LITTER CLEANUP & REMOVAL: The work covered by this section includes litter clean up, recycling and removal within the State Maintained Highway System Right of Way. The work shall include the furnishing of all tools, materials, transportation and labor necessary for the prosecution and completion of the work. No separate payment will be made for providing, installing, and maintaining traffic control devices, etc., or for any other cost associated with maintaining the control of traffic. Traffic control will be considered incidental to the contract, and will be included in the Bid Items as listed on the Contract Bid Form. A. CLEAN UP The clean-up operation shall include the picking up, recycling and removing of litter and the disposal of such matter into a state approved landfill or single-stream recycling facility. Items for clean-up may consist of varied sizes of bottles, cans, paper, tires, tire pieces, lumber, vehicle parts, metal junk, brush and other items not considered normal to the right of way. All collected litter that is small enough to be placed in a bag shall be bagged immediately. All bags and collected litter that is too large for a bag shall be placed into a vehicle and removed from the right of way at the end of each day’s operation. At no time shall bags be allowed to remain beyond the end of the work day. If at any time an object is too large to be removed by normal means and equipment is necessary to remove object, the Contractor shall notify the Inspector, and DOT forces will remove the object. The designated area for cleanup is the entire normal cut area around bridges, culverts, and pipes, guardrails, and areas as directed by the Engineer. The Contractor will not be responsible for the clean-up and removal of large dead animals. If this situation is encountered, contact the Engineer. B. RECYCLING The Contractor’s attention is directed to North Carolina General Statute 130A-309.10 (f) though (l). Per this statute, the Contractor performing litter clean up and removal shall be required to recycle. In an effort to align with efforts by the Department to recycle with litter removal, the Contractor shall participate in single-stream recycling. The Contractor shall be responsible for locating single-stream recycling facilities and utilizing them during the durations of the highway clean-up work. The Contractor shall utilize blue bags, similar to those used by the Department, for collection of materials appropriate for recycling. C. HAZARDOUS, CONTAMINATED AND/OR TOXIC MATERIAL When the Contractor’s operations encounter or expose any abnormal condition which may indicate the presence of hazardous, contaminated, and/or toxic material, such operations shall be discontinued in the vicinity of the abnormal condition and the engineer shall be notified immediately. D. REMOVAL & DISPOSAL OF DEBRIS Removal and disposal of all materials shall be the responsibility of the Contractor. Disposal of the materials shall be done in either a public or private sanitary landfill approved by the State of North Carolina Solid Waste Management Division. Clean up shall not be considered accepted by the Department until the original “DUMPING TICKET” issued to the Contractor for disposing the materials picked up during the assigned work is presented to the Department’s inspector
