Ocean County, NJ Property Maintenance: Trash Bin Storage (2026)

Ocean County operates a dual-stream and single-stream recycling program through the Ocean County Recycling Department and the Northern (Lakewood) and Southern (Manahawkin) Recycling Centers. Trash collection is municipal (not county) — most towns contract with private haulers or run in-house crews. Toms River Ch. 368 (Nuisances, amended 4-24-2018) and similar ordinances in Brick, Lakewood, Jackson, Berkeley, Stafford, and the shore boroughs require trash and recycling containers to be stored between pickups in a garage, behind a fence, or on the side of the house screened from street view. Cans may be placed at curb the evening before or morning of collection and must be retrieved by the end of the collection day. Lids closed; bins not overflowing. Summer barrier-island rentals have compressed rules — often containers only out during rental turnover windows to control rodent and gull attraction. Seaside Heights, Point Pleasant Beach, LBI towns enforce strictly. Commercial dumpsters need full screening per zoning. HOA communities often have stricter rules and shared-dumpster facilities.