The following
words and phrases, as used in this article, shall have the meaning
ascribed to them herein, unless the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
ACT 90
The Pennsylvania Waste Transportation Safety Act of 2002
(P.L. 596, No. 90, June 29, 2002).
ACT 97
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act of 1980 (P.L.
380, No. 97, July 7, 1980).
ACT 101
The Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and
Waste Reduction Act of 1988 (Act 1988-101, July 28, 1988).
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged m a nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including, but not limited to, stores, markets, offices,
restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
Events that are sponsored by public or private agencies or
individuals that include, but are not limited to, fairs, bazaars,
socials, picnics, carnivals, and organized sporting events attended
by 200 or more individuals per day.
COUNTY
The County of Bucks, Pennsylvania.
DISPOSAL
The depositing, injecting, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of solid waste into or on the land or water in a manner that the solid waste or a constituent of the solid waste enters the environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Disposal facilities include, but are not limited to, municipal waste landfills and construction demolition waste landfills as defined by Act 101, Act 97, and/or Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) rules and regulations (e.g., 25 Pa. Code Chapters
75 and 271).
GARBAGE
Animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking and serving of foods. It does not include wastes from industrial
processing or manufacturing of food products, bodies of dead animals,
or human and animal excrement.
GOVERNING BODY
The elected officials of the Township of Bristol, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment engaged in manufacturing or production
activities, including, but not limited to, factories, foundries, mills,
processing plants, refineries, mines, and slaughterhouses.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment or facility engaged in services, including,
but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, schools and universities.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, and
similar materials, but not including grass clippings.
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING PROPERTY
Property containing more than four dwelling units in one
building, and all dwellings within the building shall have common
ownership.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
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,
and any sludge not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous
waste under Act 97 from a municipal, commercial or institutional water
supply treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, or air pollution
control facility. The term does not include any source-separated recyclable
materials.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipality, municipal authority, federal
government or agency, state institution or agency, or any other legal
entity recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. In any
provisions of this article prescribing a fine, imprisonment, or penalty
or any combination of the foregoing, the term "person" shall include
the officers and directors of any corporation or other legal entity
having officers and directors.
PROCESSING
Any technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume
or bulk of municipal or residual waste or any technology used to convert
part or all of such materials for off-site reuse. Processing facilities
include, but are not limited to, transfer facilities, recycling facilities,
composting facilities, and resource recovery facilities.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Those materials specified by the Township for separate collection
in accordance with recycling regulations. Such materials may include,
but shall not be limited to, leaf waste, yard waste, glass containers,
aluminum containers, steel containers, bimetallic containers, office
paper, newsprint, corrugated paper, and plastics.
RECYCLING
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of
metals, glass, paper, leaf waste, plastics and other materials which
would otherwise be disposed or processed as municipal waste or the
mechanized separation and treatment of municipal waste (other than
through combustion) and creation and recovery of reusable materials
other than a fuel for the generation of energy.
REFUSE
All solid wastes, except body wastes, and shall include,
but is not limited to, garbage, ashes, bulk waste and rubbish, except
that refuse shall specifically exclude hazardous waste and source-separated
recyclable materials.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
All properties used for residential purposes, regardless
of the number of dwelling units, except for multifamily housing properties.
RESIDUE
Solid materials remaining after burning, including but not
limited to ashes, metals, glass, ceramics, and unburned organic substances.
RUBBISH
Solid waste exclusive of garbage (e.g., nonrecyclable glass,
metal, paper or plastic and noncompostable plant material, wood or
nonputrescible solid waste).
SCAVENGING
The unauthorized and uncontrolled removal of any material
stored or placed at a point for subsequent collection or from a processing
or disposal facility.
SOLID WASTE
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.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
The purposeful systematic control of the storage, collection,
transportation, processing and disposal of solid waste.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
TRANSFER STATION
A fixed facility used for receiving refuse from collection
trucks and placing it in large-volume, long-haul vehicles.
TRANSPORTATION
The off-site removal of any municipal waste at any time after
generation.
YARD WASTE
Leaf waste, as defined above, and grass clippings.