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Municipal
Recycling ResponsibilitiesAccording to the
March 1993 Morris
County Solid Waste Management Plan Amendment, each Morris
County municipality was required to comply with
the following recycling responsibilities.
Recycling
Coordinator: Each town shall
designate a recycling coordinator to
oversee the recycling activities of the
municipality, maintain and compile
recycling information for submittal to
the State and County, and act as an
informational base for municipal
residents, businesses and officials. If a
town fails to designate a municipal
recycling coordinator, the County shall
assume the municipal administrator or
manager will be the acting coordinator
until one is designated. Presently, each
municipality has designated a recycling
coordinator.
Recycling
Ordinance: By December 31, 1993, each
municipality must update their recycling
ordinance to accept the source reduction
and recycling goals stipulated in this
Plan Amendment. Likewise, the ordinance
update must minimally include municipal
acceptance of the County's mandated
materials list for all sectors. The
update shall also include a description
of how the municipality plans on
achieving the recycling goals in both the
residential and commercial sector. The
municipal ordinances shall include
enforcement policies which include
inspection of garbage set out for
disposal and a minimum fine of $25.00 per
offense for recycling violators. Finally,
the municipality must provide the County
Recycling Coordinator with a certified
copy of the municipal recycling ordinance
whenever it is amended.
Documentation:
The municipality must provide
documentation in accordance with the
County Plan and State documentation
system as presented in a report prepared
by the NJDEPE entitled, 1993 Recycling
Tonnage Reporting Manual dated
December 1992. In the past, recycling
tonnages were to be provided for all
sectors to the County Recycling
Coordinator on a quarterly basis. This
responsibility shall remain in place
until the formally implementation of the
State's proposed system. In accordance
with that manual, municipalities will be
responsible to report tonnage information
(and submit weight slips) to the NJDEPE
on a semi-annual basis for specified
materials depending on how the material
is collected and processed. After
compilation, the State shall distribute
documentation data back to the County.
Finally, the municipality must present a
detailed description of the recycling
programs established at all municipal
buildings to the County Recycling
Coordinator annually.
Notification:
At least once every six months each
municipality must notify all persons
occupying residential, commercial or
institutional premises in that
municipality of the provisions of the
municipal recycling program and how each
sector may recycle its mandated
materials. This notification shall be
provided to the County Recycling
Coordinator. At least one notification a
year shall be a direct mailing to each
individual unit. This can be sent
exclusively or accompany other official
notifications such as tax or water bills.
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