As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
ACT 97
The Solid Waste Management Act of 1980, as amended.
ACT 101
The Municipal Waste Planning Recycling and Waste Reduction
Act of 1988, as amended.
BI-METAL CONTAINERS
Empty food or beverage containers constructed of a mixture
of ferrous metal, usually steel, and nonferrous metal, usually tin.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
A building or buildings used or designed for use for commercial
purposes, including, but not limited to, wholesale, industrial, manufacturing,
transportation, financial or professional services stores, markets,
office buildings, restaurants, shopping centers, theaters, or other
commercial activities.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Events sponsored in whole or in part by the Township or conducted
within the Township and sponsored privately, which include, but are
not limited to, fairs, bazaars, socials, picnics, and organized sporting
events that will be attended by 200 or more individuals per day.
COMPOSTING FACILITY
A facility for composting vegetative material, including
leaves, garden residue and chipped shrubbery and tree trimmings that
is permitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
CORRUGATED PAPER
Paper products made of a stiff, moderately thick paper board,
containing folds or alternating ridges, commonly known as "cardboard."
DWELLING UNIT
A room or group of rooms within a building used, intended
to be used or capable of being used as a complete housekeeping facility
for one family, providing living, sleeping, cooking, dining and sanitary
facilities.
GLASS
Products made from silica or sand, soda ash and limestone.
The product may be transparent (clear) or colored (e.g., brown or
green) and used as a container for packaging (e.g., jars) or bottling
of various matter. Expressly excluded are noncontainer glass, window
or plate glass, light bulbs, blue glass and porcelain and ceramic
products.
HIGH-GRADE OFFICE PAPER
All types of high-grade, white or colored paper, bond paper
and computer paper used in residential, commercial, institutional,
and municipal establishments.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in manufacturing or processing,
including, but not limited to, factories, foundries, mills, processing
plants, refineries, and the like.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
An establishment engaged in service, including, but not limited
to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools, universities, churches,
and social or fraternal societies and organizations.
LANDLORD
Any individual or organizational owner who rents and/or leases
residential units, commercial space, or an industrial complex(es).
Landlords own the properties in question and deal directly with their
tenants or lessees.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery trimmings, tree trimmings,
and similar materials.
MIXED PAPER
All types of paper combinations, such as colored paper, carbonless
forms, ledger paper, colored paper envelopes, mixtures of high-grade
office paper and the like.
MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT
A building or buildings under single or multiple ownership
and designed as a residence for four or more families living independently
of each other and doing their own separate cooking therein, including
apartments, townhomes, or condominiums.
MUNICIPAL ESTABLISHMENT
Of or pertaining to any office or other property under the
control of any branch or arm of the federal government of the United
States of America, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or any political
subdivision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including, but not
limited to, the Township, any counties, cities, boroughs, and municipal
authorities.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste
and other material, including solid, liquid, semisolid commercial,
material, resulting from the operations of residential, municipal,
commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities
and sludge not meeting the definition of residential or hazardous
waste in the Solid Waste Management Act, Act of July 7, 1980, P.L.
380, No. 97, as amended, 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq., from
a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply treatment plant,
wastewater treatment plant or air pollution control facility. The
term does not include source-separated recyclable materials or leaf
waste.
MUNICIPAL WASTE COLLECTOR
Any collector, remover, transporter, and disposer of municipal
waste, recyclable materials, and/or leaf waste for owners or occupants
of single-family residential establishments, multifamily residential
establishments, commercial establishments, institutional establishments,
municipal establishments, and community activities in the Township.
MUNICIPAL WASTE CONTAINER
A container designated by the property owner or resident
for the storage of municipal waste. A municipal waste container may
be provided by the Township, property owner, resident or tenant, or
the municipal waste collector.
NEWSPRINT
Paper of the type commonly referred to as "newspaper" and
distributed at stated intervals, usually daily or weekly, having printed
thereon news and opinions and containing advertisements and other
matters of public interest.
PERSON
An individual, partnership, association, corporation, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipal authority, federal government or
agency, state institution or agency or any other legal entity which
is recognized by law as a subject of rights and duties. In any provision
of this Part prescribing a fine, imprisonment or penalty or any combination
of the foregoing, the term "person" shall include the officers and
directors of any corporation or any other legal entity having officers
and directors.
PLASTIC CONTAINERS
Empty and clean plastic containers that contained food, beverage,
cleaning, laundry, and other household products. Includes only rigid
containers marked with a recycling symbol and a single number (i.e.,
1, 2, 5, or 7). Examples include soda and water bottles, milk and
water jugs, laundry containers, produce and other food containers,
and soap bottles; excludes expanded polystyrene containers and plastic
containers larger than two gallons, such as buckets and laundry baskets.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Those materials specified by the Township for collection
in accordance with this Part and recycling regulations that may be
promulgated from time to time for collection, processing, and recovery.
These materials include aluminum cans, bi-metal containers, corrugated
paper, glass containers, leaf waste, magazines, mixed paper, newsprint,
high grade office paper, and plastic containers.
RECYCLING
The collection, processing, recovery, and sale or reuse of
recyclable materials, which could otherwise be disposed of or processed
as municipal waste.
RECYCLING CONTAINER
A container designated by the property owner or resident
for the storage of recyclable materials. A recycling container may
be provided by the Township, property owner, resident or tenant, or
the municipal waste collector. A recycling container must be durable,
watertight, and be at least 13 gallons in size and no more than 35
gallons with a label indicating the container is for recyclable materials.
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT
An occupied dwelling unit for human habitation, except multifamily
residential establishment with four or more units. Home occupations
incidental to the residential use within a dwelling unit are considered
a "residential establishment."
SINGLE-STREAM RECYCLING
Refers to a system in which all paper fibers, plastics, metals,
tin, and other materials are mixed in a recycling container instead
of being sorted into separate commodities (newspaper, paperboard,
corrugated fiberboard, plastic, glass, etc.) by the resident.
SOURCE SEPARATION
The separation of recyclable materials from municipal waste
at the points of origin for the purpose of recycling.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of East Coventry, Chester County, Pennsylvania.