§ 18-29. Same—Buildings with five or more dwelling units

(a) Recyclable waste shall not be collected from buildings containing five or more dwelling units. Owners of these buildings shall be responsible to provide collection and disposal of recyclable waste which will be banned from landfills as provided in Wisconsin Act 335 (Wis. Stats. ch 287). Items included in Wisconsin Act 335 are: aluminum containers, corrugated paper or other containers, magazines, or other material printed on similar paper, newspaper or other material printed on newsprint, office paper, rigid plastic containers, steel containers, bi-metal steel/aluminum containers for carbonated and malt beverages. All owners or designated agents of these buildings are required to do all the following:

(1) Notify tenants in writing at the time of renting or leasing the dwelling and at least semiannually thereafter about the established recycling program;

(2) Provide adequate, separate containers to tenants for the separation of recyclable waste included in the 1995 ban;

(3) Provide for the collection and recycling of recyclable materials separated from solid waste by the tenants, and the delivery of the materials to a recycling facility; and

(4) Notify tenants of reasons to reduce and recycle solid waste, which materials are collected, how to prepare the materials in order to meet processing requirements, collection methods or sites, relocations and hours of operation and a contact person, including a name, address and telephone number.

(b) All owners of these buildings are required to comply with state statutes which ban the items listed above from landfills and incineration.

(c) The requirements specified in subsection (a) of this section do not apply to the owners or designated agents of multifamily dwellings if the solid waste generated within the dwellings is treated at a processing facility licensed by the department of natural resources that recovers for recycling the materials specified in section 18-27(a)(5)—(16) from solid waste in as pure a form as is technically feasible.

(Code 2006, § 8.08(A)(5))