In accordance with the authority vested in the Town of Marshfield
Board of Health by MGL c. 111, §§ 31A and 31B, and
every other power thereto enabling, the regulations set forth hereinafter
are promulgated.
As used in these regulations, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
ACCESS
The implementation of a recycling program which provides
the opportunity to recycle for residents, tenants, or occupants of
multifamily units five units and above and commercial businesses.
The recycling program must be as convenient as trash collection whenever
possible.
BUSINESS OWNERS AND MANAGERS
Individuals or managers of commercial businesses, responsible
for providing waste management services for their businesses, located
in the Town of Marshfield.
COMMERCIAL BUSINESS RECYCLING PLAN
The plan required by the Board of Health to be submitted
by the business owner or manager or property manager of any office
building, retail, wholesale establishments, restaurant, nonprofit
organizations and industrial businesses. The plan will identify how
they are complying with the requirement to provide access to recycling
for their businesses, establishments and organizations. (See Appendix
F.)
COMMERCIAL WASTE
Nonhazardous waste generated by businesses, such as office
buildings, retail, wholesale establishments, restaurants and industrial
businesses. It does not include waste generated by single-family or
multifamily homes and apartments.
DESIGNATED HAULER
A permitted company in the business of collecting and transporting
recyclables and solid waste.
DIRECTOR
The Director of Public Health or his/her duly authorized
representative.
DROPOFF LOCATION
The transport and deposit of recyclable materials to a Board
of Health approved location.
FACILITY
A licensed solid waste disposal or handling facility approved
or licensed by the Department of Environmental Protection.
HAULER REPORTING FORMS
The forms required by the Board of Health to be submitted
for multifamily and commercial business recycling collection programs
by the permitted and contracted hauling company. (Reference Appendix
C.)
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING UNIT
Any building or portion that contains living facilities (which
provide for sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation) of five households
or more.
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING AGREEMENT FORM
The form required by the Board of Health to be submitted
by each property owner or manager of a multifamily building or complex
which identifies how they are complying with the requirement to offer
their tenants/residents access to a recycling program. Also it is
an agreement with the Marshfield Board of Health on the loan of wheeled
carts and responsibility of property owners and managers. (See Appendix
B.)
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING RECYCLING PLAN
The plan required by the Board of Health to be submitted
by each property owner or manager of a multifamily housing complex
which identifies how they are complying with the requirement to provide
their tenants with access to a recycling program. (See Appendix D.)
PERMITTEE
Any person(s) or company which has applied for and obtained
the appropriate permit to collect refuse within the corporate limits
of Marshfield, Massachusetts.
SOLID WASTE
Useless, unwanted or discarded solid, liquid or contained
gaseous material resulting from commercial, industrial, municipal
or household activities that is abandoned by being disposed or incinerated
or is stored, treated or transferred pending such disposal, incineration
or other treatment, but does not include:
A.
Hazardous wastes or regulated recyclable materials as defined
and regulated pursuant to 310 CMR 30.00;
B.
Sludge or septage which is land applied in compliance with 310
CMR 32.00;
C.
Wastewater treatment plant residuals or sludge ash from publicly
or privately owned wastewater treatment plants which is treated and
disposed at a site regulated pursuant to 314 CMR 12.00;
D.
Septage, as defined and regulated pursuant to MGL c. 111, § 31D;
F.
Ash produced from the combustion of coal when reused as prescribed
pursuant to MGL c. 111, § 150A;
G.
Solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows;
H.
Solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage;
I.
Source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined by
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended;
J.
Those materials and by-products generated from and commonly
reused within an original manufacturing process; and
K.
Compostable or recyclable materials when composted or recycled
in a facility or operation not required to be assigned pursuant to
310 CMR 16.05(2) to (4).
WASTE BANS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has promulgated waste bans
which restrict the disposal of certain recyclable items at solid waste
landfills, transfer stations and incinerators in Massachusetts (310
CMR 19.017). (See Appendix E.)
WHEELED CART
A container of 65 to 68 gallons to 95 to 100 gallons for
recyclable materials.
Any solid waste/recyclables collection permit may be suspended,
modified or revoked by the Board of Health upon receipt of evidence
satisfactory to the Board that the permittee has not conformed to
the requirements of these regulations or such further regulations
as may be adopted or to any applicable state or federal statute, regulation,
rule or order regarding transportation or disposal of solid waste
concerning the collection and disposal of rubbish. Appeals of such
suspension, modification or revocation may be directed to the Board
of Health within 10 business days of said suspension, modification
or revocation.
Each of these regulations shall be construed as separate to
the end that if any regulation, clause or phase thereof should be
held invalid for any reason, the remainder of the regulation and all
other regulations shall continue to be in force.
All permittees shall provide recycling service in accordance
with these regulations, for recyclable items outlined in Appendix
A, beginning on the following dates:
A. July 1,
2000: paper products.
B. September
1, 2000: glass.
C. November
1, 2000: metal cans and plastics.