As used in this section, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALUMINUM CANS
Includes aluminum containers used for soda, beer or other
beverages, and for prepared food.
CORRUGATED CARDBOARD
Includes cardboard of the type used to make cardboard boxes,
cartons, pasteboard and similar corrugated and craft paper material.
GLASS
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.
HIGH-GRADE PAPER
Includes white and/or off-white stationery, and photocopy
and computer paper.
LEAVES
Includes the foliage portion of trees, shrubbery and other
vegetation free of limbs, stalks, branches (twigs) and vines.
MIXED PAPER
A.
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).
(1)
From schools: letterhead, colored and white
paper, construction paper, text books without hard covers, soft-cover
workbooks, envelopes and all items listed above.
(2)
From offices: fax paper, computer paper, colored
and white copy paper, letterhead, envelopes and all items listed above.
B.
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.
SOLID WASTE
Includes all garbage and rubbish normally produced by the
occupants of commercial, industrial and residential properties and
disposed of by private or public pickup.
TIN AND BIMETAL CANS
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.