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-_r~, .draft #9--clean-I1-16-2000 _. = - <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 aiat~erial, <br />(3) reuse, (4) sale or (5) other means that allow for the safe recycling of the material. <br />4. No person shall discard, dispose of, leave or dump any regulated recyclable material on ar <br />along any street or highway or an 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 ar 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. A,ny 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 far the collecting or transporting. <br />6. No person may dispose of solid waste through open burning im Orange County. <br />7. Na person may contaminate regulated recyclable materials sa as to make them umecyclable. <br />SECTION IV.: LICENSING COLLECTORS OF REGULATED RECYCLABLE <br />MATERIAL. <br />1. A,ny 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. Each vehicle used by the licensed <br />collector or hauler must be registered with the Department. The cost of registering each <br />vehicle ~Ysed to collect or haul regulated recyclable material pursuant to a regulated recyclable . <br />material collection license shall be $~5. <br />A. Collecting or otherwise hauling regulated recyclable material within the County in <br />any vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of nine thousand (9000) pounds ar greater <br />without a valid license constitutes a violation of this ordinance, <br />~ Additional mat s ~ be added to the i~t~of re~la,_ted recxclable materials, ' c udin but dot limited <br />to: alum'"~ drink boxes, kraft paper, glass bottles and jars, magazines, ferrous and nonferrous scrap <br />metals other than recyclable construction and demolition material, used motor oil, newspaper, office paper, <br />scrap paper, plastic bottles including mills jugs, soda bottles, steel and tin cans, telephone directories, food <br />waste when exch~sively source-separated fox composting. <br /> <br />