[Adopted 8-17-1994 by L.L. No. 1-1994]
This article shall be known as the "Village
of West Haverstraw Recycling Law."
The purpose of this article is to define the
requirements for a mandatory recycling program in the Village of West
Haverstraw. The Village Board finds that a program which has as its
goal the reduction of the amount of solid waste disposed of at landfills
by the Village and the conservation of recyclable materials will promote
the health, safety and welfare of persons and property within the
Village and otherwise will encourage an environmentally sound and
beneficial practice. Consistent with this purpose, the terms and conditions
of this article are intended to be liberally construed so as to fully
effectuate the goals and purpose hereof.
As used in this article, the following definitions
shall apply:
A thick paperboard, including but not limited to corrugated
boxes, cardboard cartons, pasteboard and similar corrugated materials,
but shall not mean wax-coated or soiled cardboard.
Source-separated, nonputrescible, noncontaminated recyclable
materials that have been placed in the same container.
Those recyclable materials designated by this article, and/or by resolution of the Town Board pursuant to this article, to be source-separated. This term includes, but is not limited to, those materials hereinafter enumerated at § 201-4.
All clean, green and brown (amber) colored glass containers
being used for packaging or bottling of various matter and all other
materials commonly known as "glass," but shall not include blue and
flat glass commonly known as "window glass," mirrored glass, drinking
glasses, light bulbs, crystal and clay and ceramic pots.
Any material, natural or manufactured, which by itself or
in concentration or combination with other like or dissimilar materials
will contaminate to environmentally unsafe levels the atmosphere,
soil or water, whether above or below the ground.[1]
Includes newsprint and all newsprint and newspaper advertisements,
supplements, comics and enclosures.
All high-grade office paper, fine paper, bond paper, office
paper, photocopying paper, mimeopaper, duplication paper, magazines,
paperback books, school paper, catalogs, junk mail, computer paper,
telephone books and similar cellulosic material, but shall not mean
newspaper, wax paper, plastic- or foil-coated paper, styrofoam, wax-coated
food and beverage containers, carbon paper, blueprint paper, food-contaminated
paper, soiled paper or cardboard.
Any individual, firm, partnership, company, corporation,
association, joint venture, cooperative enterprise, trust or any or
all combinations of individuals acting in concert.
Includes all disposable containers fabricated from polyethylene
terephthalate or high-density polyethylene and commonly used for food
and nonfood products, except that plastic bags and containers used
for substances considered hazardous are excluded.
Any material which would otherwise become solid waste which
can be collected, separated and/or processed, treated, reclaimed,
used or reused to produce a raw material or product.
Any process by which materials which would otherwise become
solid waste are collected, separated and/or processed, treated, reclaimed,
used or reused to produce a raw material or product.
Any facility or area designed and designated solely for the
receiving and storing of source-separated designated recyclable materials.
Any person residing or owning residential property within
the Village on a temporary or permanent basis, but excluding persons
residing in hotels or motels. For purposes of this article, "resident"
does not include commercial, industrial or institutional establishments.
All putrescible and nonputrescible materials or substances
discarded or rejected as having served their original intended use
or as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess to the owner at
the time of such discard or rejection, including garbage, refuse,
litter, rubbish, industrial waste, commercial waste, sludge, ashes,
contained gaseous material, incinerator residue, construction and
demolition debris, discarded automobiles and offal, but not including
designated recyclable materials, solid or dissolved matter in domestic
sewerage or substances, materials in noncontainerized gaseous form
or hazardous materials or waste.
[Amended 3-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
To separate recyclable materials from the solid waste stream
at the point of waste generation.
Containers comprised or fabricated of aluminum, tin, steel
or a combination thereof, which contain or formerly contained only
food and/or beverage substances. Aerosol cans are excluded.
The Village of West Haverstraw and the Board of Trustees
of the Village of West Haverstraw, respectively.
Includes leaves, grass cuttings, tree limbs, shrubs and shrubbery
clippings.
[1]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "multiresidential
complex," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed
6-18-2008 by L.L. No. 3-2008.
A.
All commercial, industrial and institutional establishments
within the Village of West Haverstraw shall source-separate and arrange
for the collection and disposition for recycling of all designated
recyclables.
[Amended 6-18-2008 by L.L. No. 3-2008]
B.
All commercial, industrial and institutional establishments,
through their owners, managers, boards or other persons or entities
responsible for the operation of such institutions or establishments,
shall establish a program for the recycling of the aforesaid designated
recyclables, which program shall be in accordance with the provisions
of this article and any rules and regulations hereinafter promulgated
or established hereunder.
[Amended 6-18-2008 by L.L. No. 3-2008]
C.
Any such program established pursuant to this article
shall provide for a recycling collection area in which to receive
designated recyclables for transportation and disposition. Such recycling
collection areas shall be maintained in a neat and sanitary condition
and shall provide separate storage facilities or containers for the
collection of designated recyclables.
D.
The collection and disposition of the designated recyclables
shall be the responsibility of the commercial, industrial and institutional
establishment which has generated the recyclables by use of an independent
carter.
[Amended 6-18-2008 by L.L. No. 3-2008]
[Amended 6-18-2008 by L.L. No. 3-2008]
All residential homeowners and occupants shall
source-separate designated recyclables from other solid waste and
place such recyclables in recycling collection areas as shall be designated
by the Village Board or Commissioner of Public Works. Such recyclables
shall be prepared for collection in accordance with this article and
with any rules and regulations hereinafter promulgated or established
hereunder.
[Amended 6-18-2008 by L.L. No. 3-2008]
A.
The Village Department of Public Works, and any other
person authorized to collect solid waste within the Village, shall
not pick up any solid waste from persons who have clearly failed to
source-separate designated recyclables.
B.
Recyclables shall not be placed at curbside, or in
any other location visible from the street, earlier than 6:00 p.m.
on the day preceding the date of the scheduled pickup, and containers
must be returned to a nonvisible location by 8:00 p.m. on the day
of the scheduled pickup.
[Amended 2-17-2010 by L.L. No. 1-2010[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law also repealed former § 201-8, Unlawful activities, as amended; § 201-9, Enforcement, as amended; § 201-10, Rules and regulations, as amended; and § 201-23, Penalties for offenses, as amended; and renumbered former §§ 201-11 through 201-22 and 201-24 as §§ 201-8 through 201-20, respectively.
