Elizabeth, NJ Trash & Recycling: Mandatory Organics Recycling (2026)

36 establishes a separate, nonresidential recycling program covering owners and occupants of offices, commercial businesses, industries, institutions, and even temporary uses like fairs, parks, concerts, street events and other outdoor gatherings. Item 10 of that list specifically mandates separation of uncontaminated food waste in all institutional, commercial and industrial facilities serving five hundred or more meals per day, and major food processors. Smaller food-service operations below that meal threshold are not swept into the organics mandate by this provision, though they remain subject to the rest of the nonresidential list, which covers paper, glass, metal, plastics, batteries, motor oil, roofing material, asphalt and concrete, construction debris, white goods, wood, tires, electronics, fluorescent bulbs, grass, leaves and brush.

010. 100: covered facilities must report to the city annually the type of material recycled, where it was marketed or disposed of, its weight, and the name and address of the transporter used. 130 agencies as the rest of the recycling program: the recycling coordinator, police department, department of public works, department of health, welfare and housing, the Union County regional environmental health commission, and the Union County utilities authority.