The following words and phrases used throughout this article shall have the following meanings:
(a) "Act means the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act of 1988.
(b) "Aluminum" means all empty aluminum beverage or food cans.
(c) "Bi-metal container" means all empty food or beverage containers consisting of steel and aluminum.
(d) "Collector" means the entity or entities authorized by the Municipality to collect recyclable materials from residences, or authorized by commercial, municipal and institutional establishments that do not receive collection services from the Municipality to collect recyclable materials from those properties.
(e) "Commercial establishments" means those properties used primarily for commercial or industrial purposes.
(f) "Community activities" are events that are sponsored by public or private agencies or individuals that include but are not limited to fairs, bazaars, socials, picnics and organized sporting events attended by 200 or more individuals per day.
(g) "Corrugated paper" means structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid parallel furrows and ridges.
(h) "Ferrous containers" means empty steel or tin coated food or beverage containers.
(i) "Glass containers" means empty bottles and jars made of clear, green or brown glass. Expressly excluded are noncontainer glass, plate glass, automotive glass, light bulbs, blue glass and porcelain and ceramic products.
(j) "High grade office paper" means all white paper, bond paper and computer paper used in commercial, institutional and municipal establishments and in residences.
(k) "Institutional establishments" means those facilities that house or serve groups of people including but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanges, day care centers, schools and universities.
(l) "Lead Acid Batteries" include but are not limited to automotive, truck and industrial batteries that contain lead.
(m) "Leaf waste" means leaves from trees, bushes and other plants, garden residues, shrubbery, and tree trimmings, but not including grass clippings.
(n) "Magazines and periodicals" means printed matter containing miscellaneous written pieces published at fixed or varying intervals. Expressly excluded are all other paper products of any nature whatsoever.
(o) "Multi-family housing properties" means any properties having three or more dwelling units per structure.
(p) "Municipal establishment" means public facilities operated by the Municipality and other governmental and quasi-governmental authorities.
(q) "Municipal waste" means any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or 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 in the Solid Waste Management Act from a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply treatment plant, waste-water treatment plant or air pollution control facility. The term does not include source-separated recyclable materials.
(r) "Municipality" means the Borough of White Oak.
(s) "Newspapers" means paper of a type commonly referred to as newspaper and distributed at fixed intervals, having printed thereon news and opinions, containing advertisements and other matters of public interest. Expressly excluded are newspapers which have been soiled, color comics, glossy advertising inserts and advertising inserts printed of color other than black and white often included with newspapers.
(t) "Person(s)" means owners, lessees, and occupants of residences and commercial, municipal and institutional establishments.
(u) "Plastic containers" means empty plastic food and beverage containers. Due to the wide variety of types of plastics, the Municipality may stipulate specific types of plastic which may be recycled.
(v) "Recyclable materials" shall initially mean clear glass, colored glass, aluminum, and steel and bimetallic cans. The recyclable materials may be revised by resolution from time to time as deemed necessary by the Municipality.
(w) "Recycling" means 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 (other than through combustions) and creation and recovery of reusable materials.
(x) "Residences" mean any occupied single or multi-family dwellings having up to two dwelling units per structure for which the Municipality provides municipal waste collection service.
(y) "Source separated recyclable materials" mean those materials separated at the point of origin for the purpose of being recycled.
(z) "Waste" means a material whose original purpose has been completed and which is directed to a disposal or processing facility or so otherwise disposed. The term does not include source separated recyclable materials or materials approved by the Pa. Department of Environmental Resources for beneficial use.
(Ord. 2872. Passed 11-19-90.)