The following words, when used in this part, shall have the meanings
ascribed to them in this part, except in those instances where the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
ACT 90
The Pennsylvania Waste Transportation Safety Act of 200,
27 Pa.C.S.A. § 6201 et seq. (P.L. 596, No. 90, June 29,
2002).
ACT 97
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act of 1980, 35 P.S.
§ 6018.101 et seq. (P.L. 380, No. 97, July 7, 1980).
ACT 101
The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and
Waste Reduction Act of 1988, 53 P.S. § 4001.101 et seq.
(Act 1988, P.L. 101, July 28, 1988).
ASHES
The residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other
combustible materials for the purposes of heating and cooking. It
shall not include the cinders produced in steam-generating plants.
BOROUGH
The Borough of New Britain.
BUILDING RUBBLE
The waste material resulting from the construction or demolition
of buildings or roads, tree trunks and limbs and other similar material.
COLLECTOR
Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or public agency
who is engaged in the collection and/or transportation of municipal
waste and/or source-separated recyclable materials.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in a nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including, but not limited to, stores, markets, offices,
restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
COUNTY
The County of Bucks, Pennsylvania.
DISPOSAL
The deposition, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or
placing of municipal waste into or on the land or water in a manner
that the municipal waste or a constituent of the municipal waste enters
the environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged to the waters
of this commonwealth. Disposal facilities include, but are not limited
to, municipal waste landfills and construction/demolition waste landfills
as defined by Act 101, Act 97, and/or PADEP rules and regulations
(25 Pa. Code Chapters 75 and 271).
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of foods. It shall not include
food-processing wastes from canneries, packing plants, or similar
industries, nor large quantities of condemned food products.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in manufacturing or production
activities, including, but not limited to, factories, foundries, mills,
processing plants, refineries, mines and slaughterhouses.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment or facility engaged in services, including,
but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, schools and universities.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, and
similar materials, but not including grass clippings.
MULTIFAMILY RESIDENCE
Any occupied structure having an excess of four dwelling
units per structure, including, without limitation, apartments, townhouses,
condominiums, and cooperatives.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, solid waste, industrial lunchroom or
office waste and other material including solid, liquid, semisolid,
or contained gaseous material, resulting from operation of residential,
municipal, commercial or institutional establishments and from community
activities, and any sludge not meeting the definition of "residential
or hazardous waste" under Act 97 from a municipal, commercial or institutional
water supply treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, or air pollution
control facility. The term does not include any source-separated recyclable
materials.
MUNICIPALITY
Any of the 54 minor civil divisions in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
NONRESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES
Properties used for used other than residences or multifamily
residences. The term also shall not include Borough-owned property.
PADEP
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
PERSON
Any natural person, firm, partnership, corporation, association,
institution, cooperative enterprise, municipality, municipal authority,
federal government or agency, state institution or agency, or any
other legal entity recognized by laws as the subject of rights and
duties. In any provisions 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 other
legal entity having officers and directors as well as the corporation
or other legal entity itself.
PROCESSING
Any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume
or bulk of municipal or residential waste or any technology used to
convert part or all of such materials for off-site reuse. Processing
facilities include, but are not limited to, transfer facilities, recycling
facilities, composting facilities and resource recovery facilities.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Aluminum cans, clear glass containers, plastics, newspaper,
and such other materials specified by the municipality to be recycled
in the municipality's recycling regulations resulting from this
part and as revised from time to time as deemed necessary by resolution
of Borough Council.
RECYCLING
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of
recyclable materials 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 a fuel for
the generation of energy.
REFUSE
Garbage, ashes, rubbish and building rubble as herein defined.
RESIDENCE
Any occupied single or multifamily dwelling having up to
four dwelling units per structure from which a municipal or private
hauler under contract with the Borough of New Britain collects municipal
waste.
RUBBISH
All waste materials not included in "garbage" and "ashes"
except large dead animals, large machinery or vehicles or such other
waste materials as are not commonly produced in homes, stores, and
institutions.
SCAVENGING
The unauthorized and uncontrolled removal of any material
stored or placed at a point for subsequent collection or from a processing
or disposal facility.
SOLID WASTE
All refuse and other discarded solid material normally collected
by a municipal or private collector.
SOURCE-SEPARATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Recyclable materials, as defined in this section, that are
separated from municipal waste at the point of origin or generation
for the purpose of recycling.
TRANSPORTATION
The off-site removal of any municipal waste at any time after
generation.