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DRAFT <br />17 <br />SECTION III. MANAGEMENT OF REGULATED RECYCLABLE MATERIAL. <br />1. Regulated recyclable material includes recyclable construction and demolition material, yard <br />waste, corrugated cardboard, non-reusable wood waste, and other materials as may be <br />designated as such by amendments to this ordinance.' <br />2. All regulated recyclable material generated in Orange County shall be recycled. It is a <br />violation of this ordinance for any person to dispose of regulated recyclable material except <br />as permitted in this ordinance. <br />3. Regulated recyclable material shall be sorted and disposed of through (1) delivery to a <br />recyclable waste center, (2) delivery to a licensed collector of regulated recyclable material, <br />(3) reuse, (4) sale or (5) other means that allow for the recycling of the material. <br />4. No person shall discazd, dispose of, leave or dump any regulated recyclable material on or <br />along any street or highway or on public or private property, unless such material is placed in <br />a receptacle, placed at a location designated by the County, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, <br />Hillsborough or Mebane for the deposit of regulated recyclable material, or otherwise placed <br />in possession and control of a licensed collector of regulated recyclable material. <br />5. Any person collecting or transporting regulated recyclable material for purposes of disposal <br />at an approved disposal site must do so in a manner that prevents this material from escaping <br />that vehicle or container used for the collecting or transporting. <br />6. No person may dispose of solid waste through open burning in Orange County. <br />7. No person may contaminate regulated recyclable materials so as to make them unrecyclable. <br />SECTION IV. LICENSING COLLECTORS OF REGULATED RECYCLABLE <br />MATERIAL. <br />1. Any person collecting or otherwise hauling regulated recyclable material within the County <br />in any vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of nine thousand (9000) pounds or greater must <br />obtain a regulated recyclable material collection license for each vehicle used by that person <br />from the County. <br />A. Collecting or otherwise hauling regulated recyclable material within the County in <br />any vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of rune thousand (9000) pounds or greater <br />without a valid license constitutes a violation of this ordinance. <br />B. Repeated violations may result in license suspension or revocat7on as provided in this <br />ordinance. <br />2. Any person collecting or otherwise hauling regulated recyclable material within the County <br />in any vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of nine thousand (9000) pounds or greater is <br />' dditional materials ~ be added to the list of regulated recyclable materials, includine but not 'ted <br />to: aluminum, drink boxes, haft paper, glass bottles and jars, magazines, fen-ous and nonfeaous scrap <br />metals other than recyclable construction and demolition material, used motor oil, newspaper, otlice paper, <br />scrap paper, plasric bottles including milk jugs, soda bottles, steel and tin cans, telephone directories, clean <br />wood rubble other than recyclable construction and demolition material, food waste when exclusively <br />source-separated for composting. <br />17 <br />