A program for the mandatory 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 Pocopson Township shall separate and segregate
from municipal waste clear and colored glass, plastic milk 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 above items generated at such
establishments, each person 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 tons and types of materials
recycled and the place of disposition of 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 and 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 the location.