Vineland, NJ Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)
Key Facts
- Mixed loads
- Collectors may refuse pickup
- First-offense response
- Warning sticker (§ 620-33)
- Scavenging set-out waste
- Unlawful (§ 620-24.C)
- Enforcing agencies
- Solid Waste, Health, L&I, Police
- Fine range
- $100 to $2,000 (§ 1-15)
Summary
In the City of Vineland, collectors cannot pick up solid waste that is mixed with visible recyclables or that carries a warning sticker flagging contamination, under City Code § 620-24, and once waste is set out for collection no one but authorized City collectors may touch, remove or scavenge it.
§ 620-24. Prohibition of collection of solid waste mixed with recyclable materials. A. It shall be unlawful for solid waste collectors to collect solid waste that is mixed with, or contains visible signs of, designated recyclable materials. It shall also be unlawful for solid waste collectors to remove for disposal those bags or containers of solid waste that visibly display a warning notice sticker or some other device indicating that the load of solid waste contains designated recyclable materials. B. It shall be the responsibility of the resident or occupant to properly segregate the uncollected solid waste for proper disposal or recycling. Allowing such unseparated solid waste and recyclables to accumulate will be considered a violation of this chapter and the local sanitary code. C. Once placed for collection in the location identified by this chapter, or any rules or regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter, no person, other than those authorized by the City, shall tamper with, collect, remove, or otherwise handle eligible solid waste or designated recyclable materials.
Full Breakdown
City Code § 620-24.A bars solid waste collectors from picking up a load that is mixed with, or shows visible signs of, designated recyclable materials, and bars them from hauling away any bag or container that carries a warning notice sticker flagging recyclables mixed into the trash. Under § 620-33, the enforcing official may post that warning sticker at his or her discretion for a first offense rather than leaving the load uncollected outright, and may inspect containers by sorting or opening bags to detect recyclables by sound or sight.
Section 620-24.B puts the burden on the resident or occupant to properly sort the rejected load for proper disposal or recycling, and lets an accumulation of unseparated waste and recyclables count as a separate violation of the chapter and the local sanitary code. Section 620-24.C further makes it unlawful for anyone other than a City-authorized collector to tamper with, collect, remove or otherwise handle solid waste or recyclables once they are set out for pickup, with each such unauthorized removal from one or more residences treated as its own offense.
Enforcement authority for these pickup rules is shared among the Department of Solid Waste, the Health Department, the Department of Licenses and Inspections and the Police Department under § 620-32.
Violations & Fines
Setting out solid waste mixed with recyclables, leaving a stickered load to accumulate uncollected, or scavenging or tampering with waste or recyclables already placed for pickup is a violation of § 620-24, punishable under § 620-34 and § 1-15 by the general penalty of $100 to $2,000 or up to 90 days in the Cumberland County Jail, with each residence's violation counted separately.
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