As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
COMMERCIAL USE
An activity involving the sale of goods or services carried
out for profit.
COMMINGLED
A combining of nonputrescible source-separated recyclable
materials for the purpose of recycling.
DESIGNATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Those materials designated within the Warren County District
Solid Waste Management Plan to be source separated for the purpose
of recycling. These materials include: glass, plastic, aluminum, tin,
paper, cardboard.
ELECTRONIC WASTE
(To be included in those instances where a recycling program
has been, or will be, established for these materials) A computer
central processing unit and associated hardware including keyboards,
modems, printers, scanners and fax machines; a cathode-ray tube, a
cathode-ray-tube device, a flat panel display or similar video display
device with a screen that is greater than four inches measured diagonally
and that contains one or more circuit boards, including a television,
and cell phones.
HOTEL
Any building, including but not limited to any related structure,
accessory building, and land appurtenant thereto, and any part thereof,
which contains 10 or more units of dwelling space or has sleeping
facilities for 25 or more persons and is kept, used, maintained, advertised
as, or held out to be, a place where sleeping or dwelling accommodations
are available to transient or permanent guests. This definition shall
also mean and include any hotel, motor hotel, motel, or established
guesthouse, which is commonly regarded as a hotel, motor hotel, motel,
or established guesthouse, as the case may be, in the community in
which it is located; provided that this definition shall not be construed
to include any building or structure defined as a multiple dwelling
in this act, registered as a multiple dwelling with the Commissioner
of Community Affairs as hereinafter provided, and occupied or intended
to be occupied as such, nor shall this definition be construed to
include a rooming house or a boardinghouse as defined in the Rooming
and Boarding House Act of 1979, P.L. 1979, c. 496 (N.J.S.A. 55:13B-1
et seq., except as otherwise set forth in P.L. 1987, c. 270 (N.J.S.A.
55:13A-7.5, 55:13A-7.6, 55:13A-12.1, 55:13A-13.2), any retreat lodging
facility, as defined in this section.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING
Any building or structure of complex of buildings in which
three or more dwelling units are rented or leased or offered for rental
or lease for residential purposes (see N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.13a) except
hotels, motels, or other guesthouses serving transient or seasonal
guests as those terms are defined under Subsection (j) of § 3
of the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law, P.L. 1967, c. 76 (N.J.S.A.
55:13A-1 et seq.);
MUNICIPAL RECYCLING COORDINATOR
The person or persons appointed by the municipal governing
body and who shall be authorized to enforce the provisions of this
chapter, and any rules and regulations which may be promulgated hereunder.
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) STREAM
All solid waste generated at residential, commercial, and
institutional establishments within the boundaries of the municipality
of Washington Township.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL
Those materials which would otherwise become solid waste,
and which may be collected, separated, or processed and returned to
the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products.
SOURCE SEPARATION
The process by which recyclable materials are separated at
the point of generation by the generator thereof from solid waste
for the purposes of recycling.
The collection of recyclable material shall be in the manner
prescribed as follows:
A. All containers containing recyclable materials shall be placed, prior
to collection, between the curb and the sidewalk, or in the absence
of curb and sidewalk, as near to the street as not to constitute a
danger, where such receptacles shall be readily accessible to the
collector without providing obstruction to pedestrians. The owner
or occupant of the premises shall keep all receptacles clean and in
safe handling condition. Receptacles or other items to be disposed
of shall be placed as noted above anytime after 6:00 p.m. of the day
immediately preceding the day of collection, but no later than 6:00
a.m. of the day of collection. After collection, any containers shall
be removed from the curbside by no later than 8:00 p.m. of the day
of collection.
B. All receptacles or dumpsters shall be kept in a clean and safe manner
and containers shall be no more than 30 gallons. Newspapers, cardboard
and other paper must be flattened and bound with twine or string.
The municipal Board of Health, the Recycling Coordinator, the
Zoning Officer, the Building Inspector, the Housing Officer, or other
code enforcement officer, the Police Department, and the Warren County
Department of Health are hereby individually and severally empowered
to enforce the provisions of this chapter. An inspection may consist
of sorting through containers and opening of solid waste bags to detect,
by sound or sight, the presence of any recyclable material.