4 rules for unincorporated Gloucester County, New Jersey.
Verified from official government sources
No single Gloucester County truck collects your trash. Under N.J.S.A. 13:1E-20 the county runs the solid-waste district plan, while curbside pickup is arranged town by town — Deptford collects weekly by automated tote, Washington Township runs three separate trucks.
N.J.S.A. 13:1E-20
Within 360 days after the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, the respective boards of chosen freeholders, in the case of counties, and the Hackensack Commission, in the case of the Hackensack Meadowlands District, shall develop and formulate, pursuant to the procedures herein contained, a solid waste management plan for each respective solid waste management district.
Set-out times are municipal, not countywide. Washington Township bars putting trash or recycling at the curb earlier than 6:00 p.m. the evening before your collection day, and requires trash, recycling, and yard debris in three separate designated cans.
Bulky items run through your town — Washington Township collects bulk every Friday when set out after 6:00 p.m. Thursday, Monroe Township by trash-day rotation. Dumping instead of using these routes triggers solid-waste penalties under N.J.S.A. 13:1E-9.
N.J.S.A. 13:1E-9
The commissioner is authorized to assess a civil administrative penalty of not more than $50,000.00 for each violation provided that each day during which the violation continues shall constitute an additional, separate and distinct offense.
Recycling is mandatory in every Gloucester County municipality. New Jersey's Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.16, forces each town to adopt an ordinance requiring residents to separate designated recyclables from the trash. It is a legal duty.
N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.16
The governing body of each municipality shall adopt an ordinance which requires persons generating municipal solid waste within its municipal boundaries to source separate from the municipal solid waste stream, in addition to leaves, the specified recyclable materials for which markets have been secured and, unless recycling is otherwise provided for by the generator, place these specified recy...
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