As used in this article, the following definitions shall
apply:
CANS
Empty food, beverage and aerosol containers of aluminum, tin, steel
or a combination thereof, which formerly contained only nonhazardous substances
or such other substances as have been approved for recycling by DSWM.
CARDBOARD
All corrugated cardboard normally used for packing, mailing, shipping,
or containerizing goods, merchandise or other material, but excluding plastic,
foam, or wax-coated or soiled corrugated cardboard.
COMMERCIAL
Any person or other entity operating a business, trade, industry
or other activity which is carried on for profit.
COMMINGLED
Source-separated, nonputrescible recyclable materials that have been
mixed at the source of generation (i.e., placed in the same container).
COUNTY
The County of Burlington, State of New Jersey.
COUNTY PLAN
The District Solid Waste Management Plan for Burlington County as
approved by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
DESIGNATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Those recyclable materials to be source-separated in this municipality,
including but not limited to, antifreeze, cellular telephones, construction
and demolition debris consisting of asphalt, concrete, and untreated wood
waste, electronic waste, metal, glass, lead, acid batteries, fluorescent light
bulbs and ballasts, leaves, motor oil, paper, plastic bottles, paperboard
packaging, corrugated and other cardboard, newspaper, magazines, or high-grade
office paper, rechargeable batteries, toner and printer cartridges and tires.
DISPOSITION or DISPOSITION OF DESIGNATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
The transportation, replacement, reuse, sale, donation, transfer
or temporary storage for a period not exceeding six months, or for a period
of time as mandated by law, of designated recyclable materials for all possible
uses except for disposal of solid waste.
DWSM
The Burlington County Division of Solid Waste Management, its successors
and assigns.
ELECTRONIC WASTE
Computer hard drives, monitors, keyboards, modems, printers, fax
machines, VCRs and cell phones.
GLASS
All clear (flint), green and brown (amber) colored glass containers.
Glass shall not include crystal, ceramics, light bulbs, and plate, window,
laminated, wired or mirrored glass.
INSTITUTIONAL
Any person or other entity, either public or private, either for
profit or nonprofit, who operates for educational, charitable or other public
purpose.
MOBILE HOME PARK
Any park, including a trailer park or camp, equipped to handle mobile
homes sited on a year-round basis as defined in N.J.SA. 2A:18-61.7 et seq.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING
Any building or structure or complex of buildings or structures in
which five or more dwelling units are rented or leased or offered for rental
or lease for residential purposes except hotels, motels or other guest houses
serving transient or seasonal guests as those terms are defined under subsection
(j) of section 3 of the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law, P.L. 119967, c. 76
(N.J.S.A. 55:13A-1 et seq).
MUNICIPAL DROPOFF
Any facility designed and operated by this municipality solely for
the receiving and storing of source-separated, nonputrescible metal, glass,
paper, plastic containers and cardboard.
MUNICIPALITY
The Borough of Wrightstown located within the County of Burlington,
State of New Jersey.
PAPER
All newspaper, high-grade office paper, fine paper, bond paper, office
paper, xerographic paper, mimeograph paper, duplication paper, magazines,
paperback goods, school paper, catalogs, computer paper, telephone books,
and similar cellulosic material, whether shredded or whole, but excluding
wax paper, plastic or foil coated paper, thermal fax paper, carbon paper,
NCR paper, blueprint paper, food contaminated paper, soiled paper and cardboard.
PLASTIC BOTTLES
All bottles that are labeled as made from polyethylene terapthalate
(PET) and coded as #1 and high-density polyethylene terapthalate (HDPE) and
coded as #2. Specifically excluded are bottles that formerly contained hazardous
materials, including, but not limited to paint, motor oil, and pesticides.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative
enterprise, trust, municipal authority, federal institution or agency, state
institution or agency, municipality, other governmental agency or any other
entity or any group of such persons which is recognized by law as the subject
of rights and duties. In any provisions of this article prescribing a fine,
penalty, or imprisonment, the term "person" shall include the officers and
directors of a corporation or other legal entity having officers and directors.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL
A material which would otherwise become solid waste, which can be
collected, separated or processed, and returned to the economic mainstream
in the form of raw materials or products.
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 DROPOFF
Any facility designed and operated solely for the receiving and storing
of source-separated, nonputrescible metal, glass, paper, plastic containers,
and cardboard.
RESIDENT
Any human being residing within the municipality on a temporary or
permanent basis, but excluding persons residing in hotels or motels.
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 waste
to swine on their own farms.
SOURCE SEPARATE
To separate recyclable materials from the solid waste stream at the
point of waste generation.
SWMA
The New Jersey Solid Waste Management Act, as amended.