[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Somerville 9-26-86 as Ord. No. 1013. Amended 7-20-87 by Ord. No. 1024. Amended in its entirety 9-4-90 by Ord. No. 1087. Amended 3-4-91 by Ord. No. 1092; 10-5-92 by Ord. No. 1130; 6-20-94 by Ord. No. 1172. Amended
in its entirety 5-5-08 by Ord. No. 2261. Further amendments noted where applicable.]
Cleaned and used beverage cans made entirely of aluminum.
Dry cell batteries such as radio, toy, watch or calculator
batteries.
Those districts known as the B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4, B-5, B-3M
and C Districts as same are shown and delineated on the zoning map
attached hereto.[1]
A material made from pulp and generally containing two (2)
sides with a liner between and generally used as an exterior packing
for shipping materials. This category shall also include brown paper
bags.
All cleaned products made from silica or sand, soda ash,
and limestone, the product being transparent or translucent, and being
used for the packaging or bottling of various matter, and all other
materials commonly known as glass, excluding, however, blue and flat
glass, commonly known as window glass.
All commercial, professional, institutional and industrial
premises within the Borough.
[Amended 3-4-91 by Ord.
No. 1092; 5-5-08 by Ord. No. 2262]
For residences and nonresidences — The following mandatory
items to be separated from waste: newspaper, mixed paper, corrugated
cardboard, telephone books, aluminum cans, glass containers, steel
and bimetal cans, plastic containers (#1 and #2 plastic bottles),
leaves, textiles, motor oil, consumer batteries, asphalt, concrete,
and wood waste.
For commercial, industrial, institutional, governments, office
and parks — Aluminum cans, antifreeze, computer printout/white
ledger paper, concrete, consumer batteries, corrugated cardboard,
glass containers, heavy iron, lead-acid batteries, leaves and brush,
magazines and junk mail, mercury containing devices, mixed office
paper, newspaper, plastic containers (#1 and #2 plastic bottles),
scrap autos, steel cans, stumps, logs and tree parts, textiles, used
consumer electronics, used motor oil, white goods and light iron and
wood scrap.
Includes paper of the type commonly referred to as news print
and distributed at stated intervals, usually daily or weekly having
printed thereon news and opinions and containing advertisements and
other matters of public interest. Expressly excluded, however, are
all magazines or other periodicals as well as all other paper products
of any nature whatsoever.
[1]
Editor's Note: The zoning map referred to herein may
be found on file in the office of the Borough Clerk.
A.
At the time of issuance of any construction and/or demolition permit(s),
where the permittee possesses twenty-one (21) or more cubic yards
or construction and/or demolition waste materials, the Construction
Official shall provide to the permittee written instruction on proper
disposal and recycling of the construction and/or demolition waste
materials.
B.
The Construction Official shall also furnish to the permittee a "Notification
of Construction/Demolition Activity Form". The permittee shall complete
and execute the form and transmit it via facsimile to the Somerset
County Department of Health-CEHA OPERATIONS within forty-eight (48)
hours of the issuance of a construction and/or demolition permit.
C.
New developments of multi-family residential units or commercial,
institutional, or industrial properties (pursuant to N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.13a
and 99.16c.)
(1)
Any application to the Planning Board of the municipality of Somerville,
for subdivision or site plan approval for the construction of multi-family
dwellings of three or more units, single family developments of fifty
(50) or more units or any commercial, institutional, or industrial
development for the utilization of one thousand (1,000) square feet
or more of land, must include a recycling plan. This plan must contain,
at a minimum, the following:
(a)
A detailed analysis of the expected composition and amounts
of solid waste and recyclables generated at the proposed development;
and
(b)
Locations documented on the application's site plan that
provide for convenient recycling opportunities for all owners, tenants,
and occupants. The recycling area shall be of sufficient size, convenient
location and contain other attributes (signage, lighting, fencing,
etc.) as may be determined by the Municipal Recycling Coordinator.
(2)
Prior to the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy by the municipality
of Somerville, the owner of any new multi-family housing or commercial,
institutional, or industrial development must supply a copy of a duly
executed contract with a hauling company for the purposes of collection
and recycling of source-separated recyclable materials, in those instances
where the municipality does not otherwise provide this service.
(3)
Provision shall be made for the indoor, or enclosed outdoor, storage
and pickup of solid waste, to be approved by the Municipal Engineer.
D.
Violation of any provision of this section shall be subject to penalties
and/or fines.
On and after the date fixed and promulgated by regulation issued
by the Superintendent of Public Works of the Borough of Somerville
in accordance with the terms hereof, it shall be mandatory for all
persons, except those physically disabled, who are owners, lessees
and occupants to separate recyclables from all other solid waste produced
by any such residences and nonresidences.
A.
All residential recyclables shall be properly placed in borough supplied
recycling containers.
B.
Used newspaper shall be compacted and shall be tied or otherwise
secure in bundles not exceeding thirty (30) pounds in weight. Such
bundles shall be placed separately at the curb for collections at
such time as may hereinafter be established by regulation.
C.
Corrugated board, in all commercial districts, shall be broken up
and flattened where necessary and securely tied in bundles broken
up and flattened where necessary and securely tied in bundles or,
in the alternative, may be compactly wedged into a larger cardboard
box of any size not to exceed thirty-five (35) pounds in weight. Corrugated
or cardboard boxes from major appliances, television sets or similarly
large items need not be broken up and may be placed at the curb after
plastic, lumber, hardwood and items other than cardboard have been
removed. Such cardboard shall be uncontaminated by food, animal or
human waste, chemicals or any other substances or products other than
paper.
D.
Receptacles for recyclables shall be placed at the curb no sooner
than 6:00 p.m. the day before collection and removed no later than
10:00 p.m. on the day of collection.
From time of placement at the curb of any resident or recyclables
for collection by the Borough of Somerville in accordance with the
terms hereof, such recyclables shall be and become the property of
the Borough of Somerville or its authorizing agent. It shall be in
a violation of this Ordinance for any person unauthorized by the Borough
of Somerville to collect or pick up or cause to be collected or picked
up any such recyclables. Each such collection in violation hereof
from one or more residence shall constitute a separate and distinct
offense punishable as hereinafter provided.
The Superintendent of Public Works and Police Department hereby
is authorized and directed to enforce this chapter. The Superintendent
of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to establish and
promulgate reasonable regulations as to the manner, days and times
for the collection of recyclables in accordance with the terms hereof.
Such regulations shall be promulgated and effective not later than
three (3) months from the date hereof.
Any person, firm or corporation who violates or neglects to
comply with any provision of this chapter of any regulation promulgated
pursuant thereto, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by
a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500).
The Borough Council may in accordance with procedures of N.J.S.
40A;12-1 et seq., enter into agreements granting a franchise or license
to qualified persons, partnerships, or corporations, to authorize
them to collect any or all recyclables at curbside. The Borough Council
may, in accordance with the procedures of N.J.S. 40A:11-1 et seq.,
enter into agreements to have all recyclables collected at curbside.
The Borough Council may, if it elects, use the borough personnel to
collect recyclables at curbside and sell said recyclables to N.J.S.
40A:12-1 et seq.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, any person
who is an owner, lessee, or occupant, may donate or sell recyclables
to any person, partnership or corporation whether operating for profit
or not for profit. Said person, partnership or corporation may not,
however, under any circumstances, pick up said recyclables from curbside
in the Borough of Somerville, whether or not said recyclables are
placed at curbside on or immediately preceding regular curbside collection.
