Burlington County, NJ Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

Rule 26 is phrased as a request rather than the flat no person shall wording used elsewhere in the document, but it is still one of the numbered Parks System Rules and it functions within the same enforcement framework. Recycling infrastructure is not guaranteed at every property: whether cans and bottles go into a recycling receptacle depends on whether that specific park has one installed. Where a Parks System property has no recycling container, Rule 26 requires the same carry-out approach the county uses for general refuse under Rule 25, meaning a visitor cannot simply discard recyclables as ordinary trash if none is provided.

The rule is grouped under the REFUSE. POLLUTION. VANDALISM heading alongside the Carry In/Carry Out policy, the ban on depositing litter, trash, garbage, bottles, or pollutants in any Parks System property or its waters, and the prohibition on vandalizing or disturbing park property and natural features. Because Rule 26 shares that heading with mandatory provisions, discarding a recyclable as litter where no bin exists can still trigger the harder no-dumping language nearby, backed by the same disorderly-persons enforcement, Rules 36 through 38, that applies to every Parks System rule in this document.