(A) Recyclable material collection offered or required. Each hauler operating within the county shall be required to offer, either as part of basic service or alternately as an additional service, the collection of recyclable materials from any multifamily home, commercial business or institutional facility within the county and shall be required to provide the collection of recyclable materials, as part of basic service, from any single- family home, at least once every two weeks. Haulers are encouraged to provide residents of single-family homes with larger containers (35, 65 or 95 gallon carts) for collecting recyclable materials. Haulers shall provide information on how and what materials to recycle as least once every other year to customers with recycling service. Haulers shall provide a written offer to provide recycling services to commercial businesses that are not recycling at least once during the term of the contract or in the absence of a contract at least once every two years, whichever is shorter. The hauler’s written offer must include a request that the commercial business respond to the hauler’s request to provide recycling services in writing.
(B) Recyclable material collection enforcement. Each municipality located within the county may license, franchise or otherwise regulate the collection of recyclable materials within their individual jurisdictions so as to require the opportunity of any individual resident, single-family home, multifamily home, commercial business, or institutional facility to recycle recyclable materials at the curbside or other more accessible location.
(C) Collection of recyclable materials. All materials collected as recyclable materials shall not be deposited in a landfill or incinerator unless all reasonable efforts have been made to sell the recyclable material to a processor or end user.
(D) Ownership of recyclable materials. Ownership of recyclable materials set out for collection shall remain with the individual resident, single-family home, multifamily home, commercial business, or institutional facility that set out the material for collection until removal by the hauler. Upon removal of the recyclable material by the hauler, ownership shall vest in the hauler.
(E) Volume-based pricing. Each hauler operating within the unincorporated area of the county shall be required to offer volume-based pricing, utilizing either a graduated can option with the price increasing as the size of the waste can increases or a limited waste disposal program, as part of residential municipal waste collection service. Residential customers covered by collection contracts pursuant to township or county aggregated franchise agreements shall not be subject to volume-based pricing requirements.
(1977 Code, § 1:4-9) (Ord. passed - -2005; Ord. passed 6-11-2013)