[Adopted by Ord. No. 14-1986 (§ 18-2 of the Revised
General Ordinances), as amended through Ord. No. 31-1993]
As used in this section, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes aluminum containers used for soda, beer or other
beverages, and for prepared food.
Includes cardboard of the type used to make cardboard boxes,
cartons, pasteboard and similar corrugated and craft paper material.
Includes all products made from silica or sand, soda ash
and limestone, the product being transparent or translucent and being
used for packaging or bottling of various matters excluding, however,
blue glass or flat glass (commonly known as window glass), as well
as light bulbs and ceramic plates or dishes.
Includes white and/or off-white stationery, and photocopy
and computer paper.
Includes the foliage portion of trees, shrubbery and other
vegetation free of limbs, stalks, branches (twigs) and vines.
Includes magazines, catalogs, slick glossy advertising
supplements, undeliverable or advertising mail, envelopes with or
without windows, phone book white pages, wrapping paper (nonmetallic),
NCR paper (carbonless copy paper).
The following items are not acceptable for inclusion
in mixed paper: newsprint, corrugated cardboard, chipboard, blueprints,
brown paper bags, phone book yellow pages, carbon paper, plastic bags,
napkins, tissues and paper towels.
Includes pourable liquid containers such as from milk, soda,
juice, water and detergent. These containers are identified by the
symbols 1 or 2 on the bottom of the container.
Includes all garbage and rubbish normally produced by the
occupants of commercial, industrial and residential properties and
disposed of by private or public pickup.
Includes all metal containers, which are magnetic in nature,
commonly used to package food products.
It shall be mandatory for all residents who
are owners, lessees and occupants of residential properties, business
and industrial properties and of private, public and governmental
institutions and buildings, to separate leaves, glass bottles and
jars, aluminum cans, newspapers, all pourable beverage and laundry
plastic containers and mixed paper, as hereinafter defined, from all
other solid waste produced by such residences and nonresidential establishments
for collection and ultimate recycling of these materials.
Nonresidential establishments shall develop
separate handling systems for the storage and ultimate recycling of
high-grade paper (photocopy, computer paper, stationery) and corrugated
cardboard, in addition to the separation of the materials specified
above.
No person shall be permitted to place any construction,
demolition or land-clearing debris, which includes asphalt, concrete
and wood waste (specifically stumps, large tree parts, pallets, large
pieces of lumber) with other solid waste for landfill disposal. Such
items will not be taken at the landfill.
In accordance with existing state regulations
(N.J.A.C. 14A:3-11), all service stations, oil retailers and motor
vehicle reinspection stations with used oil holding tanks shall accept
up to five gallons at a time of used motor oil from persons changing
oil from cars, small trucks, lawn mowers and motorcycles and shall
post a sign informing the public that they are a used oil collection
site.
In accordance with existing state regulations
effective upon the final passage of this section, no person shall
be permitted to place, bagged, boxed, loose or otherwise, any grass
clippings at the Recycling Center. Further, grass clippings will not
be allowed to be placed in the street but must be disposed of by the
homeowner.
A.Â
The position of Recycling Coordinator is hereby created
and established within the Borough.
B.Â
The Recycling Coordinator shall be appointed by the
Mayor and Council for a term of one year expiring December 31 of each
year. The term of the person first appointed as Recycling Coordinator
shall expire December 31 of the year of that person's appointment.
C.Â
The Recycling Coordinator, subject to the approval
of the Mayor and Council, by resolution, shall establish and promulgate
reasonable rules and regulations as to the manner, days and times
for the collection, sorting, transportation, sale and/or marketing
of the recyclable material in order to encourage the preservation
of material resources while minimizing the cost of the recycling program
to the Borough.
A.Â
The Mayor and Council may use municipal personnel
to collect recyclable material set forth herein at curbside and/or
from a dropoff center and shall sell the recyclable material if a
market exists thereto pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:11-1 et seq.
B.Â
The Mayor and Council may elect to enter into agreements
with qualified persons or corporations authorizing them to collect
the recyclable material at curbside or from a dropoff center and to
sell the recyclable material, provided that the amount of money realized
exceeds the cost of collection.
A.Â
Recyclable material, as defined herein, shall be the
property of the Borough of Spring Lake once placed on the curbside
or brought to a dropoff center.
B.Â
It shall be a violation of this article for any person
unauthorized by the Mayor and Council to pick up or cause to be picked
up, the recyclable material, as defined herein. Each such collection
in violation thereof shall constitute a separate and distinct offense
punishable as hereinafter provided.
A.Â
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, any
person, firm or corporation who is owner, lessee or occupant of a
residential or nonresidential property may donate or sell recyclable
material, as defined herein, to any person, partnership or corporation
whether or not operating for profit. The person, partnership or corporation,
however, shall not pick up recyclable materials at curbside or at
a dropoff center.
B.Â
A record of the disposed recyclable material must
be submitted to this municipality of the types and quantities of materials
recycled. Weight receipts and/or letters on official company stationery
shall clearly describe the quantity and disposition of each material.
These documents shall be turned over to the Recycling Coordinator
no later than January 31 of the following year.
B.Â
Each day such violation is committed or permitted
to continue shall constitute a separate offense and be punishable
as such.
C.Â
The Recycling Coordinator and Police Department will
be used to enforce this article. Residents will be urged to report
dumping or persistent violators.
D.Â
Any person who is not a resident of the Borough of
Spring Lake who uses the recycling facility shall be deemed in violation
of this article and subject to the penalties in this section.
