West Virginia Code 22-15A-17 – Recycling plans
(a) Each county or regional solid waste authority, as part of the comprehensive litter and solid waste control plan required pursuant to the provisions of section eight, article four, chapter twenty-two-c of this code, shall prepare and adopt a comprehensive recycling plan to assist in the implementation of the recycling goals in section sixteen of this article.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 22-15A-17
- Litter: means all waste material, including, but not limited to, any garbage, refuse, trash, disposable package, container, can, bottle, paper, covered electronic devices, ashes, cigarette or cigar butt, carcass of any dead animal or any part thereof or any other offensive or unsightly matter, but not including the wastes of primary processes of mining, logging, sawmilling, farming or manufacturing. See West Virginia Code 22-15A-2
- Recyclable materials: means those materials that would otherwise become solid waste for disposal in a refuse disposal system and which may be collected, separated or processed and returned to the marketplace in the form of raw materials or products. See West Virginia Code 22-15A-2
(b) Each recycling plan required by this section shall include, but not be limited to:
(1) Designation of the recyclable materials that can be most effectively source separated in the region or county, which shall include at least three recyclable materials; and
(2) Designation of potential strategies for the collection, marketing and disposition of designated source separated recyclable materials in each region or county.