It is the purpose of this article to comply with the New Jersey Statewide
Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act, P.L. 1987, c. 102, and the New Jersey Recycling Act of 1981, P.L. 1981. c. 278, as well as the provisions of the Bergen County Long-Term Solid
Waste Management Plan Amendment.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
A. Residential sector definitions.
ALUMINUM CANS
Beverage containers made of a lightweight silver-sheet, metallic
element.
CORRUGATED CARDBOARD
Cardboard of the type to make cardboard boxes, cartons, pasteboard
and similar corrugated and kraft paper material.
GLASS BEVERAGE CONTAINERS
All containers made from silica or sand, soda ash and limestone,
the product being transparent or translucent and being used for packaging
or bottling of various matter of a brown, white (clear) or green color and
all other material commonly known as glass excluding, however, blue glass,
plate glass and glass commonly known as "window glass."
GRASS
Green herbage sending up spike-like shoots or blades.
LEAVES
Those materials naturally formed from trees and bushes that are suitable
for composting and mulching purposes.
NEWSPAPER
A paper product, shall be deemed to include the type of distributed
usually daily or weekly, having printed thereon news, opinion, advertisements,
and other matter of public interest.
PLASTIC
A hermetically sealed, or made airtight with a metal or plastic cap,
container with a minimum wall thickness of not less than ten-thousandths (0.010)
inch, and composed of thermoplastic synthetic polymeric material.
USED MOTOR OIL
Used oil from motor vehicles, lawnmowers and motorcycles.
WHITE GOODS
Used appliances such as refrigerators, washers, dryers and stoves.
YARD WASTE
Includes leaves, grass, clippings, tree stumps, branches, limbs and
brush.
B. Commercial and light industrial section definitions.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS
Source-separated nonputrescible recyclable material generated from
the construction, alteration, repair, maintenance and/or demolition of structures
within Northvale. This material shall include concrete, bricks, block, ferrous
and nonferrous scrap, asphalt, asphalt shingles, recyclable wood scrap and
any and all other material generated from the construction, alteration, repair,
maintenance and/or demolition of structure within the Borough of Northvale.
HIGH-GRADE PAPER
White typing paper and ledger paper, white notepad paper, copier
paper, carbonless computer printout paper, manila tab cards and file folders.
MIXED PAPER
Source-separated mixture of all types of paper, including but not
limited to corrugated, high-grade paper, newspaper, magazines. telephone directories,
wrapping paper, box board, books, grocery bags and junk mail.
C. General definitions.
PERSONS
Includes all individuals, partnerships, corporations, owners, tenants,
lessees, firms, societies, schools, churches and associations, either profit
or nonprofit, within the Borough of Northvale.
RECYCLABLE
The term used to include all materials, designated by this article
or future ordinances, to be separated from solid waste placed at curbside
for separate pickup.
RECYCLING
Any process by which materials which would otherwise become solid
waste are collected, separated or processed and returned to the economic mainstream
in the form of raw materials or products.
RECYCLING COORDINATOR
The person appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Council who
shall be authorized to coordinate the borough's Recycling Program and
assist with the enforcement of the provisions of this article and the rules
and regulations promulgated hereinafter.
SOLID WASTE
The term shall include all garbage, rubbish and waste matter usually
disposed of under the municipal garbage contract and normally placed at curbside
by the residents and commercial occupants in the Borough of Northvale for
usual collection at regular intervals by the contractor holding the borough
garbage contract.
[Amended 8-10-1994 by Ord. No. 675-94]
Any person who violates any provision of this article and the rules
and regulations issued pursuant thereto, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
subject to a fine not less than $25 nor more than $1,000.