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§ 96-5 Waste delivery and disposal; source separation.
§ 96-6 Collection of recyclables placed at curbside.
§ 96-8 Approval, denial, suspension or revocation of solid waste license.
§ 96-9 Enforcement; penalties for offenses.
This chapter shall be known as the "Solid Waste Management Law."
Removal of certain materials from the solid waste stream will decrease the flow of solid waste to landfills, aid in the conservation of valuable resources, and reduce the required capacity of existing and proposed resource facilities.
The New York Solid Waste Management Act of 1988 requires that municipalities adopt a local law or ordinance by September 1, 1992, to require that solid waste which has been left for collection or which is delivered by the generator of such waste to a solid waste management facility, shall be separated into recyclable, reusable or other components for which economic markets for alternate uses exist.
To implement the express policy of the State of New York encouraging solid waste reduction through recycling.
Editor's Note: See General Municipal Law § 120-w.
Editor's Note: This law amended several statutes.
The Solid Waste Administrator of Monroe County.
Any person licensed to collect and transport recyclable materials generated or originated within the county.
A permitted facility or facilities for processing recyclable materials specified in the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter. This term shall exclude incinerating facilities, waste-to-energy facilities and landfills.
County-provided blue box container with a county logo for recyclable materials or any other durable container for recyclable materials readily identifiable by the hauler as a container for recycling materials.
The County Executive of Monroe County.
Any solid waste management-resource recovery facility employed beyond the initial solid waste collection process which is to be used, occupied or employed for or is incidental to the receiving, transporting, storage, processing, or disposal of solid waste or the recovery by any means of any material or energy product or resource therefrom, including recycling centers, transfer stations, processing systems, resource recovery facilities, sanitary landfills, plants and facilities for composting or landspreading of solid waste, secure land burial facilities, reprocessing and recycling facilities, surface impoundments and waste oil storage, incinerators, and other solid waste disposal, reduction or conversion facilities.
Any hazardous waste as defined under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., or hazardous substance as defined under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., or hazardous waste as defined under New York Environmental Conservation Law § 27-0901 et seq., as each such law may be amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, and any analogous or succeeding federal, state or local law, rule or regulation and any regulations promulgated thereunder and any other material which any governmental agency or unit having appropriate jurisdiction shall determine from time to time cannot he processed at the facility because it is harmful, toxic or dangerous.
Any material, substance, by-product, compound, or any other item generated or originated within the county and separated from solid waste at the point of generation for separate collection, sale, external reuse or reprocessing and/or disposition other than by disposal in landfills, sewage treatment plants or incinerators. Other recoverable materials do not include recyclable materials as defined herein.
Any natural person, partnership, association, joint venture, corporation, estate, trust, association, county, city, town, village, improvement district, governmental entity or other legal entity.
Aluminum products and containers fabricated primarily of aluminum and commonly used for soda, beer, beverages or other food or drink products and other aluminum products.
Woodpulp-based material which is usually smooth on both sides but with no corrugated center. Excludes material with wax coating.
Wood-pulp material which is usually smooth on both sides with corrugated center. Commonly used for boxes. Excludes material with wax coating.
Material resulting from the construction, renovation, equipping, remodeling, repair and demolition of structures and roads and material consisting of vegetation resulting from land clearing and grubbing, utility line maintenance and seasonal and storm related cleanup. Such material includes, but is not limited to, bricks, concrete and other masonry materials, soil, rock, wood, wall coverings, plaster, drywall, plumbing fixtures, non-asbestos insulation, roofing shingles, asphaltic pavement, glass, plastics, electrical wiring and components, carpeting, foam padding, linoleum, and metals that are incidental to any of the above.
New and used glass good and beverage containers which have been rinsed and are free of food contamination, including clear (flint), green and brown (amber) colored glass bottles. Glass shall not include ceramics, plate glass, auto glass, Pyrex, leaded glass, mirrored glass or flat glass.
Magazines, glossy catalogs, and other glossy paper.
White and colored office bond, duplicating paper, computer paper, and other high-quality paper.
Stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers, dryers, washing machines, water heaters and other large appliances and scrap metal, and excluding air conditioners, microwaves and televisions.
Containers fabricated primarily of steel or tin, or bimetal cans of steel, tin and/or aluminum, but not including aluminum cans.
Common, inexpensive machine-finished paper made chiefly from woodpulp and used for newspapers. This term excludes magazines.
Including high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), polystyrene, and polyethylene terepthalate (PET). Commonly used for soda, milk and other containers.
Including logs, pallets and other wood materials.
Grass clippings, leaves, branches up to four inches in diameter, and other like vegetative garden materials.
Any method, technique or process utilized to separate, process, modify, convert, treat or otherwise prepare solid waste so that its component materials or substances may be beneficially used or reused as raw materials.
All putrescible and non-putrescible solid wastes generated or originated within the county, including, but not limited to, materials, or substances discarded or rejected, whether as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess to the owners at the time of such discard or rejection or for any other reason, or are being accumulated, stored, or physically, chemically or biologically treated prior to being discarded, have served their intended use, or are a manufacturing by-product, including, but not limited to, garbage, refuse, and other discarded solid materials, including solid waste materials, resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations and from community activities, sludge from air or water pollution control facilities or water supply treatment facilities, rubbish, ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator residue, demolition and construction debris and offal, but not including sewage and other highly diluted water-carried materials or substances and those in gaseous form, or hazardous waste as defined in this chapter.
The segregation of recyclable materials and other recoverable materials from solid waste at the point of generation for separate collection, sale or other disposition.
Includes source separation, recycling programs, changes to the packaging portion of the waste stream to reduce solid waste generated, the activities and enterprises of scrap dealers, processors and consumers and other programs designed to reduce the volume of solid waste or enhance reclamation and recovery of solid waste or recyclable materials otherwise destined for the municipal waste stream. For purposes of this definition, such reduction programs shall not include the processing of waste for incineration or disposal by other means.
Prior to initial collection or transport, such solid waste shall be source separated into recyclable, reusable or other components for which economic markets exist.
Recyclable materials shall not be commingled with other solid waste during collection, transportation or storage following collection. The Town of Rush may order such exceptions as it determines are in the public interest.
No authorized recycling facility or waste stream reduction program shall receive recyclable materials generated or originated within the Town of Rush except as permitted by law.
Disposal of solid waste which is barred from all authorized facilities by rules, regulations or orders promulgated pursuant to Monroe County's Solid Waste Management Local Law or this chapter, or by any other law, regulation or ordinance shall not otherwise be regulated by this chapter.
No hazardous waste may be delivered to an authorized recycling facility.
Only persons who are acting under authority of the county or an authorized hauler shall collect, pick up, remove or cause to be collected, picked up or removed, any solid waste recyclable materials so placed for collection. Each such unauthorized collection, pickup or removal shall constitute a separate violation of this chapter. However, where the county or an authorized hauler has refused to collect certain recyclable materials because they have not been separated, placed or treated in accord with the provisions of this chapter, the person responsible for initially placing those materials for collection may and shall remove those materials from any curb, sidewalk or street side.
Nothing herein shall prevent any person from making arrangements for the private collection, sale or donation of recyclable materials, provided that recyclable materials to be privately collected, sold or donated shall not be placed curbside on or immediately preceding the day for collection of such recyclable materials. Any and all recyclable materials placed in a county-supplied container at curbside or at any designated collection place shall immediately become the property of the county.
All authorized haulers must enter into an authorized hauler contract with the county.
An authorized hauler sticker shall be prominently displayed on each vehicle operated by or on behalf of the authorized hauler.
When the designated public official determines that a failure to comply with this chapter may have occurred he shall recommend to the county that the authorized hauler application be denied, or the solid waste license be suspended, revoked or its holder subjected to a reprimand or that the generator or originator of the solid waste or recyclable materials be subject to sanctions or penalties as described herein.
All portions of vehicles and containers used to haul, transport or dispose of recyclable materials, including such containers placed outside of residences, shall be subject to inspection to ascertain compliance with this chapter, the County Solid Waste Management Law and the rules, regulations or orders promulgated pursuant to the County Law, by any police officer, peace officer, Code officer, and any other public official designated by the county or the Town of Rush.
Police officers, peace officers, code officers and the specified public servants are hereby authorized and directed to issue appearance tickets for violations of this chapter.
Editor's Note: See also Ch. 3, Appearance Tickets.
The Town of Rush may commence a civil action to enjoin or otherwise remedy any failure to comply with this chapter.
In addition to the civil sanctions provided herein, failure to comply with this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder shall be a violation punishable by a maximum fine of $250, imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both.
Any penalties or damages recovered or imposed under this chapter are in addition to any other remedies available at law or equity.
No penalties, fines, civil sanctions or other enforcement actions will be commenced prior to June 1, 1992, in order to permit persons regulated hereunder to come into compliance with this chapter.
The provisions of this chapter shall be effective on the same date as the County Solid Waste Management Local Law becomes effective.

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