The accumulation, collection, removal and disposal of refuse
must be controlled by this municipality for the protection of the
public health, safety and welfare. It is consequently found and declared
that:
A.
This municipality is authorized by law to regulate the disposition
of refuse generated within its boundaries, to collect a charge therefor
and to license refuse collectors.
B.
This municipality is also authorized by C.G.S. § 22a-220a
to designate the area where refuse generated within its boundaries
shall be disposed.
C.
This municipality has executed the municipal contract requiring it
to cause all processible solid waste, except for recyclable materials,
OBW and SHW, generated within its boundaries to be delivered to the
Bridgeport System.
D.
The public health, safety and welfare of this municipality will be
best served by requiring the delivery of processible solid waste directly
to the Bridgeport Resource Recovery System or a transfer station,
as the Board of Selectmen may determine, for processing by the Bridgeport
Resource Recovery System into products which have an economic value.
E.
The enactment of this chapter is in furtherance of this municipality's
approved regional Solid Waste Management Plan.
The following terms shall have the following meanings:
The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority established
pursuant to Chapter 361b of the Connecticut General Statutes, Revision
of 1958, as amended.[1]
The system for the processing of solid waste and the recovery
of products therefrom constructed by the Authority pursuant to the
municipal contract.
Includes waste from the preparation, cooking and consumption
of food, condemned food products and all refuse from the handling,
storage, preparation and sale of produce originating primarily in
commercial kitchens, stores, restaurants, food markets and factories.
The Director of Public Works of this municipality.
That amount of money to be charged for each ton of processible
solid waste delivered to the Bridgeport System as established by the
terms of the municipal contract.
Solid and liquid wastes in the following classifications:
Explosives.
Pathogenic or pathological wastes.
Radioactive wastes.
Cleaning fluids, acids, poisons or other chemical wastes which
either create an immediate safety hazard to persons disposing of the
waste or which, by virtue of their chemistry and/or the method of
disposal, present a threat to the quality of ground- or surface waters.
Hospital operating-room wastes.
Includes waste from the preparation, cooking and consumption
of products used primarily in private homes.
Includes putrescible and nonputrescible matter from the manufacture,
fabrication or processing of any product.
The firm which has contracted with the Town of Bethany to
collect residential processible solid waste and/or recyclable materials
and/or hazardous waste.
The Municipal Solid Waste Management Services Contract between
this municipality and the Authority, dated as of November 1, 1991.
The Town of Bethany.
White goods and other unwanted or discarded materials which:
Cannot be processed in the facility because of size or noncombustibility;
Would not constitute special handling waste;
May be disposed of in a landfill holding a permit issued by
the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection under C.G.S.
§ 22a-209 et seq. of its regulations or any successor provision;
and
Are not too large to be deposited and stored at a transfer station,
or transported to a landfill, in the manner contemplated in the station
plan of operations.
That refuse acceptable to the Bridgeport System pursuant
to the municipal contract.
The container required by the Director to be used into which
all recyclable materials must be placed.
Materials suitable for recycling as provided under Public
Act 87-544,[2] including glass and metal food containers, office paper,
lead acid batteries, scrap metal, corrugated cardboard, newspaper,
used motor oil and leaves and other materials identified by this municipality
as suitable for recycling.
A method of reducing the volume of wastes which results in
the separation, extraction, refinement or utilization of materials,
including but not limited to aluminum or other metal cans and products,
glass, high-grade paper, newsprint and cardboard, which may then be
marketed or delivered for reuse in manufacturing or other processes.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including
household garbage, rubbish, ashes, bulky wastes and solid commercial
and industrial refuse. It shall not include hazardous wastes.
Includes any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business
of collecting and transporting commercial, household or industrial
refuse for hire within this municipality.
Hazardous waste.
Dirt, concrete and other nonburnable construction material and
demolition debris.
Large items of machinery and equipment, such as motor vehicles
and major components thereof (transmissions, rear ends, springs and
fenders), agricultural equipment, trailers and marine vessels and
any other item of waste exceeding six feet in any one of its dimensions
or being in whole or in part a solid mass, the solid mass portion
of which has dimensions such that a sphere with a diameter of eight
inches could be contained within such solid mass portion, including,
in the context of direct deliveries of the facility, OBW.
Explosives, ordnance materials, oil, sludges, highly inflammable
substances, hazardous chemicals, tires and other materials the acceptance
of which, in the judgment of Resco, reasonably exercised, is likely
to cause damage to or adversely affect the operation of the system,
constitute a threat to health or safety or violate or cause the violation
of any applicable federal, state or local law, regulation or judicial
or administrative decision or order.
That waste transfer facility designated by the Board of Selectmen.
A.
All refuse accumulated in this municipality shall be collected, conveyed
and disposed of by the Town of Bethany or its municipal collector
or by persons licensed by this municipality to perform such work and
only in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. No other person
shall collect, convey over any street or dispose of any refuse in
this municipality except upon complying with the other provisions
of this chapter and with any other applicable ordinances and regulations.
(1)
Any person using the system shall also comply with any rules established
by the company running the Bridgeport System and any rules established
by the Authority and the terms of the municipal contract.
(2)
The actual producers of refuse or the owners of premises in this
municipality upon which refuse has accumulated may personally collect,
convey and dispose of such refuse, provided that they are licensed.
(3)
Collectors of refuse licensed by a municipality which has executed
a municipal contract may deliver processible solid waste to the Bridgeport
System, upon identifying the source and amount of such refuse.
The Board of Selectmen may, by resolution, establish and from
time to time revise a schedule of fees and/or disposal charges for
use of the Bridgeport System (and any other system for waste disposal,
such as for recyclable material, OBW or SHW) and registration and
licensing of refuse collectors. Said fees or charges shall become
effective when they are approved and a copy of such schedule has been
filed with the Town Clerk.
A.
Provision for containers. The owner of each premises where refuse
is created or generated shall provide, at a suitable place upon such
premises, sufficient receptacles for receiving and holding such refuse
during the intervals between collections. Refuse containers shall
be maintained in good condition, free of holes and fissures, and shall
be equipped with securely fitting covers.
B.
Containers for commercial refuse. The standard container for commercial
refuse shall be a watertight, verminproof galvanized or plastic receptacle
with a tight lid of not over thirty-gallon capacity, except that commercial
establishments may provide for a large covered container designed
to be emptied into a refuse truck.
C.
Containers for household garbage. The standard unit of collection
for household garbage shall be twenty- and thirty-gallon containers.
Curbside collections shall be made once each week. The collections
shall be on a schedule approved by the Board of Selectmen. If the
homeowner shall require other than curbside pickup, the refuse collector
may meet this need, provided that the collector and the customer agree
on a rate to be paid by the customer and the customer ensures a safe
and clear passage to the containers.
D.
Containers for recyclables. The standard unit for collection of recyclables
shall be that which shall be designated by the Director.
The Board of Selectmen may establish by resolution a mandatory
or voluntary recycling program for residential, commercial and industrial
producers of solid waste. Such program shall, at a minimum, specify
material to be segregated from other solid waste, methods of segregation,
methods of collection and the delivery point of segregated materials
for recycling.
A.
Public places. No person shall place any refuse in any street, alley
or other public place or upon any private property, whether owned
by such person or not, within this municipality except in proper containers
or otherwise properly prepared for collection or under express approval
granted by the Director, nor shall any person throw or deposit any
refuse in any stream or other body of water.
B.
Accumulation of refuse. Any uncontainerized accumulation of refuse
on any premises is hereby declared to be a nuisance and is prohibited.
Failure to remove any accumulation of refuse within 10 days after
written notice, by certified mail, to remove the same shall be deemed
a violation of this chapter.
C.
Scattering of refuse. No person shall cast, place, sweep or deposit
anywhere within this municipality any refuse in such a manner that
it may be carried or deposited by the elements upon or in any street,
sidewalk, alley, sewer, parkway or other public place or into any
occupied premises.
D.
Hazardous wastes. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to place hazardous wastes or similarly dangerous substances into any
refuse container or to transport any such substance to the Bridgeport
System, the transfer station, if any, or any OBW landfill.
