Plainfield, NJ Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Section 9:10-1A of the Plainfield Municipal Code sets what a resident pays to unload bulk waste at the Refuse Transfer Station. The printed schedule charges $50 per cubic yard for bulk waste, $10 per cubic yard for yard and tree waste, and $2 per tire. The Director of the Department of Public Works and Urban Development sets the fees for those items based on the cost of tipping, actual operating costs and disposal costs.

The code defines bulk waste by the handling it needs. It is solid waste from residential sources which because of its size or weight requires handling other than normally used for regular household garbage. The definition lists carpeting, rugs, furniture, large appliances, wooden panels, beams, planks or fencing, and reaches only non-putrescible or non-hazardous waste. Garbage is defined separately as putrescible animal and vegetation waste from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food. Yard waste means leaves, grass clippings and other small vegetative garden debris, and tree parts include brush, twigs, branches, tree limbs and stumps.

The residential rate is closed to businesses. Commercial sources include restaurants, markets, retail and wholesale outlets, theaters, hotels, warehouses, schools, clinics, hospitals, houses of worship, non-municipal offices, and auto repair or gas stations. The charges also do not allow disposal from sources outside the City of Plainfield. Residential sources are households and other dwelling units.

Section 9:10-1 prints a second schedule for dumping at the station, priced by vehicle type, with separate resident and non-resident columns for weekdays and for holidays and weekends, plus $5.00 for each additional cubic yard. Cartmen and scavengers licensed by the Public Utilities Commission of New Jersey pay $1.60 per cubic yard, and vehicles owned by the City pay $1.10. Section 9:10-2 directs the Director to promulgate administrative regulations on collecting the charges and on depositing and reporting them. Separately, § 12:10-4 lists large bulky items such as furniture, bound carpet and padding and white goods placed outside for pickup among the exceptions to the dumpster-cover rule.