Set-out times are municipal, not countywide. Bridgewater requires carts at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on your Friday service day, positioned with the wheels toward the house, and recyclables loose inside the blue 95-gallon cart. Other Somerset towns fix their own hours.
Because collection is run by each municipality, so is the rule on when and how you put containers out. Bridgewater's contracted program is typical of the towns that run one: trash and recycling go to the curb no later than 7:00 a.m. on the Friday service day for pickup between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., the cart is set with its wheels facing the residence, and recyclables go loose inside the issued blue 95-gallon cart rather than bagged. Towns without municipal service leave placement to the schedule your private hauler sets. No single Somerset County ordinance dictates a set-out hour, so the controlling rule is whichever your municipality has adopted.
Setting containers out early or leaving them curbside past collection day draws a municipal ordinance warning and, on repeat, a local fine. Carts placed after the truck passes are simply skipped until the next scheduled day.
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