Edison, NJ Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

Section 10-9.3 sits within Chapter 10's Property Offenses article and bans disposing of, throwing away, or discarding 'any papers, bottles, tin cans, cartons, garbage or refuse of any kind whatsoever' across a broad list of public locations: 'public streets, sidewalks, public grounds or parks, playgrounds or places of public assemblage or accommodation, including all municipally owned facilities.' A second clause in the same section separately protects Township waters, prohibiting refuse from being 'thrown into the water of any pond, stream or lake, or into waters adjacent thereto,' and further bars discharging 'any sewage or waste into the waters of any of them or pollut[ing] the waters of any of them in any manner whatsoever.' The two clauses cover different conduct, dry dumping on public land versus discharges into water bodies, but both fall under the same section number and share the same enforcement clause.

The dumping ban sits next to related Property Offenses provisions: § 10-9.2 separately bars depositing stones, glass, snow, ice or other hard or dangerous substances on a street or throwing objects at vehicles, and § 10-9.10 bars upsetting refuse or garbage containers. Chapter 12's littering provisions, relocated from the old § 10-2 to § 12-28, cover a related but distinct littering offense rather than the bulk dumping addressed here. Enforcement of § 10-9.3 is not assigned to a named officer within the text, so it falls to the Police Department under the Code's general enforcement structure.