The following words and phrases used throughout this article shall
have the following meanings:
ACT 101
The Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction
Act of 1988.
ALUMINUM
Empty all-aluminum beverage or food cans.
COLLECTOR
The entity or entities authorized by the Town to collect
recyclable materials from residences, or authorized by commercial,
municipal and institutional establishments that do not receive collection
services from the Town to collect recyclable materials from those
properties.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS
Those properties used primarily for commercial or industrial
purposes, and those multiple dwelling residential buildings containing
more than two dwelling units.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
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.
CORRUGATED PAPER
Structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid
parallel furrows and ridges.
GLASS CONTAINERS
Bottles and jars made of clear, green or brown glass. Expressly
excluded are noncontainer glass, plate glass, automotive glass, light
bulbs, blue glass and porcelain and ceramic products.
HIGH GRADE OFFICE PAPER
All white paper, bond paper and computer paper used in commercial,
institutional and municipal establishments and in residences.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Those facilities that house or serve groups of people including,
but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, day care
centers, schools and universities.
LEAD ACID BATTERIES
Includes but is not limited to automotive, truck and industrial
batteries that contain lead.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves from trees, bushes and other plants, garden residues,
chipped shrubbery and tree trimmings, but not including grass clippings.
MUNICIPAL ESTABLISHMENT
Public facilities operated by the Town and other governmental
and quasi-governmental authorities.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or 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 residual or hazardous waste in
the Solid Waste Management Act from a municipal, commercial or institutional
water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility. The
term does not include source-separated recyclable materials.
PERSON(S)
Owners, lessees, and occupants of residences and commercial,
municipal and institutional establishments.
PLASTIC CONTAINERS
Empty plastic food and beverage containers. Due to the wide
variety of types of plastics, the Town may stipulate specific types
of plastic which may be recycled.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Materials generated by residences and commercial, municipal
and institutional establishments which are specified by the Town and
can be separated from municipal waste and returned to commerce to
be reused as a resource in the development of useful products. Recyclable
materials may include, but are not necessarily limited to, clear glass,
colored glass, aluminum, steel and bimetallic cans, high grade office
papers, newsprint, corrugated paper, leaf waste, plastics, and any
other items selected by the Town or specified in future revisions
to Act 101. The recyclable materials selected by the Town may be revised
from time to time as deemed necessary by the Town.
RECYCLING
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of
metals, glass, paper, leaf waste, 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.
RESIDENCES
Any occupied single or multi-family dwellings having up to
two dwelling units per structure for which the Town provides municipal
waste collection service.
WASTE
A material whose original purpose has been completed and
which is directed to a disposal or processing facility or is otherwise
disposed. The term does not include source separated recyclable materials
or material approved by the PA Department of Environmental Resources
for beneficial use.