[Adopted 9-7-1967 as § 16-10
of the Revised General Ordinances]
This article is adopted pursuant to the authority granted by the New
Jersey Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act, the Mercer
County Recycling System, as set forth in Ordinance No. 88-33 passed by the
Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Mercer, State of New Jersey,
as amended by County Ordinance 89-19, and as may be further amended from time
to time, and as more fully set forth in the amendments to the Mercer County
Solid Waste Management Plan detailing its recycling plan.
The City of Trenton hereby adopts the Mercer County Recycling Program
as its official municipal recycling program.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Metal aluminum containers of the type commonly used for the packaging
of beverages and food products.
Those cans with side and bottom construction made of steel with top
construction made of aluminum, with the exception of bimetal containers used
for the packaging of nonfood or nonbeverage products.
Any clear, amber or green glass container of the type commonly used
for food or beverage products, but shall not include glass containers used
for nonfood or nonbeverage products, and shall not include light bulbs, plate
glass, safety glass, mirrored glass, ceramic or china.
Newspaper, associated inserts, magazines and corrugated cardboard.
Any polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and any high-density polyethylene
(HDPE) plastic container commonly used for beverages, and also includes other
plastic containers bearing the stamp "HDPE 2" on the bottom, but does not
include containers used for nonbeverage items.
Metal containers of the type commonly used for packaging of food
or beverage products, but does not include containers used for the packaging
of nonfood or nonbeverage products.
Groups of two or more cells connected together to furnish electric
current.
Alcoholic beverages, including beer or other malt beverages, liquor,
wine, vermouth and sparkling wine and nonalcoholic beverages, including milk,
fruit juice, mineral water, soda water and similar nonalcoholic carbonated
and noncarbonated drinks intended for human consumption.
Those businesses which constitute wholesale, retail or service establishments
such as restaurants, stores, markets, theatres, hotels, warehouses and offices.
Corrugated containers having liners of either test liner, jute or
kraft.
The Mercer County collection programs as more fully described in
the Mercer County Recycling Plan and amendments.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, unless the
context indicates otherwise.
Plants used as ground cover in lawns and landscape applications and
clippings from such applications.
The Mercer County Improvement Authority.
Those businesses which include manufacturing, industrial, research
and development entities.
Those entities constituting schools, hospitals, research institutions
and public entities.
All weekly, monthly or other consumer periodicals and glossy newspaper
inserts.
Any building or structure containing two or more independent housing
units not receiving municipal curbside waste disposal services prior to January
1, 1990, in those municipalities which provide directly by contract for its
own waste disposal through some intermediate instrumentalities other than
the owner, such as a condominium association, homeowners' association, apartment
complex owner, superintendent or manager.
High-grade paper, fine paper, bond paper, offset paper, Xerographic
paper, mimeograph paper, duplicator paper and related types of cellulosic
material containing not less than 10% by weight or volume of noncellulosic
material such as laminates, binders, coatings or saturates.
All paper grades, inducing, but not limited to, newspaper, office
paper, duplicator paper and related types of cellulosic material containing
not less than 10% by weight or volume of noncellulosic material such as laminates,
binders, coatings or saturates.
Those materials which would otherwise become solid waste and which
may be collected, separated, processed and returned to the economic mainstream
in the form of raw material or products.
The activity whereby a secondary material introduced as a raw material
into a process in which it is transformed into a new product in such a manner
that its original identity is essentially lost.
The New Jersey Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling
Act, P.L. 1987, Chapter 102, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.1 et seq. as amended.[1]
Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials resulting from industrial,
commercial or agricultural operations, and from domestic and community activities,
and shall include all other waste materials including liquids, except for
solid animal and vegetable waste collected by swine producers licensed by
the State Department of Agriculture to collect, prepare and feed such wastes
to swine on their own farms.
The act of segregating recyclable materials from residential, commercial
and institutional solid waste by the generator thereof for the purpose of
collection, disposition and recycling.
A continuous solid or pneumatic rubber cushion encircling a wheel,
usually consisting, when pneumatic, of an external rubber and fabric cover
that contains and protects from injury an air-filled inner tube or area for
use on a motor vehicle.
Refined petroleum from motor vehicles, lawn mowers or other machinery
which can be re-refined into petroleum products.
Refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers and other appliances of
steel construction.
[1]
Editor's Note: Repealed by L. 2002, c. 128. See now N.J.S.A. 13:1E-213
et seq., the Clean Communities and Recycling Grant Act.
A.Â
All residents, including residents of multifamily complexes,
shall recycle or cause to be recycled the following categories of recyclable
materials:
(1)Â
Acceptable paper.
(2)Â
Acceptable glass containers.
(3)Â
Acceptable aluminum containers.
(4)Â
Acceptable plastic containers.
(5)Â
Acceptable tin-plate steel containers.
(6)Â
Acceptable bimetal containers.
(7)Â
Tires.
(8)Â
Vehicle batteries.
(9)Â
White goods.
(10)Â
Leaves.
(11)Â
Grass.
(12)Â
Used motor oil.
(13)Â
Ferrous automotive scrap.
(14)Â
Batteries.
B.Â
All residents, including residents of multifamily complexes,
shall separate the following items on designated recycling collection days,
or in collection containers provided for recycling, and such additional days
as designated by the Improvement Authority: acceptable paper, acceptable glass
containers, acceptable aluminum containers, acceptable plastic containers,
acceptable tin-plate steel containers and acceptable bimetal containers. Private
contractors servicing multifamily complexes within the City shall collect
for recycling the same materials collected by the Improvement Authority.
C.Â
All residents, including residents of multifamily complexes,
shall recycle tires, vehicle batteries, white goods, leaves, grass, used motor
oil and ferrous automotive scrap and batteries in the manner prescribed by
the Department of Public Works. The Recycling Coordinator shall advise residents
not less than once every six months of the manner in which these items are
to be recycled.
D.Â
The landlord, building owner, property manager and/or
private association of multifamily complexes shall be jointly responsible
to ensure that recycling collection services are provided to residents of
their complexes and that sufficient space is provided for the collection and
storage of recyclable materials designated for collection.
E.Â
The landlord, building owner, property manager and/or
private association of multifamily complexes shall be jointly responsible
for informing both current and new residents, at a minimum annually, of the
manner, time and place for collection of recyclable materials.
F.Â
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit residents
from donating or selling designated recyclable materials to any person, whether
operating for profit or not-for-profit, provided that the receiving person
may not perform curbside collection of designated recyclable materials unless
authorized by the Improvement Authority to do so.
A.Â
All commercial, industrial and institutional establishments
shall recycle, or cause to be recycled, the following categories of recyclables:
(1)Â
Acceptable paper.
(2)Â
Acceptable glass containers.
(3)Â
Acceptable aluminum containers.
(4)Â
Acceptable plastic containers.
(5)Â
Acceptable tin-plate steel containers.
(6)Â
Acceptable bimetal containers.
(7)Â
Tires.
(8)Â
Vehicle batteries.
(9)Â
White goods.
(10)Â
Leaves.
(11)Â
Grass.
(12)Â
Used motor oil.
(13)Â
Ferrous automotive scrap.
(14)Â
Batteries.
B.Â
The Director of the Department of Public Works shall
have the right to exempt persons occupying commercial and institutional premises
from the source separation requirements of this section if those persons have
otherwise provided for the recycling of recyclable materials designated in
the recycling plan from solid waste generated at those premises.
C.Â
The Director of the Department of Recreation, Natural
Resources and Culture shall provide for the collection and recycling of designated
materials in all public parks.
D.Â
The Director of the Department of Public Works shall
provide for the collection and recycling of designated materials in all municipal
public buildings.
A.Â
All recyclable materials placed at the curb or street
side or in designated dropoff areas in multifamily complexes for collection
by the Improvement Authority shall be considered the sole property of the
Improvement Authority.
B.Â
All recyclable materials collected from multifamily complexes
by private contractors shall be considered the sole property of the private
contractor.
Private contractors providing recycling service to multifamily complexes
shall provide monthly reports to the Director of the Department of Public
Works showing the total tonnages recycled from multifamily complexes.
The City shall enter into no contract for solid waste collection and/or
disposal unless the Director of the Department of Public Works certifies that
the contract is consistent with this article and with the recycling plan.
A.Â
All residents, including residents of multifamily complexes,
shall source-separate leaves from solid waste generated at those premises,
and, unless such leaves are stored for recycling, composting or mulching by
the generator, shall place the leaves for collection in the manner provided
below.
B.Â
The Director of the Department of Public Works shall
collect leaves generated from residential premises from September 1 to December
31 of each year. The Director of the Department of Public Works shall dispose
of all leaves so collected in a manner consistent with the recycling plan.
The Director of the Department of Public Works shall accept tires generated
from residential premises at 500 Brunswick Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey. The
Director of the Department of Public Works shall dispose of all tires so collected
in a manner consistent with the recycling plan.
A.Â
The Recycling Coordinator, at least once every six months,
shall notify all persons occupying residential, commercial and institutional
premises within these municipal boundaries of recycling opportunities, collection
schedules, the source-separation requirements of this article and of the recycling
plan and other aspects of recycling.
B.Â
The Director of the Department of Public Works, at least
once annually, shall inform the Improvement Authority, in writing, of the
manner in which such notification was given.
A.Â
At least once every 36 months after January 21, 1994,
the Planning Board shall conduct a review and make necessary revisions to
the Master Plan and development regulations adopted pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1
et seq.,[1] which revisions shall reflect changes in state, county and City
policies and objectives concerning the collection, disposition and recycling
of designated recycling materials.
B.Â
Any revisions of the Master Plan made pursuant to this
section shall include provisions for the collection, disposition and recycling
of recyclable materials designated in this article and for the collection,
disposition and recycling of designated recyclable materials within any development
proposal for the construction of 50 or more units of single-family housing
or 25 or more units of multifamily housing and any commercial or industrial
development proposal for the utilization of 1,000 square feet or more of land.
C.Â
The Director of the Department of Housing and Economic
Development shall notify all commercial, industrial and institutional establishments
making application to the Planning Board and/or Zoning Board of Adjustment
of the requirements of the recycling plan and of this article.
All construction permits, demolition permits and road opening permits
shall specify the quantity of materials to be recycled, where they will be
taken and how they will be handled.
The Mercer County Improvement Authority shall be responsible for the
enforcement of this article.
A.Â
Any resident of this City who is found to have violated
the provisions of this article shall be subject to the following procedures
and penalties:
(1)Â
Three warnings with cessation in collection of garbage
containing recyclable materials until recyclables are removed from garbage;
thereafter
B.Â
Any commercial, industrial or institutional establishment
which is found to have violated the provisions of this article shall be subject
to the following procedures and penalties:
(1)Â
Three warnings with cessation in collection of garbage
containing recyclable materials until recyclables are removed from garbage;
thereafter
