[Ord. 175-2014, 8/13/2014, § 210-101]
This Part shall be known and may be cited as the "Honey Brook
Township Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Recycling Ordinance."
[Ord. 175-2014, 8/13/2014, § 210-102]
This Part is intended to be an integral part of an overall system
designed to facilitate mandatory recycling and ensure Township compliance
with the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act
of July 8, 1988 (P.L. 528, No. 101), ("Pennsylvania Act 101").
[Ord. 175-2014, 8/13/2014, § 210-103]
As used in this Part the following terms shall have the meaning
indicated.
Chester County Solid Waste Authority.
The Board of Supervisors of Honey Brook Township.
All waste materials too large for collection in ordinary
containers. Examples of bulk waste include: furniture, appliances,
carpeting and similar items. Bulk waste shall not consist of any items
that may be packaged and disposed of using regular trash collection
procedures.
Aluminum cans (i.e., soda), tin (steel) cans, bimetal; all
food cans (i.e., vegetables, fruit, pet food, juice, coffee, etc.,
including large economy size), aluminum pie tins and foil; all items
must be rinsed and cleared.
Any establishment engaged in a nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business including, but not limited to, stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers, and theaters. Multi-family dwellings,
town homes, mobile home parks, hotels, motels, mixed-use properties
(combined business/residential on a single parcel) and farms which
use commercial dumpsters shall be considered commercial establishments.
Does not include properties where primary permitted use is residential
and accessory use is commercial (i.e., home occupations). Multiple
dwelling residential buildings, including residential units over store
front commercial business, containing more than four dwelling units,
shall be treated as commercial properties.
Church, school, civic, service group, municipal functions,
and all other such functions conducted within Honey Brook Township
and sponsored privately, which include, but are not limited to, fairs,
bazaars, socials, picnics, and organized sporting events that will
be attended by 25 or more individuals per day.
A process involving the microbial decomposition of organic
matter.
Structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid
parallel furrows and ridges (i.e., cardboard).
The scheduled collection and transportation of recyclable
materials placed at the curb-line or other area designated by the
collector.
The owner of any residential, commercial, industrial, or
institutional property located within the Township.
A facility which processes or acts upon solid waste so as
to dispose of the material, such as a composting facility, an incinerator,
a resource recovery plant, a recycling processing facility, a waste-to-energy
facility or a sanitary landfill.
Those specified locations, staffed or unstaffed, where recyclable
materials may be taken at specified times.
An occupied single or multi-family structure having up to,
and including, four dwelling units per structure, or each unit in
a multi-family structure if the units are individually owned with
a separate entrance onto a public or approved private street.
The official designated herein or otherwise charged with
the responsibilities of administering this Part, or the official authorized
representative.
Any number of continuous lots comprising, in the aggregate,
five or more acres under common control by way of ownership or lease,
used in whole or in part for agricultural purposes including, without
limitation, the growing of crops or the keeping of farm animals, including
without limitation, cattle, horses, goats, sheep, alpacas, or maintained
in anticipation of farm use as set forth herein.
Bottles and jars made of clear or colored glass. Expressly
excluded are non-container glass, mirrors, automobile glass, dishware,
plate glass, crystal, light bulbs and porcelain and ceramic products.
All white paper, bond paper, and computer paper used in commercial,
industrial, institutional and municipal establishments.
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.
Includes, but not be limited to, automotive, truck and industrial
batteries that contain lead.
Leaves from trees, bushes, and other plants, garden residue,
chipped shrubbery and tree trimmings, but not including grass clippings.
Glossy publications including catalogs.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom, or office waste
and any other material including solid waste, liquid, semisolid or
contained gaseous materials resulting from the operation of residential,
municipal, commercial, industrial, 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, industrial, or institutional water supply
treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, or air pollution control
facilities (Pennsylvania Act 101, § 103), but excluding
human body waste, debris from household renovations, whether interior
or exterior, dirt, rock, lead pipes, leaf waste, hazardous wastes,
and recyclable items as defined herein.
Any person registered in Honey Brook Township collecting
or transporting municipal waste or recyclable materials for owners
or occupants of property in Honey Brook Township, and any business
or institution within Honey Brook 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. Municipal waste collectors must be registered by Honey
Brook Township and authorized by the State of Pennsylvania.
All 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 including
glossy inserts. Expressly excluded is junk mail included with newspapers.
An individual, 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.
Bottle and jar containers only (i.e., milk, water, soda,
detergent, shampoo). Rinse and crush. Excluded are motor oil bottles,
flowers, pens, plastic wrap and Styrofoam.
Source-separated recyclable materials, including materials
listed in § 1501 of Act 101 and materials identified by
the Township to be recycled. Such materials may include, but not be
limited to: corrugated cardboard, aluminum products, hi-metal, glass,
and plastic containers, newspapers, paper, magazines and periodicals
and leaf waste. The Township reserves the right to periodically update
the list of materials defined as recyclable.
See "dwelling unit."
The separation of recyclable materials from municipal waste
at the points of origin for the purpose of recycling.
The governmental jurisdiction and legal entity of the Township
of Honey Brook, County of Chester, Pennsylvania.
