[Ord. 175-2014, 8/13/2014, § 210-101]
This Part shall be known and may be cited as the "Honey Brook Township Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Recycling Ordinance."
[Ord. 175-2014, 8/13/2014, § 210-102]
This Part is intended to be an integral part of an overall system designed to facilitate mandatory recycling and ensure Township compliance with the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act of July 8, 1988 (P.L. 528, No. 101), ("Pennsylvania Act 101").
[Ord. 175-2014, 8/13/2014, § 210-103]
As used in this Part the following terms shall have the meaning indicated.
Chester County Solid Waste Authority.
The Board of Supervisors of Honey Brook Township.
All waste materials too large for collection in ordinary containers. Examples of bulk waste include: furniture, appliances, carpeting and similar items. Bulk waste shall not consist of any items that may be packaged and disposed of using regular trash collection procedures.
Aluminum cans (i.e., soda), tin (steel) cans, bimetal; all food cans (i.e., vegetables, fruit, pet food, juice, coffee, etc., including large economy size), aluminum pie tins and foil; all items must be rinsed and cleared.
Any establishment engaged in a nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing business including, but not limited to, stores, markets, office buildings, restaurants, shopping centers, and theaters. Multi-family dwellings, town homes, mobile home parks, hotels, motels, mixed-use properties (combined business/residential on a single parcel) and farms which use commercial dumpsters shall be considered commercial establishments. Does not include properties where primary permitted use is residential and accessory use is commercial (i.e., home occupations). Multiple dwelling residential buildings, including residential units over store front commercial business, containing more than four dwelling units, shall be treated as commercial properties.
Church, school, civic, service group, municipal functions, and all other such functions conducted within Honey Brook Township and sponsored privately, which include, but are not limited to, fairs, bazaars, socials, picnics, and organized sporting events that will be attended by 25 or more individuals per day.
A process involving the microbial decomposition of organic matter.
Structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid parallel furrows and ridges (i.e., cardboard).
The scheduled collection and transportation of recyclable materials placed at the curb-line or other area designated by the collector.
The owner of any residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional property located within the Township.
A facility which processes or acts upon solid waste so as to dispose of the material, such as a composting facility, an incinerator, a resource recovery plant, a recycling processing facility, a waste-to-energy facility or a sanitary landfill.
Those specified locations, staffed or unstaffed, where recyclable materials may be taken at specified times.
An occupied single or multi-family structure having up to, and including, four dwelling units per structure, or each unit in a multi-family structure if the units are individually owned with a separate entrance onto a public or approved private street.
The official designated herein or otherwise charged with the responsibilities of administering this Part, or the official authorized representative.
Any number of continuous lots comprising, in the aggregate, five or more acres under common control by way of ownership or lease, used in whole or in part for agricultural purposes including, without limitation, the growing of crops or the keeping of farm animals, including without limitation, cattle, horses, goats, sheep, alpacas, or maintained in anticipation of farm use as set forth herein.
Bottles and jars made of clear or colored glass. Expressly excluded are non-container glass, mirrors, automobile glass, dishware, plate glass, crystal, light bulbs and porcelain and ceramic products.
All white paper, bond paper, and computer paper used in commercial, industrial, institutional and municipal establishments.
Any establishment engaging in manufacturing or processing including, but not limited, to factories, foundries, mills, processing plants and refineries.
Any establishment engaged in service to persons including, but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, schools and universities.
Includes, but not be limited to, automotive, truck and industrial batteries that contain lead.
Leaves from trees, bushes, and other plants, garden residue, chipped shrubbery and tree trimmings, but not including grass clippings.
Glossy publications including catalogs.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom, or office waste and any other material including solid waste, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous materials resulting from the operation of residential, municipal, commercial, industrial, or institutional establishments and from community activities, and any sludge not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous waste in the Solid Waste Management Act from a municipal, commercial, industrial, or institutional water supply treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, or air pollution control facilities (Pennsylvania Act 101, § 103), but excluding human body waste, debris from household renovations, whether interior or exterior, dirt, rock, lead pipes, leaf waste, hazardous wastes, and recyclable items as defined herein.
Any person registered in Honey Brook Township collecting or transporting municipal waste or recyclable materials for owners or occupants of property in Honey Brook Township, and any business or institution within Honey Brook Township which generates municipal waste or recyclable materials and uses its own employees and equipment for the collection or transportation of municipal waste or recyclable materials. Municipal waste collectors must be registered by Honey Brook Township and authorized by the State of Pennsylvania.
All paper of the type commonly referred to as newsprint and distributed at fixed intervals having printed thereon news and opinions, containing advertisements and other matters of public interest including glossy inserts. Expressly excluded is junk mail included with newspapers.
An individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution, cooperative enterprise, municipal authority, federal government or agency, state institution or agency or any other legal entity whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.
Bottle and jar containers only (i.e., milk, water, soda, detergent, shampoo). Rinse and crush. Excluded are motor oil bottles, flowers, pens, plastic wrap and Styrofoam.
Source-separated recyclable materials, including materials listed in § 1501 of Act 101 and materials identified by the Township to be recycled. Such materials may include, but not be limited to: corrugated cardboard, aluminum products, hi-metal, glass, and plastic containers, newspapers, paper, magazines and periodicals and leaf waste. The Township reserves the right to periodically update the list of materials defined as recyclable.
See "dwelling unit."
The separation of recyclable materials from municipal waste at the points of origin for the purpose of recycling.
The governmental jurisdiction and legal entity of the Township of Honey Brook, County of Chester, Pennsylvania.