[Adopted 1-13-1992 by Ord. No. 369]
The following words and phrases, as used in
this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein, unless
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
- ACT 101
- The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and
Waste Reduction Act of 1988 (Act No. 101 of 1988, July 28, 1988).
- AUTHORIZED COLLECTOR
- A person, firm, partnership, corporation or public agency
authorized by the municipality or county to collect municipal waste
from residential, commercial, municipal, and institutional establishments.
- BULKY WASTE
- Large waste items, including, but not limited to, appliances
and furniture.
- COLLECTOR
- Any collector operating within the municipality which has
not been disapproved by the municipality.
- COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
- Those properties used primarily for commercial or industrial
purposes, and those multiple-dwelling residential buildings containing
four or more dwelling units.
- DETACHABLE CONTAINER
- Any metal bin or container which may be mechanically lifted
and emptied into a collection vehicle.
- HAULER
- See "authorized collector" and "collector."
- INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
- Facilities engaged in manufacturing or processing, including,
but not limited to, factories, foundries, mills, processing plants,
refineries, and mining.
- INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
- Facilities that house or serve groups of people, including,
but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, day-care
centers, schools and colleges.
- MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
- Properties having four or more dwelling units per structure.
- MUNICIPALITY
- The Borough of Mars.
- MUNICIPAL WASTE
- Garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste and
other 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."
- PERSON
- Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipality, municipal authority, or any
other legal entity whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject
of rights and duties.
- RECYCLING
- Separation, collection, processing, recovery, and sale or
reuse of metals, glass, paper, plastics, and other materials which
would otherwise be disposed of as solid waste.
- SCAVENGING
- Unauthorized or uncontrolled removal of solid waste materials
placed for collection, or removal from a solid waste processing or
disposal facility.
- SOLID WASTE
- Garbage, refuse, and other discarded solid materials, including,
but not limited to, solid waste materials resulting from industrial,
commercial and agricultural operations and from community activities.
Liquids, semisolids, and contained gaseous materials are hereby defined
as solid waste.
- STORAGE
- The containment of any waste on a temporary basis in such
a manner as to not constitute disposal of such waste.
- YARD WASTE
- Prunings, grass clippings, weeds, leaves, and general yard
and garden wastes.
All generators of municipal waste and bulky
waste in the municipality shall contract for the collection of disposable
waste and recyclable items as follows:
A. All one- and two-family residential properties shall
use the authorized collection service.
B. All multifamily housing, commercial, institutional
and municipal establishments, and industrial establishments with office
and lunchroom wastes shall be subject to this article; however, such
collection services shall be negotiated between the waste generator
and the collector.
C. Collection service shall be provided in compliance
with the following standards:
(1) All residential waste shall be collected at least
once each week, with the exception that arrangements shall be made
in advance with the collector for pickup of bulky waste and for payment
of any special fees incident thereto.
[Amended 6-8-1992 by Ord. No. 376]
(2) All multifamily housing and commercial, municipal,
institutional, and industrial waste shall be collected at least once
each week and more often if required in order to control health hazards,
odors or unsightly conditions.
(3) All recyclable materials shall be collected at least
once each month and in accordance with Article
II, Recycling, of this
chapter, when enacted.
(4) Each authorized collector shall establish a regular
collection schedule in the municipality and shall so notify the municipality
of the days and times. If a regular collection day falls on a holiday,
the collector shall notify all customers and the municipality as to
when collection will be made.
(5) Yard waste may not be offered for collection at any
time.
(6) Highly flammable or explosive waste shall not be offered
for regular collection.
D. All collectors operating within the municipality shall
comply with this article as regards the licensing of collectors and
the transportation of waste.
E. Receptacles/containers
shall be placed at the curb or roadside or alley by 6:00 a.m. on the
scheduled day of collection but shall not be so placed prior to 5:00
p.m. on the day before collection, and empty receptacles/containers
shall be removed to the premises from the curb, roadside or alley
by 11:00 p.m. of the day of collection. Receptacles/containers shall
not be kept at the curb or roadside between scheduled collections,
and they shall be stored on the premises at such locations to be unseen
from the public streets or roads or from the front yards of immediate
neighboring property.
Any person who violates any provision of this
article shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a summary offense, which
is punishable by a fine of not more than $300 or, in default of payment
of such fine, by imprisonment for a period of not more than 90 days,
or both. Each day of violation shall be considered a separate and
distinct offense.
The collection of municipal solid waste in the
municipality and the disposal thereof shall be subject to such further
reasonable rules and regulations as may from time to time be promulgated
by the governing body; provided, however, that such rules and regulations
shall not be contrary to the provisions of this article or applicable
law.
[Adopted 5-11-1992 by Ord. No. 373]
The following words and phrases, as used in
this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein, unless
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
- ACT 101
- The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and
Waste Reduction Act of 1988 (Act No. 101 of 1988, July 28, 1988).
- ALUMINUM
- Empty, all-aluminum food and beverage containers, clean aluminum
foil and pie tins, aluminum siding, aluminum frames of furniture,
scrap from industrial sources, and other all-aluminum material.
- BIMETALLIC CONTAINERS
- Empty food or beverage containers consisting of ferrous sides
with aluminum top and bottom. A container is bimetallic if a magnet
sticks to the sides but not the ends.
- COLLECTOR
- Any person, firm, corporation or public agency authorized
by the municipality to collect recyclable materials from residences
or authorized by commercial, municipal and institutional establishments
to collect recyclable materials from those properties.
- COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
- Those properties primarily for commercial or industrial purposes,
and those multiple-dwelling residential buildings containing four
or more dwelling units.
- COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
- Events that are sponsored by public or private agencies or
individuals, including, but not limited to, fairs, bazaars, socials,
picnics and organized sporting events, attended by 200 or more individuals
per day.
- CORRUGATED PAPER
- Containerboard cartons, Kraft linerboard, and shipping boxes
with corrugated paper medium. This definition also includes Kraft
(brown) paper bags.
- GLASS CONTAINERS
- Empty bottles and jars made of clear, green or brown glass.
This definition does not include noncontainer glass, window glass,
blue glass and porcelain, ceramic products, and light bulbs.
- HIGH-GRADE OFFICE PAPER
- Printing, writing, and computer paper used in commercial,
institutional and municipal establishments, as well as in residences.
This definition includes white paper, white ledger, bond paper, colored
ledger, computer printouts, computer tab cards and copy machine paper.
- INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
- Facilities that house or serve groups of people, including,
but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, day-care
centers, schools and colleges.
- LEAD ACID BATTERIES
- Automotive, truck and industrial batteries that contain lead.
- MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
- Properties having four or more dwelling units per structure.
- MUNICIPAL ESTABLISHMENT
- Public facilities operated by the Borough and other governmental
and quasi-governmental agencies.
- MUNICIPALITY
- The Borough of Mars.
- MUNICIPAL WASTE
- As defined by Act 101.
- NEWSPAPERS
- Paper of the type commonly referred to as "newsprint" and
distributed at fixed intervals, having printed thereon news and opinions,
containing advertisements and other matters of public interest.
- PERSON
- Owners, lessees, and occupants of residences or commercial,
municipal or institutional establishments.
- PLASTICS
- High-density polyethylene, such as plastic containers for
milk, container plastics, including resealable containers, food containers,
household product containers, PET soda bottles, beverage containers,
and other plastic products.
- RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
- Materials generated by residences and commercial, municipal
and institutional establishments which are specified by the Borough
or by the county to be recycled. Recyclable material may include clear
glass, colored glass, aluminum, steel and bimetallic containers, high-grade
office paper, newspapers, corrugated paper, yard waste, plastics,
and any other items selected by the municipality or county or specified
in amendments to Act 101.
- RECYCLING
- The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of
metals, glass, paper, yard waste, plastics and other materials which
would otherwise be disposed or processed as municipal waste, or the
mechanized separation and treatment of municipal waste (other than
through combustion) and creation and recovery of reusable materials
other than a fuel for the operation of energy.
- RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT
- Any occupied single-family, duplex or multifamily dwelling
of three units or less for which a municipal or private hauler collects
municipal waste.
- SOURCE-SEPARATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
- Materials that are separated from municipal waste at the
point of origin for the purpose of being recycled.
- STEEL CONTAINERS
- All coated (tin, zinc, etc.) and other empty ferrous food
and beverage containers, including allowed materials. This definition
also includes ferrous and alloyed ferrous scrap materials derived
from iron and stainless steel and white goods (large appliances).
- YARD WASTE
- Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, grass
clippings, and similar material.
The Borough hereby establishes a recycling program
for the mandatory separation and collection of recyclable materials
and the separation and composting of yard waste from all residences
and commercial, municipal and institutional establishments located
in the Borough. Recyclable materials shall be collected at such times
and dates, at least once per month, as may be hereinafter established
by regulation.
All owners, lessees or occupants of any residential,
commercial, institutional, multifamily, or municipal properties in
the Borough shall separate yard waste from other waste. (The Borough
will specify by regulation the disposition of yard waste.)
No person shall place a used lead acid battery
in municipal waste or discard or otherwise dispose of a lead acid
battery except by delivery to a designated facility authorized under
the laws of Pennsylvania.
All recyclable materials, when placed at the
curbside, become the property of the Borough until removed by an authorized
collector, except as provided below:
A. Any person may donate or sell recyclable materials
to individuals or organizations authorized by the Borough. The recyclable
materials shall be either delivered to the individual organization
site or may be placed at the curb for collection by said individual
organization. If placed at the curb, the individual or organization
shall not collect recyclable materials on days designated as municipal
collection days.
B. Any person who donates or sells recyclable materials
shall not receive a discount in waste collection fees paid to their
collector.
The Borough may enter into an agreement with
public or private agencies or firms to authorize said agencies or
firms to collect all or part of recyclable materials placed at curbside
or at another designated site.
The Borough officials are authorized by this
article to enact reasonable rules and regulations for the operation
and enforcement of this article, including, but not limited to:
A. Designating recyclable materials to be separated by
residential establishments and designating additional recyclable materials
to be separated by commercial, institutional and municipal establishments;
B. Establishing collection procedures for recyclable
materials;
C. Establishing reporting procedures for volumes of materials
recycled;
D. Establishing procedures for the distribution, monitoring,
and collection of recycling containers;
E. Establishing procedures and rules for the collection
of yard waste; and
F. Establishing procedures for the enforcement of the
provisions of this article.