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:
ACCEPTABLE BIMETAL CONTAINERS
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.
ACCEPTABLE GLASS CONTAINERS
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.
ACCEPTABLE PAPER
Newspaper, associated inserts, magazines and corrugated cardboard.
ACCEPTABLE PLASTIC CONTAINERS
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.
ACCEPTABLE TIN-PLATE STEEL CONTAINERS
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.
BATTERIES
Groups of two or more cells connected together to furnish electric
current.
BEVERAGE
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.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Those businesses which constitute wholesale, retail or service establishments
such as restaurants, stores, markets, theatres, hotels, warehouses and offices.
COUNTY RECYCLING PROGRAM
The Mercer County collection programs as more fully described in
the Mercer County Recycling Plan and amendments.
DEPARTMENT
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, unless the
context indicates otherwise.
GRASS
Plants used as ground cover in lawns and landscape applications and
clippings from such applications.
MAGAZINES
All weekly, monthly or other consumer periodicals and glossy newspaper
inserts.
MULTIFAMILY COMPLEX
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.
OFFICE PAPER
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.
PAPER
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.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
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.
RECYCLING
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.
RECYCLING ACT
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.
SOLID WASTE
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.
SOURCE SEPARATION
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.
TIRE
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.
USED MOTOR OIL
Refined petroleum from motor vehicles, lawn mowers or other machinery
which can be re-refined into petroleum products.
WHITE GOODS
Refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers and other appliances of
steel construction.
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.
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.
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.