This chapter shall be known as the "Borough
of Wilson Municipal Solid Waste Ordinance."
The following words and phrases, when used in
this chapter, shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,
the meanings given to them in this section:
A person desirous of being authorized as a collector.
The residue from burning wood, coal, coke and other combustible
materials for the purposes of heating and cooking. It does not include
the cinders produced in industrial or manufacturing plants.
A person authorized to collect, transport and dispose of
municipal waste from the Borough of Wilson.
Any establishment engaged in a nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including but not limited to stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
The incineration, deposition, injection, dumping, spilling,
leaking or placing of municipal waste into or on the land or water
in such a manner that the waste or a constituent of the waste enters
the environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged to the waters
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any site, facility, location, area or premises to be used
for the disposal of municipal waste.
All animal and vegetable wastes attending or resulting from
the handling, dealing, storing, preparation, cooking and consumption
of foods.
Any establishment engaged in manufacturing or processing,
including but not limited to factories, foundries, mills, processing
plants, refineries and the like.
Any establishment engaged in service to persons, including
but not limited to hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools and
universities.
The entire process or any part thereof of storage, collection,
transportation, processing, treatment and disposal of municipal waste
by any person engaging in such process.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste
and other material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous material, 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 from a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply treatment
plant, wastewater treatment plant or air-pollution control facility.
(Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act, No. 97 Section 103)[1]
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipal authority, federal government or
agency, state institution and agency or any other legal entity whatsoever
which is recognized by law as being subject to the rights and duties
of a person.
Any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume
or bulk of municipal waste or any technology used to convert part
or all of such waste materials for off-site reuse. "Processing" facilities
include but are not limited to transfer facilities, composting facilities,
incinerators, recycling facilities and resource recovery facilities.
The collective term applying to all garbage, rubbish, ashes,
and grass trimmings from residential, municipal, commercial or institutional
premises.
[Amended 3-26-2018 by Ord. No. 787; approved 3-26-2018]
At least three or more times per month.
All waste materials not included in garbage and ashes, and
other waste materials which result from the ordinary conduct of housekeeping.
It does not include rubbish from building construction, repairs, reconstruction
or dismantling thereof, or street refuse, industrial refuse, dead
animals, abandoned heavy or bulky machinery or such other waste material
as do not normally emanate from or are not commonly produced in homes,
stores and institutions. It does not include tin cans and bottles
as those items are recyclable.
[Amended 3-26-2018 by Ord. No. 787; approved 3-26-2018]
Any waste, including but not limited to municipal, residual
or hazardous waste, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous materials. (Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act. No. 97,
Section 103).[2]
The containment of any municipal waste on a temporary basis
in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such waste, and
it shall be presumed that the containment of any municipal waste in
excess of one-year constitutes disposal.
