The accumulation, collection, removal and disposal of solid
waste must be controlled by the Town of East Hampton for the protection
of the public health, safety, and general welfare. It is consequently
found and declared that:
A.
The Town of East Hampton is authorized by law to regulate the disposition
of solid waste generated within its boundaries and to collect a charge
therefor and to license solid waste collectors; and
B.
The public health, safety and general welfare of the Town of East
Hampton will be best served by requiring the collection and disposal
at disposal sites licensed or permitted by the State of Connecticut
by licensed and permitted solid waste haulers or solid waste collectors
of all solid waste generated within the boundaries of the Town; and
C.
The public health, safety and general welfare of the Town of East
Hampton will be best served by reducing the amount of solid waste
by encouraging and requiring the recycling of certain materials; and
D.
The Town of East Hampton is required by law to make provisions for
the separation of recyclables from solid waste generated within the
boundaries of the Town of East Hampton.
E.
The enactment of this article is in furtherance of the municipality's
regional Solid Waste Management Plan.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
A substance of low freezing point added to a liquid, especially
to the water in a radiator of an automobile, e.g., ethylene glycol,
or to gasoline in the tank to prevent freezing.
A group of rooms located within a structure comprising a
single, habitable unit used, or intended to be used, for living, sleeping,
cooking, and eating in a building.
A device used for generating electric current through a chemical
reaction, including, but not limited to, nickel-cadmium batteries,
carbon batteries, and alkaline batteries.
Bushes, shrubs, small trees, or tree branches.
Tree trunks, stumps, building materials, and such other items
as are defined as bulky waste per DEP regulations.
Any facility owned, rented, or leased by the Town, now or
in the future, which is specifically set aside for the disposal of
bulky waste.
Corrugated boxes and similar corrugated and kraft paper materials
which have a minimum of contamination by food or other material.
Any person who hires himself out to collect solid waste from
residential, business, commercial, or other establishments.
The collection and/or disposal of solid waste for purposes
of making a profit.
Source-separated, nonputrescible recyclable materials that
have been mixed at the source of generation, i.e., placed in the same
container.
Individual ownership in fee simple of a residential dwelling
unit located in a detached dwelling, an attached dwelling, a semiattached
dwelling, or a multifamily dwelling, with ownership of an undivided
interest held in common with all of the other owners of the dwelling
units contained in a community housing development.
The State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental
Protection.
The Director of Public Works or the designee of the Town
Manager assigned the responsibilities of the Director of Public Works
as they relate to this chapter.
Depositing, discharging, placing, and disposing of solid
waste.
Shall have the same meaning as "covered electronic device"
as defined in Section 22a-629 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
All putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from
the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
Any glass container used to package food or beverage products
suitable for human or animal consumption.
Grass and other trimmings from the care of a lawn, with a
minimum of contamination by pesticides.
Pathological, biological, cesspool or other human wastes,
human and animal remains, radioactive, toxic, and other hazardous
wastes which, according to federal, state or local rules or regulations
from time to time in effect, require special handling in their collection,
treatment or disposal, including those regulated under 42 U.S.C. §§ 6921
to 6925 and regulations thereunder adopted by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency pursuant to the Resource Conservation Act of 1976,
90 Stat. 2806, 42 U.S.C. § 6901, such as cleaning fluids,
crank-case oils, cutting oils, paints, acids, caustics, poisons, drugs,
fine powdery earth used to filter cleaning fluid and refuse of similar
nature.
A high-density polyethylene bottle or jar used to package
food, household laundry products, or crankcase oil. The acronym "HDPE"
and the code number "2" appear on the base of these containers.
A facility which can recycle any item or items and market
or deliver for reuse the resulting material product or products.
The foliage of trees, bushes, and other plants with a minimum
of contamination by rocks, sticks or branches, plastic and pesticides.
Catalogs, magazines, or other similar printed matter.
An aluminum, bi-metal, steel, tin-plated steel, or other
metallic cans, or any plate or tray used to package food or liquid
products suitable for human or animal consumption.
Solid waste from residential, commercial, and industrial
sources, excluding hazardous waste, approved recyclable items, bulky
waste, sewage sludge, and scrap metal, as determined by DEP.
Any used or discarded unsoiled newsprint, including all parts
of the newspaper.
Any source of solid waste that is not considered "residential."
Business, hospitals, motels, hotels, and schools are examples of nonresidential
sources.
A person, or a person's agent or employee, who has obtained a permit pursuant to Article III.
Any institution, public or private corporation, individual,
partnership, or other entity.
A polyethylene terephthalate container used to package beverages.
The acronym "PET" and code number "1" appear on these containers.
Materials which have been so designated to include, but not
be limited to, those materials designated as recyclable under the
Connecticut General Statutes, as amended, and the regulations of the
DEP, as amended, including, but not limited to, newsprint, glass jars
and bottles, cans (aluminum and other metals), corrugated boxes, cardboard,
cardboard cartons, waste motor oil, plastic polyethylene terephthalate
and high-density polyethylene, car batteries, office paper, computer
paper, scrap metal, and other items which may now or in the future
be designated as recyclable by the Department of Energy and Environmental
Protection.
The processing of solid waste to reclaim material therefrom.
A specifically marked container for collecting recyclable
materials separate from the solid waste collection.
A set of requirements adopted and amended from time to time
by resolution of the Town Council as to the collection and disposal
of municipal solid waste at Town facilities.
Each individual home or a group of rooms located within a
structure comprising a single, habitable unit used, or intended to
be used, for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating, and so occupied
by one family.
Any ashes, cans, bottles, earth, wire, glass, broken kitchenware,
appliances, boxes, papers, mattresses, and other materials of like
nature that is not garbage nor recyclable materials.
The schedule adopted and amended from time to time by the
Town Council.
Used or discarded items made of ferrous metals, aluminum,
brass, copper, lead, chromium, tin, nickel, or alloys thereof including,
but not limited to, appliances and metal containers.
Discarded rubber or synthetic rubber tires.
Unwanted or discarded materials consistent with the meaning
of that term pursuant to Section 22a-260(7) of the Connecticut General
Statutes, excluding semisolid or liquid materials collected and treated
in a sewerage system.
Includes any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business
of collecting and transporting commercial, household or industrial
solid waste for hire within the Town of East Hampton.
Any facility approved by the Town for ultimate disposal of
wastes.
To separate recyclable materials from the solid waste stream
at the point of waste generation.
The Town of East Hampton, a municipal corporation located
in Middlesex County, in the State of Connecticut.
The Town Manager or any other Town employee as the Town Manager
may designate.
The solid waste transfer facility area or areas within the
Town as designated by the Town Council.
Crankcase oil that has been utilized in internal combustion
engines.
Used or discarded high-grade white paper including, but not
limited to, white paper utilized for envelopes, writing, typing, printing,
green bar computer printer, and photocopying which is suitable for
recycling and which has a minimum of contamination. Office paper generated
by households is excluded.
Leaves, grass clippings, branches, and other vegetation matter.
All property owners shall remove or cause to be removed by a
solid waste collector licensed by the Town of East Hampton all solid
waste accumulations from their property for disposal at a properly
licensed and permitted disposal site or transfer station. Solid waste
must be removed on a regular basis to prevent unhealthy, unsafe or
otherwise deleterious accumulation and in accordance with the requirements
of this chapter.
Collection, removal and disposal of solid waste accumulations
shall be in accordance with the following conditions:
A.
Solid waste shall only be set out for collection and/or removed when
it is stored in Town-approved containers and is properly placed along
a Town-owned or stateowned public right-of-way, in the right-of-way
of an approved subdivision road not presently accepted or at another
location on the property owner's property upon mutual agreement
with the solid waste collector.
B.
All solid waste and recycling containers must be kept reasonably
clean and stored in such a place so as not to constitute a nuisance
or otherwise be objectionable.
C.
Solid waste shall not be allowed to accumulate, and collection service
must be provided on a regular and continuing basis.
D.
Solid waste containers may not be placed at curbside prior to 40:00
p.m. the day before scheduled collection and must be removed from
curbside no later than 7:00 a.m. the day after collection.
E.
Items designated as recyclables shall be separated and placed for
collection in accordance with this chapter.
F.
Solid waste placed curbside for collection shall not include any
item deemed unacceptable under applicable law or by the solid waste
collector.
G.
Material of a size or type contrary to rules and regulations of the
Town of East Hampton or the solid waste collector or material that
has not been prepared, bound, containerized and/or placed for collection
in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Town of East Hampton
or the solid waste collector shall not be considered acceptable for
curbside collection.
H.
Materials not placed for curbside collection, including, but not
limited to, hazardous waste, electronic waste, bulky waste, and yard
waste, shall be disposed in accordance with applicable laws, rules
and regulations.
I.
Any solid waste or rubbish left in public view not in accordance
with the provisions of this article shall be deemed a public nuisance
and a violation of the article.
Any person who generates solid waste shall separate recyclables
from nonrecyclables in accordance with state law and the requirements
of the solid waste collector or the facility collecting and/or processing
the recyclable material. No person shall dispose of recyclables except
in accordance with this article.
Every person owning or operating multifamily units, public housing
units, commercial, industrial, or other nonresidential premises where
recyclables are created or generated shall provide, or cause to be
provided, sufficient areas and/or receptacles on the premises for
the separation and storage of recyclable materials. All recycling
receptacles must be clearly labeled.
Violations of any provisions of this article shall be an infraction.
Any person who violates any provisions of this article shall be fined
an amount not to exceed $100 for each offense. Each day on which an
offense occurs shall be deemed a separate offense.
