Not every part of NJ looks like that. I grew up in Bergen County and that was the landscape I grew up with. Everything was always covered with trash. It was loaded with trash under every overpass and along every highway. There were random abandoned shopping carts everywhere. The Passaic river was nearby and when the tide was low you'd see kitchen and bathroom fixtures that people dumped there and more piles of garbage. I thought that's just how Jersey was. I moved to Morris County for college and the first thing that struck me was the absence of garbage. I'd never seen NJ looking that clean. I'm in Somerset County now and it's the same, I never see any garbage on the street in my town or really any of the surrounding towns. If that's really your main issue, it might be solved by just moving to a different region of the state.