A program for the source separation and collection of recyclable
materials and leaf waste within the Township is hereby established.
No person shall dispose, collect, treat, remove or transport recyclable
materials or leaf waste within the Township except in accordance with
this chapter. The use of a municipal waste collector shall not relieve
any person from compliance with this chapter. The Board of Supervisors
is hereby authorized to establish or amend from time to time, by resolution,
a list of recyclable materials for collection and other such rules
and regulation.
Nothing in this chapter or any regulation promulgated pursuant
hereto shall be deemed to impair the ownership of separated materials
by the persons who generated them unless and until separated materials
are placed at curbside or similar location and collected by a municipal
waste collector.
From the time of collection of recyclable materials by a municipal
waste collector pursuant to the provisions of this article and any
rules and regulations adopted hereunder, the recyclable materials
shall become and be the property of the municipal waste collector.
It shall be a violation of this article for any person not a municipal
waste collector to collect or pick up or cause to be collected or
picked up any recyclable materials placed at the curb or other designated
place for collection by a municipal waste collector pursuant to the
provisions of this article. Any and each such unauthorized collection
in violation hereof from one or more residences shall constitute a
separate and distinct offense punishable as hereinafter provided in
this article.
All persons occupying commercial, municipal and institutional
establishments within Thornbury Township shall separate and segregate
from municipal waste clear and colored glass, plastic milk, water
and beverage containers, aluminum containers, metal/bimetal cans,
high-grade office paper, junk mail, magazines, phone books, corrugated
cardboard, leaf waste and such other recyclable materials as may be
specified from time to time by resolution of the Board of Supervisors.
In addition to the separation and segregation of these items generated
at such establishments, each shall store the materials until collection
for recycling by a municipal waste collector; make arrangements to
have a municipal waste collector collect and recycle the recyclable
materials at a minimum of once every other week; and annually provide
written documentation and certification to the Township of the total
number of tons of municipal waste and the total number of tons and
types of materials recycled and the place of disposition of all materials
recycled. Reports shall be provided by January 31 of every calendar
year for the previous calendar year. Such persons may comply with
the reporting requirements hereunder by requiring their municipal
waste collector to provide said documentation and certification directly
to the Township.
Community activities shall have provisions for recycling containers
to, at a minimum, collect commingled (aluminum, glass and plastic)
beverage containers. The sponsor of the event shall be responsible
for providing the containers as well as the collection and transport
by a municipal waste collector for these events. The sponsor shall
provide written documentation and certification to the Township of
the total number of tons of municipal waste and tons and types of
materials recycled and the place of disposition of materials recycled.
Reports shall be provided within 30 days of the event. Such persons
may comply with the reporting requirements hereunder by requiring
their municipal waste collector to provide said documentation and
certification directly to the Township. Community activity recycling
shall be reported independently of normal routine weekly pickups at
any location.