[Ord. 482-90, 7/3/1990, Art. 1, § 1]
This Part shall be known as the "East Pennsboro Township Municipal
Solid Waste and Recycling Ordinance."
[Ord. 482-90, 7/3/1990, Art. 1, § 2]
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The purpose of this Part is to provide for the health, safety and
welfare of the residents of the Township of East Pennsboro by regulating
the collection, storage, transportation, removal, dumping, deposit,
disposal and recycling of solid waste by:
[Ord. 482-90, 7/3/1990, Art. 1, § 3]
The following words and phrases when used 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 licensed or contracted by the
Township of East Pennsboro to handle municipal waste and recyclables
in accordance with the provisions of this Part.
Items of solid waste which due to their size, shape or weight
can not 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 items.
Any establishment engaged in a nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business including, but not limited to stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers, and theaters.
Source separated, nonputrescible recyclable materials that
have been mixed at the source of generation (i.e., placed in the same
container).
Lumber, roofing material, sheathing, rubble, broken concrete,
macadam, plaster and brick, conduit, pipe, insulation, and other material
which results from a construction, demolition, or remodeling process.
Paper boxes constructed in a corrugated manner and used as
containers for business and consumer applications.
Those recyclable materials to be source separated in this
Township. This term includes, but is not limited to, glass, newsprint,
plastic containers, aluminum cans, corrugated and other cardboard,
newspaper, high-grade office paper, or other materials.
The transportation, placement, or arrangement of designated
recyclable materials for all possible end uses except disposal as
solid waste.
Any room or group of rooms located within a building and
forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or
intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating by one
family.
An agreement entered into by the Township of East Pennsboro
with a private person or corporation for the collection and disposal
of all municipal waste and/or recyclables within the Township of East
Pennsboro to the extent provided by this Part and an agreement.
All clear, green, and brown colored glass food and/or beverage
containers. Glass shall not include crystal, ceramics, light bulbs,
and plate windows, laminated, wired or mirrored glass.
Paper items generated by offices and/or commercial entities.
This may include white computer paper, white copier paper, white typing
paper, white letterhead paper, white note pad paper and other similar
office paper.
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.
A drop-off point or area designated by the Township Manager
where leaves, tree trimmings, brush, garden residue, excluding grass
clippings, may be delivered for processing.
Rental housing apartment buildings or apartment complexes
which have two or more dwelling units, and condominium associations
and homeowners associations of two or more dwelling units which are
established and organized in such a manner that the association provides
common service for the residents of the housing development. This
definition shall 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-liquid
or contained gaseous materials 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, 35 P.S. § 6018.101
et seq., from a municipal, commercial, or institutional water supply
treatment plant, or waste water treatment plant, or air pollution
control facilities, as defined in the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling
and Waste Reduction Act, 53 P.S. § 4000.101 et seq.
The Township of East Pennsboro, Cumberland County, Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
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, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprises, 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.
The container provided by the Township of East Pennsboro
for the express purpose of storing recyclables for collection by the
Township or its exclusive contractor.
Those materials specified by the Township of East Pennsboro
for separation, collection, processing, recovery or reuse as part
of a recycling program.
The program or system of separation, collection, processing,
and recovery or reuse of recyclables.
Municipal solid waste, as herein defined, that is generated
at a dwelling unit.
Any garbage, refuse, other discarded material or other waste,
including solid, liquid, semisolid, 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 Coal Refuse Disposal Control
Act, 52 P.S. § 30.51 et seq. The term shall not include
treatment sludges 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 Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law,
35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
Any waste, including but not limited to, municipal, residual
or hazardous waste, including solid, liquid semi-solid or contained
gaseous material.
Clean, nonaerosol, and empty all-steel (ferrous metal) or
bimetal beverage and food containers.
Includes leaves, tree trimmings, brush and garden residue,
excluding grass clippings.
