Container placement and set-out times are set by your municipality, not the county. Passaic County's district recycling plan requires each town to adopt collection rules; NJDEP's model ordinance sets recyclables between curb and sidewalk on collection days.
Passaic County itself does not regulate residential trash-bin storage or set-out times; each municipality adopts collection rules under the county-approved recycling plan. New Jersey's model source-separation ordinance, published by NJDEP for towns to adopt, specifies exactly where and when containers go to the curb. Blocking sidewalks or storing bins in public view between pickups is a municipal-ordinance matter. Check your borough, township, or city public-works schedule for bin type and set-out windows.
Set by municipal ordinance. NJDEP's model recycling ordinance authorizes fines of not less than $250 nor more than $1,000 per offense, each day a separate offense.
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