Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) The plan shall describe and evaluate:
(1) The kind and weight or volume of
materials that could be recycled, giving consideration, at a minimum, to the
following materials: clear glass, colored glass, aluminum, steel and bimetallic
cans, high grade office paper, newsprint, corrugated paper, plastics, other
marketable grades of paper and leaf waste.
(2) Potential benefits of waste reduction or
recycling, including the potential solid waste reduction and the avoided cost
of municipal waste processing or disposal.
(3) Existing materials recovery operations
and the kind and weight or volume of materials recycled by the operations,
whether public or private.
(4) The
compatibility of recycling with other municipal waste processing or disposal
methods, giving consideration to and describing anticipated and available
markets for materials collected through municipal recycling programs.
(5) Proposed or existing collection methods
for recyclable materials.
(6)
Options for ensuring the collection of recyclable materials.
(7) Options for the processing, storage and
sale of recyclable materials, including market commitments.
(8) Options for municipal cooperation or
agreement for the collection, processing and sale of recyclable
materials.
(9) A schedule for
implementation of the recycling program for mandated municipalities and other
parts of the county.
(10) Estimated
costs of operating and maintaining a waste reduction and recycling program,
estimated revenue from the sale or use of materials and avoided costs of
processing or disposal. This estimate shall be based on a comparison of public
and private operation of some or all parts of the recycling program.
(11) What consideration for the collection,
marketing and disposition of recyclable materials will be accorded to persons
engaged in the business of recycling on the date that the county issued its
notice of plan revision under §
272.203 (relating to notice of
municipalities) whether or not the persons are operating for profit.
(12) A public information and education
program that will provide comprehensive and sustained public notice of waste
reduction and recycling program features and requirements.
(b) A county containing municipalities that
are required by Subchapter E (relating to municipal recycling programs) to
implement recycling programs shall take the provisions of that subchapter into
account in preparing the recycling portion of its plan. For these counties, the
plan shall:
(1) Identify the municipalities
that have mandatory or voluntary recycling programs.
(2) Identify municipalities that have
delegated to the county their responsibilities under Subchapter E.
(3) Explain how recycling under the plan will
be coordinated with, and will not interfere with, municipal recycling under
Subchapter E.
(c) Nothing
in this subchapter prohibits the preparation of a county municipal waste
management plan revision prior to developing and implementing a recycling
program required by Subchapter E, nor does this subchapter prohibit the
preparation or implementation of a municipal recycling or waste reduction plan
prior to the approval of the county plan revision.
This section cited in 25 Pa. Code §
272.204 (relating to format of
plans); and 25 Pa. Code §
272.252 (relating to development
of plan revisions).
