The following words and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings
ascribed to them in this section:
Empty, nonaerosol, all-aluminum beverage and food containers,
excluding products such as pie pans and aluminum foil.
Empty, nonaerosol, steel or tin-coated steel food and beverage
containers.
Newspaper, magazines and periodicals, high-grade office paper,
corrugated paper, junk mail, telephone books and paperback books.
Glass, aluminum cans, bimetallic and ferrous cans and plastic
bottles.
Structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid
parallel furrows and ridges.
Plain, clear and colored or colorless glass bottles and jars.
Expressly excluded from this definition of glass are crockery, lead
crystal, porcelain products, light bulbs, tempered or plate glass,
and opaque colored glass.
All white paper, bond paper and computer paper used in commercial,
institutional and municipal establishments and in residences.
Facilities that house or serve groups of people such as hospitals,
nursing homes, public and private schools and universities.
Printed matter containing miscellaneous written pieces published
at fixed or varying intervals.
Commercial establishments being used as rental housing apartment
buildings or apartment complexes which have more than four dwelling
units per structure. This definition shall also include apartment
complexes owned and operated by institutional establishments.
Paper of the type commonly referred to as "newsprint" and
distributed at fixed intervals, having printed thereon news and opinions
and containing advertisements and matters of public interest, excluding
magazines.
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipal authority or any other legal entity
whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and
duties.
Plastic bottles and containers number 1 to 7 only. No plastic
toys, swimming pools, ornaments, trash cans, hangers, fencing, flat
pieces of plastic, or plastic bags such as grocery bags may be included.
Those materials specified by the Township of Haverford herein
or by subsequent action for this board for separation, collection,
processing, recovery or reuse as part of a recycling program.
The program or system of separation, collection, processing,
recovery or reuse of recyclables.
The governmental jurisdiction and legal entity of the Township
of Haverford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
B.
Frequency of collections. Paper and commingled recyclables will be
collected once each week, except for emergencies. The Township will
establish a regular schedule of refuse and recycling collections;
such schedule will be published and distributed to the residents.
C.
Reporting requirement for licensed haulers.
(1)
Private refuse collection firms, registered with the Township Department
of Code Enforcement, shall provide to the Township on an annual basis
the amount of waste collected by them in the Township.
(2)
It shall be unlawful for any waste collector to collect or transport
recyclables or refuse without written permission from the Township.
A.
Introduction. The Township, recognizing the reclaiming of recyclable
materials is an important method for addressing the growing solid
waste disposal problem through conserving landfill space, and that
recycling conserves natural resources, reduces energy consumption
and promotes the general interest, and to be in compliance with Pennsylvania
Act 101,[1] does hereby authorize and require collection, processing,
storage, transportation and recycling of materials in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 4000.101 et seq.
B.
Establishment of program. The Township hereby establishes a program
for the mandatory source separation of recyclables from municipal
waste by persons residing in single-family dwellings and multifamily
establishments and by commercial, institutional and industrial establishments.
C.
Residential recycling.
(1)
All persons occupying residential dwellings shall separate aluminum,
bimetallic and ferrous cans, glass, plastic bottles, leaves and clean
paper products from other waste generated at their residential dwellings
and store such material until collection by the Township. The Township
may, by resolution, designate other materials from residential dwellings
to be separated from waste.
(2)
The person occupying a residential dwelling shall deposit the commingled
recyclables into the recycling container and place it at the house
curbline for collection on the designated day.
D.
Commercial and institutional recycling.
(1)
Persons occupying commercial and institutional establishments shall
be required to separate, from other waste, at least the following
recyclable items: aluminum cans, high-grade office paper, glass, bimetallic
cans, corrugated paper and leaves.
(2)
Each commercial and institutional establishment in Haverford Township
shall develop a collection system for recyclables at its complex and
provide written documentation to the Township of the total number
of tons recycled and of the total number of tons of waste generated
annually.
E.
Multifamily properties recycling.
(1)
Persons occupying multifamily rental housing units shall be required
to separate, from other waste, all clean paper products and leaves
and at least two items from the following list: clear and colored
glass, aluminum cans, steel and bimetallic cans and plastic bottles
or jars.
(2)
An owner, landlord or agent of an owner or a landlord of multifamily
rental properties shall provide a collection system for these recyclable
materials at each property. The collection system must include suitable
containers for collecting and sorting materials, easily accessible
locations for the containers and written instructions to the occupants.
(3)
Owners, landlords or agents of owners or a landlord of multifamily
rental housing units shall annually provide written documentation
to the Township of the total number of tons recycled and the total
number of tons of waste generated annually.
F.
Unauthorized collection.
(1)
From the time of placement of recyclable items at the designated
collection location for residential dwellings, the recyclable items
shall become the property of the Township or its authorized agent.
It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person unauthorized
by the Township to collect, pick up or cause to be collected or picked
up any such items. Any and each such collection in violation hereof
from one or more locations shall constitute a separate and distinct
offense punishable as hereinafter provided.
(2)
It shall be unlawful for a person to collect, remove or dispose of
waste which contains recyclables.
Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article, upon conviction thereof, in an action brought before
a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this article continues
or each section of this article that shall have been found to have
been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
