Lakewood, NJ – Lakewood, an area of 26 square miles, has 217 miles of Township streets. It also has thousands upon thousands of garbage receptacles – bins that, while serving town residents, belong to the Lakewood Public Works Department, which is responsible for the maintenance and repair of Township roads and sewers, Township parks and open space, snowplowing of Township streets, leaf and brush collection, and, of course, garbage and recycling collection.
It is because these bins belong to the township that several Lakewood poskim, notably Rav Shmuel Felder, a posek of Beth Medrash Govoha, have ruled that there is no halachic concern if town residents leave chometz in their trash cans on Yom Tov. Since the cans are in the reshus of the township, there is no issue of baal yeira’eh and baal yeimotzeh.
It should be noted that Pesach is a good time to clean out your bins and hose them down, which is also recommended during the warmer weather, when they bins tend to emit a foul odor when they are not cleaned or hose down.
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Please be advised that a deposit must be given to the township before they assign you a bin. Thus, it would seem that you are the renter of the bin and mechayev on bal yaraeh just as in your rented home.
At any rate, this psak inadvertently encourages a most disgusting practice. People leave their overflowing bins out in the street; an eyesore and smelly stain on the Yom Tov. By Township law a garbage receptacle must be kept behind the property line at all times except for the evening before pickup. It’s bad enough that people leave their bins in front of their homes all week and even on the front lawns and spoil the beauty of the entire block, but to add insult to injury and keep the bins out over Pesach Yom Tov takes this lack of mentschlishkeit to a new level.
do not care about for their neighbors
Hey, calm down kubby.
Does that mean it needs to be left at the curb and not on ones property
Does that mean it needs to be left at the curb and not on ones property?
Great news bh!!
What would they say if you accidentally threw out jewelry? Would they say that the township has become the owner of the jewelry and that you can not go take it back?
“v’Lo yaroeh” not a factor at all? AFTER “Lo y’matzae”.
Does that mean that if you threw out jewelry that the township now owns the jewelry and you cant go take it out of the cans?