The DPW is responsible for all of the infrastructure of the borough with the exception of the sewer system which is handled by our separate Department of Waste Water Treatment.. This includes our roads and trails, public property, storm water management, right-of-ways, and public buildings. It’s the Department of Public Works that handles our trash collection, leaf and brush removal and maintains our road system including cleaning the trails and snow removal.

Trash Collection Information

Trash should be placed in Borough supplied containers.

Trash is collected by Zone within the Borough. Our crews are on the road as early as 6:00 AM. Containers should be placed at the street the night before with the wheels toward the house, arrows pointing toward the street and a 4 foot clearance around the container.

Collection Day for Zone 1 is Tuesday
Collection Day for Zone 2 is Wednesday
Collection Day for Zone 3 is Thursday

Large Trash Collections - Collected on Friday’s, by appointment only. Contact DPW for scheduling.

Large Trash = television sets, beds, furniture, rugs/padding, furnaces, mowers, small machinery, bicycles, etc. All wood products must be no longer than 4 feet in length. No concrete, asphalt, bricks or stones.

DPW Drop-off - open on Saturday’s from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Acceptable materials are the same as Large Trash items. Concrete, asphalt, bricks and stones are acceptable at the drop-off. You will be required to present identification (NJ Drivers License or Voter Registration Card) to prove residence within the Borough.

Leaf Collection Information

If there is any thing we have in abundance in Medford Lakes, it’s leaves. In 1997, the Borough disposed of more than 5,359 cubic yards of leaves. And they just keep coming! But, on the bright side, they provide us with cool shade in the summer and lot’s of exercise in the fall raking them up!

All kidding aside, you can do yourself and the Borough a favor by composting leaves in place in a section of your property. You’ll save yourself the trouble of clearing leaves from those areas and save the Taxpayers the expense of Leaf Disposal.

Leaf collection begins on the main thorofares of the Borough (Stokes, Tabernacle and Tuckerton Roads as well as Lenape and Mohawk Trails) and then proceeds by voting district. Each fall the order of the voting districts is rotated so that no particular district is always first or last collected.

Vacuumed Leaf Collections - Collected in the Spring (April) and in the Fall (November). Leaves must be raked as close as possible to the roadway in a visible location. No leaf piles behind obstacles (such as trees, cars, fences, mailboxes, etc.).

Bagged Leaf Collections - Collected twice during the Summer (June and August). Leaves must be in bags that are left opened. No bags of leaves behind obstacles (such as trees, cars, fences, mailboxes, etc.).

LEAVES MUST BE OUT BY THE COLLECTION DATE TO ENSURE THAT THEY WILL BE PICKED UP.

Brush Collection Information

Stick and stones may break your bones, but the Borough only collects the sticks! In a town with as many trees as Medford Lakes, you can be sure we have a lot of brush. Especially after a big storm. For this reason we pickup brush at trail side several times a year.

Brush can be NO longer than 4 feet in length. Brush should be placed on the ground, as close to the road as possible, in a visible location. Brush will no be collected if behind obstacles (trees, mailboxes, cars, fences, etc.). Brush will not be accepted in bags of any type. Collections are in the months of January, March, June, August and October.

This year a new piece of equipment was added to provide additional brush removal and chipping capabilities. Brush can now be chipped trail side and left for the home owner for landscaping on site or the chippings can be stored at the Public Works facility for residents to use.

BRUSH MUST BE OUT BY THE COLLECTION DATE TO ENSURE THAT IT WILL BE PICKED UP.

Recycling

The Borough of Medford Lakes is helping keep our Earth cleaner through its recycling program. Curbside pickup, recycling drop off, and household hazardous waste collection are all included in our recycling efforts. Paper, cardboard, glass bottles and jars, aluminum and steel food & beverage cans, empty aerosol cans, and plastic bottles can all be placed on your curbside for recycling no later then 6 am on collection days. Our Drop off Bins are located behind the Firehouse (Stokes Road & Lenape Trail). Household Batteries may be deposited at Drop off. Used motor oil must be delivered to Public Works personnel only.