§ 148-11. Definitions.

For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply:

ACCEPTABLE ALUMINUM CONTAINERS

Metal aluminum containers of the type commonly used for the packaging of beverages and food products.

ACCEPTABLE BIMETAL CONTAINERS

Those cans with side and bottom construction made of steel and with top construction made of aluminum.

ACCEPTABLE COMMINGLED MATERIALS

Those materials which would otherwise become municipal solid waste for municipalities as listed here, and which may be collected, separated, processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of materials or products. Acceptable commingled materials shall include acceptable metal containers and acceptable glass as here defined herein. In no event shall acceptable commingled materials include unacceptable commingled materials.

ACCEPTABLE FERROUS METAL CONTAINERS

Metal containers of the type commonly used for the packaging of beverage and food products.

ACCEPTABLE GLASS CONTAINERS

Any clear, amber and green glass container of the type commonly used for beverage and food products. Expressly exempted from this definition are glass containers used for non-beverage or non-food products such as pesticides, herbicides, or other chemicals. Light bulbs, plates, safety and mirrored glass are also not considered acceptable glass.

ACCEPTABLE METAL CONTAINERS

Metal containers (cans) of the type commonly used for beverage and food products only, and may include aluminum, tin plate steel and bimetal cans. Expressly exempted from this definition are cans utilized for the packaging of chemicals or other non-food and non-beverage products.

ACCEPTABLE MIXED PAPER

Newspapers and associated inserts and periodical magazines.

ACCEPTABLE PLASTIC CONTAINERS

Any polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic container of the type commonly used for beverage and food containers only. PET or HDPE containers utilized for non-food and non-beverage items are expressly exempted from this definition.

BATTERY

A group of two or more cells connected together to furnish electric current. For the purposes of this article, the "battery" and/or "batteries" being referred to are only for motor vehicles, including automobiles, trucks and motorcycles.

BEVERAGE CONTAINER

An individual, separate, hermetically sealed, or made airtight with a metal or plastic cap, bottle or can composed of glass, metal, plastic or any combination thereof, containing a beverage.

BEVERAGES

Milk, alcoholic beverages, including beer or other malt beverages, liquor, wine, vermouth and sparkling wine, and nonalcoholic beverages, including fruit juice, mineral water and soda water and similar nonalcoholic carbonated and noncarbonated drinks intended for human consumption.

COLLECTION UNIT

Any equipment determined to be necessary to complete the collection services described in the Recycling Plan and ordinance attached hereto and made a part hereof.

COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT

Those businesses which constitute wholesale, retail or service establishments such as restaurants, stores, markets, theaters, hotels, warehouses and offices.

CORRUGATED

Corrugated containers having liners of test liner, jute or kraft.

COUNTY RECYCLING SYSTEM

The Mercer County collection and processing system as more fully described in the Mercer County Recycling Plan and any amendments thereto attached hereto and made a part hereof.

CULLET

Crushed or shattered glass with an average particle size of one millimeter by one millimeter to two millimeters by two millimeters (+/-).

DEPARTMENT

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

DESIGNATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS

Those materials named in the approved Mercer County Recycling Plan and any amendments thereto attached hereto and made a part hereof.

END USER

The ultimate market for designated recyclable materials, which utilizes said materials as raw materials in the manufacture of new commodities.

EXISTING TRANSFER STATION

The Mercer County Improvement Authority's solid waste transfer station located in Ewing Township, New Jersey, at Block 13, Lots 3, 10, 16, 17 and 37.

FOOD PRODUCT

A food commodity packaged in any manner in advance of sale in units suitable for retail sale and which is not intended for consumption at the point of manufacture.

INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT

Those businesses which include manufacturing, industrial, and research and development entities.

MULTIFAMILY UNITS

Any building or structure of one or more stories and any land appurtenant thereto, and any portion thereof, in which three or more units of dwelling space are occupied, or are intended to be occupied by three or more persons who live independently of each other. This definition shall also mean any group of 10 or more buildings on a single parcel of land or on contiguous parcels under common ownership, in each of which two units of dwelling space are occupied or intended to be occupied by two persons or households living independently of each other, and any land appurtenant thereto, and any portion thereof. This definition shall also include apartments, townhouses, condominiums and retirement communities. "Condominiums" as used herein shall include the form of ownership of real property under a master deed providing for ownership by one or more owners of units of improvement together with an undivided interest in common elements appurtenant to each such unit.

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE STREAM

All residential, commercial and institutional solid waste generated within the boundaries of any municipality.

NONPROFIT GROUP

Those groups or organizations operating not-for-profit, such as the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, religious organizations, etc., and other types of service organizations that may on occasion conduct recycling fund-raising activities.

OFFICE PAPER

High-grade paper, fine paper, bond paper, offset paper, xerographic paper, mimeo paper, duplicator paper, and related types of cellulose material containing not more than 10% by weight of volume of noncellulose material such as laminates, binders, coatings, or saturates.

OTHER PAPER

Junk mail, cereal, cookie, cracker, dry detergent boxes, shoe boxes, juice boxes, milk and juice containers and telephone books.

PAPER

Includes all paper grades, including but not limited to newspaper, high-grade office paper, fine paper, bond paper, offset paper, xerographic paper, mimeo paper, duplicator paper, and related types of cellulose material containing not less than 10% by weight or volume of noncellulose material such as laminates, binders, coatings, or saturates.

PRIVATE RECYCLER

Any individual or group registered with the Mercer County Improvement Authority to collect recyclable materials.

RECYCLABLE CONTAINER

A container intended for the in-home storage and collection of recyclable materials, to be approved by the Mercer County Improvement Authority, and to be signed with an appropriate recycling slogan.

RECYCLABLE MATERIAL

Those materials which would otherwise become municipal solid waste, and which may be collected, separated, processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of materials or products.

RECYCLING

The activity whereby a secondary material is introduced as a raw material into a process in which it is transformed into a new product in such a manner that its original identity is essentially lost.

RECYCLING ACT

The New Jersey Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act, P.L. 1987, Chapter 102, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.1 et seq.

RECYCLING CENTER

Any facility designed and operated solely for receiving, storing, processing and transferring source-separated, nonputrescible or source-separated commingled nonputrescible metal, glass, paper, plastic containers, and corrugated and other cardboard, or other recyclable materials approved by the Department.

RECYCLING FACILITY

Any place, equipment or plant designed and/or operated for the purpose of recycling to collect, store, process or to redistribute separated waste so as to return the material to market.

SCAVENGER

Any individual or group that is not registered with the Mercer County Improvement Authority to collect recyclable materials, or an individual or group which has not been granted an exemption to the registration requirement.

SOLID WASTE

Garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and from domestic and community activities, and shall include all other waste materials, including liquids, except for solid animal and vegetable wastes collected by swine producers licensed by the State Department of Agriculture to collect, prepare and feed such wastes to swine on their own farms.

SOLID WASTE FACILITIES

Includes the plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by any person pursuant to the provisions of the Solid Waste Management Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1e-1 et seq., or any other act, including transfer stations, incinerator, resource recovery facilities, sanitary landfill facilities or other plants for the disposal of solid waste, and all vehicles, equipment and other real and personal property and rights therein and appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the collection or disposal of solid waste in a sanitary manner.

SOURCE SEPARATION

The act of segregating designated recyclable materials from residential, commercial and institutional solid waste by the generator thereof for the purpose of collection, disposition and recycling.

TIN-PLATE CANS

Those cans with a basic steel construction with an interior coating of tin.

TIRE

A continuous solid or pneumatic rubber cushion encircling a wheel usually consisting, when pneumatic, of an external rubber-and-fabric covering that contains and protects from injury an air-filled inner tube for use on a motor vehicle not for commercial use. A tire as defined herein shall have the rim removed.

UNACCEPTABLE COMMINGLED MATERIALS

Those materials which are not defined as "acceptable commingled materials."

UNACCEPTABLE MIXED PAPER

Those materials which are not defined as "acceptable mixed paper" and are unsuitable for consumption as the grade specified.

WHITE GOODS

Refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers and other appliances of steel construction.