Long Beach Township officials are asking residents to please keep household garbage and recyclables out of the municipality’s trash and recycling containers, as this has become a mounting problem in the township with the increase of people in the area this winter. The municipality has been finding homeowners’ waste stuffed into its receptacles on street ends, in parks and along the Long Beach Boulevard medians.

“These containers are placed there for the public’s use and not for homeowners’ excessive trash and recycling,” the…