As used in this article, the following words shall have the meanings
indicated:
COMMERCIAL
Of or pertaining to any wholesale, retail, industrial, manufacturing,
transportation or financial or professional service or office enterprise,
business or establishment.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Those facilities upon which any wholesale, retail, industrial,
manufacturing, transportation or financial or professional service
or office enterprise or business operation or trade is conducted.
This term shall also include dwellings containing more than four dwelling
units per structure.
CORRUGATED PAPER/CARDBOARD
Structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid
parallel furrows and ridges of the type normally used to make packaging
cartons and boxes.
CURBSIDE COLLECTION
A method of collection of residentially generated recyclables
by which the owners or occupants of residential (as defined herein)
properties may dispose of their recyclables by placing them at curbside
(or similar place along the public right-of-way fronting along their
property) at times designated by the Borough Council of Plymouth Borough
or the private haulers operating therein for collection and removal
thereof for delivery to a recycling center.
GLASS CONTAINERS
All empty food and beverage jars or bottles made from silica
or sand, soda ash and limestone, the product being transparent or
translucent (either clear, green or amber/brown), excluding, however,
blue glass, flat glass, plate glass, glass commonly known as "window
glass," automotive glass, and ceramic and porcelain products.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE
Any material, natural or manufactured, which by itself or
in combination or concentration with other like or dissimilar material
will contaminate to environmentally unsafe levels the atmosphere,
soil or water, whether above or below the ground.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Those facilities that house or serve groups of people, such
as hospitals, schools, day-care centers and nursing homes.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves from trees, bushes and other plants, garden residue,
chipped shrubbery and tree trimmings, but not including grass clippings.
MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS
Printed matter containing miscellaneous written pieces, published
at fixed or varying intervals. Expressly excluded are all other paper
products of any nature whatsoever.
MUNICIPAL ESTABLISHMENT
Public facilities operated by the Borough of Plymouth and
other governmental or quasi-governmental authorities.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
An all-encompassing term meaning any garbage, refuse, 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, except farm-produced manure, other
agricultural waste and food-processing waste used on land where such
materials will improve the condition of the soil, the growth of crops
or the restoration of the land for the same purposes, and any sludge
not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous waste as defined
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act, 35
P.S. § 6018.101 et seq., but excluding the approved recyclable
materials hereinafter set forth.
NEWSPAPERS
A paper product printed on newsprint, including all newspapers,
newspaper advertisements and comics. Not included in this definition
are magazines, periodicals and telephone books.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, association, firm, corporation
or any and all combinations of individuals acting in concert.
PLASTIC CONTAINERS
Empty plastic food and beverage containers, the specific
types of which may, from time to time, be designated by resolution
of the Borough Council of Plymouth Borough.
PRIVATE HAULER
A contractor providing collection of solid wastes in the
Borough of Plymouth.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Source-separated recyclable materials, including materials
listed in Section 1501 of Act 101, and materials identified by the Borough to be recycled.
RESIDENTIAL
Any occupied single or multifamily dwelling housing up to
four dwelling units per structure. Those dwellings containing more
than four dwelling units per structure shall be considered to be commercial
establishments as hereinabove defined.
SOLID WASTE
Materials or substances discharged or rejected as being spent,
useless, worthless or in excess by the owner at the time of such discard
or rejection, except sewage and other highly diluted water-carried
materials or substances and those in gaseous form. Such waste is more
commonly defined as "municipal waste" under rules and regulations
promulgated by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
The waste shall include, but is not limited to, garbage, sludge, rubbish,
ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, offal, abandoned vehicles and/or
agricultural waste.