Pursuant to the Statewide Mandatory Source Separation
and Recycling Act, each resident of the Township of West Windsor shall
be required to comply with the Recycling Plan of the Township of West
Windsor, adopting the Mercer County Recycling Plan to meet the state-mandated
recycling goals. To effectuate and implement the West Windsor Township
Recycling Plan, it is hereby required that the following standards
apply.
For the purpose of this article, the following
definitions shall apply:
ACCEPTABLE COMMINGLED MATERIALS
Those materials which would otherwise become municipal solid
waste for municipalities as listed here, and which may be collected,
separated, processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the
form of materials or products. Acceptable commingled materials shall
include acceptable metal containers and acceptable glass as here defined
herein. In no event shall acceptable commingled materials include
unacceptable commingled materials.
ACCEPTABLE GLASS CONTAINERS
Any clear, amber and green glass container of the type commonly
used for beverage and food products. Expressly exempted from this
definition are glass containers used for non-beverage or non-food
products such as pesticides, herbicides, or other chemicals. Light
bulbs, plates, safety and mirrored glass are also not considered acceptable
glass.
ACCEPTABLE METAL CONTAINERS
Metal containers (cans) of the type commonly used for beverage
and food products only, and may include aluminum, tin plate steel
and bimetal cans. Expressly exempted from this definition are cans
utilized for the packaging of chemicals or other non-food and non-beverage
products.
ACCEPTABLE PLASTIC CONTAINERS
Any polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and high-density polyethylene
(HDPE) plastic container of the type commonly used for beverage and
food containers only. PET or HDPE containers utilized for non-food
and non-beverage items are expressly exempted from this definition.
BATTERY
A group of two or more cells connected together to furnish
electric current. For the purposes of this article, the "battery"
and/or "batteries" being referred to are only for motor vehicles,
including automobiles, trucks and motorcycles.
BEVERAGE CONTAINER
An individual, separate, hermetically sealed, or made airtight
with a metal or plastic cap, bottle or can composed of glass, metal,
plastic or any combination thereof, containing a beverage.
BEVERAGES
Milk, alcoholic beverages, including beer or other malt beverages,
liquor, wine, vermouth and sparkling wine, and nonalcoholic beverages,
including fruit juice, mineral water and soda water and similar nonalcoholic
carbonated and noncarbonated drinks intended for human consumption.
COLLECTION UNIT
Any equipment determined to be necessary to complete the
collection services described in the Recycling Plan and ordinance
attached hereto and made a part hereof.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Those businesses which constitute wholesale, retail or service
establishments such as restaurants, stores, markets, theaters, hotels,
warehouses and offices.
CORRUGATED
Corrugated containers having liners of test liner, jute or
kraft.
COUNTY RECYCLING SYSTEM
The Mercer County collection and processing system as more
fully described in the Mercer County Recycling Plan and any amendments
thereto attached hereto and made a part hereof.
CULLET
Crushed or shattered glass with an average particle size
of one millimeter by one millimeter to two millimeters by two millimeters
(+/-).
DEPARTMENT
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
DESIGNATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Those materials named in the approved Mercer County Recycling
Plan and any amendments thereto attached hereto and made a part hereof.
END USER
The ultimate market for designated recyclable materials,
which utilizes said materials as raw materials in the manufacture
of new commodities.
EXISTING TRANSFER STATION
The Mercer County Improvement Authority's solid waste transfer
station located in Ewing Township, New Jersey, at Block 13, Lots 3,
10, 16, 17 and 37.
FOOD PRODUCT
A food commodity packaged in any manner in advance of sale
in units suitable for retail sale and which is not intended for consumption
at the point of manufacture.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Those businesses which include manufacturing, industrial,
and research and development entities.
MULTIFAMILY UNITS
Any building or structure of one or more stories and any
land appurtenant thereto, and any portion thereof, in which three
or more units of dwelling space are occupied, or are intended to be
occupied by three or more persons who live independently of each other.
This definition shall also mean any group of 10 or more buildings
on a single parcel of land or on contiguous parcels under common ownership,
in each of which two units of dwelling space are occupied or intended
to be occupied by two persons or households living independently of
each other, and any land appurtenant thereto, and any portion thereof.
This definition shall also include apartments, townhouses, condominiums
and retirement communities. "Condominiums" as used herein shall include
the form of ownership of real property under a master deed providing
for ownership by one or more owners of units of improvement together
with an undivided interest in common elements appurtenant to each
such unit.
NONPROFIT GROUP
Those groups or organizations operating not-for-profit, such
as the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, religious organizations, etc., and
other types of service organizations that may on occasion conduct
recycling fund-raising activities.
OFFICE PAPER
High-grade paper, fine paper, bond paper, offset paper, xerographic
paper, mimeo paper, duplicator paper, and related types of cellulose
material containing not more than 10% by weight of volume of noncellulose
material such as laminates, binders, coatings, or saturates.
OTHER PAPER
Junk mail, cereal, cookie, cracker, dry detergent boxes,
shoe boxes, juice boxes, milk and juice containers and telephone books.
PAPER
Includes all paper grades, including but not limited to newspaper,
high-grade office paper, fine paper, bond paper, offset paper, xerographic
paper, mimeo paper, duplicator paper, and related types of cellulose
material containing not less than 10% by weight or volume of noncellulose
material such as laminates, binders, coatings, or saturates.
PRIVATE RECYCLER
Any individual or group registered with the Mercer County
Improvement Authority to collect recyclable materials.
RECYCLABLE CONTAINER
A container intended for the in-home storage and collection
of recyclable materials, to be approved by the Mercer County Improvement
Authority, and to be signed with an appropriate recycling slogan.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL
Those materials which would otherwise become municipal solid
waste, and which may be collected, separated, processed and returned
to the economic mainstream in the form of materials or products.
RECYCLING
The activity whereby a secondary material is 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.
RECYCLING CENTER
Any facility designed and operated solely for receiving,
storing, processing and transferring source-separated, nonputrescible
or source-separated commingled nonputrescible metal, glass, paper,
plastic containers, and corrugated and other cardboard, or other recyclable
materials approved by the Department.
RECYCLING FACILITY
Any place, equipment or plant designed and/or operated for
the purpose of recycling to collect, store, process or to redistribute
separated waste so as to return the material to market.
SCAVENGER
Any individual or group that is not registered with the Mercer
County Improvement Authority to collect recyclable materials, or an
individual or group which has not been granted an exemption to the
registration requirement.
SOLID WASTE
Garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials resulting
from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and from
domestic and community activities, and shall include all other waste
materials, including liquids, except for solid animal and vegetable
wastes collected by swine producers licensed by the State Department
of Agriculture to collect, prepare and feed such wastes to swine on
their own farms.
SOLID WASTE FACILITIES
Includes the plants, structures and other real and personal
property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed
or operated by any person pursuant to the provisions of the Solid
Waste Management Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1e-1 et seq., or any other act,
including transfer stations, incinerator, resource recovery facilities,
sanitary landfill facilities or other plants for the disposal of solid
waste, and all vehicles, equipment and other real and personal property
and rights therein and appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient
for the collection or disposal of solid waste in a sanitary manner.
SOURCE SEPARATION
The act of segregating designated recyclable materials from
residential, commercial and institutional solid waste by the generator
thereof for the purpose of collection, disposition and recycling.
TIN-PLATE CANS
Those cans with a basic steel construction with an interior
coating of tin.
TIRE
A continuous solid or pneumatic rubber cushion encircling
a wheel usually consisting, when pneumatic, of an external rubber-and-fabric
covering that contains and protects from injury an air-filled inner
tube for use on a motor vehicle not for commercial use. A tire as
defined herein shall have the rim removed.
UNACCEPTABLE MIXED PAPER
Those materials which are not defined as "acceptable mixed
paper" and are unsuitable for consumption as the grade specified.
WHITE GOODS
Refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers and other appliances
of steel construction.
The Township of West Windsor may deliver tires
to the existing transfer station or such site as designated by the
Mercer County Improvement Authority for transfer to a tire recycler.
The Township of West Windsor shall, at a minimum,
within 30 days after the adoption of this article, and at least once
every six months thereafter, notify all persons occupying residential,
commercial and institutional premises within these municipal boundaries
of recycling opportunities and the source separation requirements
of this article and the Mercer County Recycling Plan. In order to
fulfill the notification requirements of this section, this municipality
may, in its discretion, place an advertisement in a newspaper circulating
in the municipality or post a notice in public places where public
notices are customarily posted and include a notice with other official
notifications periodically mailed to residential taxpayers, as the
municipality deems necessary and appropriate.
Grass clippings may be deposited at the Township's
registered compost facility and shall not be part of the Township's
refuse collection program.
Batteries shall not be a part of the curbside
collection program but shall be disposed of in markets set forth in
the Mercer County Recycling Plan Market Guide.
The enforcement of the Recycling Plan of the
Township of West Windsor shall be provided individually and severally
by the Township of West Windsor, with regard to enforcement of this
article, and/or the Mercer County Improvement Authority and/or the
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.