As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Person, individual, partnership or corporation or employer or agent
thereof, including a private collector, authorized to contract or license
with the municipality to collect solid waste from residential, commercial
and institutional properties as herein defined under the terms and conditions
of this chapter.
Large items such as sofas, upholstered chairs, mattresses and box
springs, but excluding large appliances (white goods) such as refrigerators,
stoves, dishwashers, washers, dryers and similar items which are considered
recyclable.
The person, firm, agency or public body or employee or agent thereof
who is engaged in the collection of and/or transportation of solid waste.
All properties used for industrial or commercial purposes, including
but not limited to retail and wholesale establishments, apartments with four
or more units, trailer courts, offices, garages, gas stations, manufacturing
and repair establishments, banks, motels, restaurants and other similar and
related facilities.
Can, bin, box, bag or other unit used for storage of recyclable materials
and/or municipal solid waste.
Any solid waste management - resource recovery facility employed
beyond the initial solid waste collection process which is to be used, occupied
or employed for or is incidental to the receiving, transporting, storage or
processing or disposal of solid waste or the recovery by any means of any
material or energy product or resource therefrom, including recycling centers,
transfer stations, processing systems, resource recovery facilities, sanitary
landfills, plants and facilities for composting or landspreading of solid
wastes, secure land burial facilities, reprocessing and recycling facilities,
surface impoundments and waste oil storage, incinerators and other solid waste
disposal, reduction or conversion facilities.
Solid waste that is especially harmful or potentially harmful to
public health. This shall include but not be limited to explosives, toxic
materials and medical waste. For purposes of this chapter, "hazardous waste"
does not include small quantities of such waste available on a retail basis
to the homeowner (e.g. aerosol cans, pesticides, fertilizers, etc.).
An organization or establishment devoted to the promotion of a particular
object or cause, including schools, nursing homes and retirement homes, health
facilities, governmental facilities, libraries, fire halls, etc.
All putrescible and nonputrescible materials, including garbage,
refuse and other discarded solid materials, including but not limited to solid
waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations
and from community activities, Liquids, semisolids and contained gaseous materials
are hereby defined as "solid waste." It shall not include solids or dissolved
material in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources,
such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial wastewater effluents,
dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or other common water pollutants.
In addition, it shall not include hazardous waste.
Any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, institution
or other entity.
A person, firm, corporation or legal entity providing for the collection
of MSW and/or recyclable materials. No collector shall operate in the Town
of Boston unless they shall first have obtained from the Town a license therefor.
All private collectors shall be subject to such rules and regulations as may
be adopted from time to time by the Town of Boston pertaining to collection
of municipal solid waste and/or recyclable materials.
Those materials specified from time to time by resolutions of the
Town Board of the Town of Boston for separate collection in accordance with
recycling regulations. Such materials may include but are not limited to:
ALUMINUM — Aluminum products and containers fabricated
primarily of aluminum and commonly used for soda, beer, beverages or other
food or drink.
METAL CANS — Containers fabricated primarily of steel
or tin or bimetal cans of steel, tin and/or aluminum, but not including aluminum
cans.
GLASS FOOD AND BEVERAGE CONTAINERS — New and used glass
food and beverage containers which have been rinsed and are free of food contamination,
including clear (flint), green and brown (amber) colored glass bottles and
jars. "Glass" shall not include ceramics, plate glass, auto glass, Pyrex,
leaded glass, mirrored glass or flat glass.
PLASTIC FOOD AND BEVERAGE CONTAINERS — Includes high-density
polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate and such other plastic food and
beverage containers that may be designated by the Town of Boston for recycling.
NEWSPRINT — Common, inexpensive machine-finished paper
made chiefly from wood pulp and used for newspapers.
CORRUGATED PAPER — Wood-pulp-based material which is
usually smooth on both sides with a corrugated center. Commonly used for boxes;
excludes material with a wax coating.
HIGH-GRADE PAPER — White and colored office bond, duplicating
paper, computer paper and other high-quality paper.
MAGAZINES — Magazines, glossy catalogs and other glossy
paper.
LARGE APPLIANCES — Stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers,
dryers, washing machines, water heaters and other large appliances and scrap
metal, but excluding air conditioners, microwaves and televisions.
Any person residing within the Town of Boston.
Properties used as dwellings, including buildings having up to three
dwelling units in one building. Multiple dwelling residential buildings containing
four or more dwelling units, for the purpose of this chapter, shall be treated
as commercial properties.
The separation of recyclable materials, as herein defined, from other
municipal solid waste prior to placement of the same for removal by a collector.
All the circumscribed area within the boundaries of the Town of Boston.
