(A) Recycling encouraged. Each person who owns, leases, or manages a residence, residential unit, or place of business, industry, commerce, or other place providing goods or services, or institution, church, camp, or school is strongly encouraged to remove recyclable materials from solid waste generated and make them available for recycling.
(B) Containers. The town provides each residence with a 95-gallon container. These containers are to be used for recycling materials only, and will be picked up once every two weeks by town staff. The containers remain the property of the town and remain with the residence if ownership is transferred. Anyone found to remove the container from the residence in violation of this section shall be charged the prevailing cost of a replacement container.
(C) Recyclable materials. Recyclable material shall consist of the following items and shall be prepared for recycling, prior to deposit in the town’s recycling containers, as directed:
(1) Jars and bottles. All brown, clear, and green container (bottles and jars) glass));
(2) Cans. Aluminum beverage and bimetal (tin or steel) food cans;
(3) Plastic containers. Plastic containers No. 1 PETE (soda containers) and No. 2 HDPE (milk and shampoo containers) and No. 3, 5, and 7 (mixed plastic);
(4) Corrugated containers and cardboard. Must be flattened;
(5) Newspapers. May be bundled with string or left loose. Inserts may remain; and
(D) Prohibitions.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or deposit at the town’s recycling containers any recyclable material unless all such material can fit entirely within the appropriate container.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or deposit in the town’s recycling containers any recyclable material of any type that was generated outside the corporate limits of the town.
(3) No person, other than persons authorized by the town, may remove recyclable material from a recycling container.
(2013 Code, § 9-13) Penalty, see § 51.99