Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 500-599 - Environmental Protection - Solid Waste Management › Chapter NR 544 - Effective recycling programs › Section NR 544.04 - Required components of an effective recycling program

Current through June 24, 2024
The effective recycling program of a responsible unit shall
				  include all of the following components:
(1) A public information and education
				program to address recycling of materials specified in s.
				287.07(1m)
				to (4), Stats., and waste reduction and reuse
				efforts at single family and 2 to 4 unit residences, multiple-family dwellings
				and non-residential facilities and properties. It shall include program start
				up and regular distribution of current program information, and consumer and
				youth education.
Note: Major appliances must be managed in compliance with ss.
				  285.59
				  and
				  287.07(1m),
				  Stats., and ch. NR 488.
(2)
				An ordinance that contains the provisions specified in s.
				NR
				544.06.
(3) A system which meets the provisions of s.
				NR
				544.05 for collecting from single family and 2 to 4
				unit residences the materials specified in s.
				287.07(3)
				and (4), Stats.
(4) A system for single family and 2 to 4
				unit residences which meets the provisions of s.
				NR
				544.05 for processing and marketing of the recyclable
				materials specified in s.
				287.07(3)
				and (4), Stats., which have been separated
				for recycling or recovered from solid waste in as pure a form as is technically
				feasible.
(5) Equipment and staff
				to implement the recycling program serving single family and 2 to 4 unit
				residences which may include contracting for services, staff, supplies and
				equipment from vendors.
(7) A
				requirement that owners of multiple family dwellings and non-residential
				facilities and properties or their designated agents provide for the recycling
				at their facilities and properties of materials specified in s.
				287.07(3)
				and (4), Stats.
(8) A prohibition against disposing of in a
				solid waste facility or burning in a solid waste treatment facility the
				materials specified in s.
				287.07(3)
				and (4), Stats., which have been separated
				for recycling.
(9) A means of
				adequately enforcing the requirements of the effective recycling
				program.
(9g) Beginning August 1,
				2006, a compliance assurance plan describing the procedure the responsible unit
				will follow to address at a minimum one act of non-compliance with recycling
				requirements specified in its recycling ordinance which is commonly encountered
				by the responsible unit.
(9r)
				Submittal of an annual program report that meets the requirements specified in
				s.
				NR
				544.10.
(10) Provisions for the management of the
				post consumer waste that is generated within the responsible unit and that is
				not separated or recovered for recycling in a manner consistent with the
				highest feasible solid waste management priority under s.
				287.05(12),
				Stats.
(11) A reasonable effort to
				reduce to the maximum extent feasible, the amount, by weight, of each material
				specified in s.
				287.07(3)
				and (4), Stats., that is generated as solid
				waste within the region and disposed of in a solid waste disposal facility or
				converted into fuel or burned without energy recovery in a solid waste
				treatment facility.