Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act.
The term shall not include treatment sludge from coal mine drainage
treatment plants, disposal of which is being carried on pursuant to
and in compliance with a valid permit issued pursuant to the act of
June 22, 1937 (P.L. 1987, No. 394), known as the Clean Streams Law.
Any waste, including but not limited to, municipal, residual
or hazardous waste, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contains
gaseous materials. (Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act 97, § 103)
Clean, non-aerosol, and empty all-steel (ferrous metal) or
bimetal beverage and food containers.
Leaves, grass clippings, garden residue, tree trimmings,
chipped shrubbery and other vegetative materials.
