[Adopted 9-5-1990 by Ord.
No. 378 (Part 5, Ch. 6, Art. B, of the 1985 Code
of Ordinances)]
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Collegeville
Borough Waste Reduction and Recycling Ordinance."
Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following
words and phrases used throughout the article shall have the following
meanings:
Empty all-aluminum beverage and food containers.
Empty food and beverage containers constituting of steel
and aluminum.
Those properties used primarily for commercial or industrial
purposes.
Events that are sponsored by public or private agencies or
individuals that include, but are not limited to, fairs, bazaars,
socials, picnics, and organized sporting events attended by 200 or
more individuals per day.
Structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid
parallel furrows and ridges.
All products made from silica or sand, soda ash and limestone;
the product may be transparent, translucent, or colored, and may be
used as a container for packaging or bottling of various matter and
all other material commonly known as "glass." Excluded are ceramics,
automotive glass, plate glass, or heat-tempered glass.
All white paper, bond paper, and computer paper used in commercial,
institutional, and municipal establishments and in residences.
Those facilities that house or serve groups of people such
as hospitals, schools, day-care centers, universities, and nursing
homes.
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery, and tree trimmings and
similar material, but not including grass clippings.
Any property having four or more dwelling units per structure.
Public facilities operated by the municipality and other
governmental and quasi-governmental authorities.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste
and other materials, including liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous
material, resulting from the operation of residential, municipal,
commercial, or institutional establishments and from community activities.
The term does not include source separated recyclable materials.
Borough of Collegeville.
Paper of the type commonly referred to as newsprint and distributed
at stated intervals, usually daily or weekly, having printed thereon
news and opinions and containing advertisements and other matters
of public interest, but not including magazines.
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipality, municipal authority, federal
government or agency, State institution or agency (including, but
not limited to, the Department of General Services and the Pennsylvania
Public School Building Authority), or any other legal entity whatsoever
which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. In
any provisions of this article 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 other legal
entity having officers and directors.
Empty plastic food and beverage containers. Due to the large
variety of types of plastic, the recycling regulations may stipulate
specific types of plastic which may be recycled.
Materials generated by business or consumers which can be
separated from municipal waste and returned to commerce to be reused
as a resource in the development of useful products. Recyclables include
the following: clear glass, colored glass, aluminum, steel and bimetallic
cans, high-grade office paper, newsprint, corrugated paper, leaf waste,
and plastics. Recyclable material must be free from contamination
that would affect its reuse.
The collection, separation, recovery, and sale or reuse of
metals, glass, paper, leaf waste, tree branches, plastics, and other
materials which would otherwise be disposed or processed as municipal
waste or the mechanized separation and treatment of municipal waste
(other than through combustion) and creation and recovery of reusable
materials other than fuel for the operation of energy.
Any single-family attached or detached dwelling or multiple
dwellings having not more than four units from which the Borough collects
municipal waste.
Those materials separated at the point of origin for the
purpose of being recycled.
Empty steel or tin-coated steel food or beverage containers.
The Borough of Collegeville hereby establishes a recycling program
for the mandatory separation and collection of recyclable municipal
waste as designated by resolution adopted by the Borough Council of
the Borough of Collegeville from all residences, businesses, or institutions
in the Borough as designated by resolution adopted by Council, for
which waste collection is provided by the Borough or any other collector.
Collection of the materials to be recycled shall be made periodically
by the designated agent of the Borough, or any other municipal waste
collector operating in the Borough. This article is ordained pursuant
to the Act of July 28, 1988, No. 101, known as the "Municipal Waste
Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act."[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 4000.101 et seq.
By resolution adopted by Council, guidelines on the manner,
days and times of collections of recyclable materials, and the bundling,
handling, location, and time of placement of such materials for collection
shall be established.
A.
All persons who are residents of the Borough of Collegeville shall
separate all municipal waste to be recycled from all other municipal
waste produced at their homes, apartments, and other residential establishments
as designated by resolution adopted by Borough Council, and to store
such material for collection, and shall place the same for collection
in accordance with the guidelines established in the resolution.
(1)
If required by resolution adopted by Council, an owner, landlord,
or agent of an owner or landlord of a multifamily rental housing property
with four or more units may comply with its recycling responsibilities
by establishing a collection system at each property. The collection
system must include suitable containers for collecting and sorting
materials, easily accessible locations for the containers, and written
instructions to the occupants concerning the use and availability
of the collection system. Owners, landlords, and agents of owners
or landlords who comply with this section shall not be liable for
noncompliance of occupants of their buildings.
B.
All persons must separate leaf waste from other municipal waste generated
at their houses, apartments, and other residential establishments
for collection unless those persons have otherwise provided for composting
of leaf waste.
C.
Persons must separate high-grade office paper, aluminum, corrugated
paper and leaf waste (and other material deemed appropriate by the
municipality and established by resolution) generated at commercial,
municipal or institutional establishments and from community activities
if required to recycle by resolution adopted by Council, and to store
the material until collection. A person may be exempted from this subsection
if the person submits documentation to the Borough annually, indicating
that designated recyclable materials are being recycled in an appropriate
manner.
All municipal waste to be recycled placed by the resident for
collection by the Borough's agent pursuant to this article and
the resolution of Council, shall, from time of pickup, become the
property of the Borough, except as otherwise provided in this article
or a resolution.
It shall be a violation of this article, for any person, firm
or corporation, other than the Borough of Collegeville or one authorized
by Borough Council, to collect municipal waste to be recycled placed
by a resident for collection by the Borough's agent, unless that
person, firm, or corporation has prior written permission to make
such collection as set forth in this article. Each unauthorized collection
in violation hereof from one or more residences on one calendar day
shall constitute a separate and distinct offense punishable as hereinafter
provided.
Any resident may donate or sell municipal waste to be recycled
to any person, firm or corporation, whether operating for profit or
not, provided that the receiving person, firm or corporation shall
not collect such donated recyclable materials from the collection
point of residence without prior written permission from Council to
make such collection.
B.
Except as hereinafter provided, any person, firm or corporation who
violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction, be
sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $25, or more than $300, and
costs of prosecution, for each and every offense.
C.
The Borough reserves the right not to collect municipal waste containing
recyclable materials in combination with nonrecyclable materials.
Council may, from time to time, add to or remove from the standards
and regulations in this article.
