Cherry Hill, NJ Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)
Key Facts
- Collection frequency
- solid waste and recycling weekly
- Set-out window
- 5:30 p.m. night before to 7 a.m.
- Container removal
- within 12 hours after pickup
- Placement
- within 3 feet of curb, handles facing house
- Collection points
- one per residential address
- No pickup
- vacant, under-construction, or no-CO properties
Summary
Cherry Hill Township collects residential solid waste and recyclables once a week, and containers may only go out between 5:30 p.m. the evening before pickup and 7:00 a.m. on collection day. Empty containers must come back in within twelve hours of pickup, and each address gets only one collection point.
Time and Placement for Collection. Residential solid waste and recyclables shall not be permitted to be placed at the collection point earlier than 5:30 p.m. on the evening before the scheduled collection day for that location nor shall empty solid waste and recyclable containers remain at the collection point longer than twelve (12) hours after the regular collection time for that location. All solid waste and recyclables must be placed at the collection point prior to 7:00 a.m. on the scheduled collection day.
Full Breakdown
5, Collection Schedule, lets the Mayor or a designee set the pickup calendar, with no collection on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving or Christmas; both recyclables, which include yard waste, and solid waste are collected once a week under the Township's collection contract. Subsection (d), Time and Placement for Collection, sets the window for putting containers out. 7, Points of Collection, requires Township-issued green trash carts and blue recycling carts to sit in the roadway no more than three feet in front of the curb, spaced at least three feet from obstructions, with handles facing the house; only one collection point is allowed per residential user, and no collection is provided to dwellings under construction, vacant, or lacking a valid certificate of occupancy.
8, Preparation of Residential Solid Waste, requires waste to go into the Township-issued ninety-six or sixty-four gallon green containers, or, in areas unsuited to automated collection, owner-supplied containers holding between fifteen and fifty gallons. 6 separately makes source separation of recyclables from solid waste mandatory.
Violations & Fines
Putting mixed or improperly separated solid waste and recyclables out violates § 19-2.6a; under § 19-2.6b the Township may educate, warn, or issue a summons, or its contractor may simply decline to collect improperly separated materials. Setting containers out earlier than 5:30 p.m. the night before pickup, contrary to § 19-2.5d, is likewise a violation of the collection program.
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