Recycling is mandatory across every Somerset County municipality. New Jersey's Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.16, forces each town to adopt an ordinance requiring residents to separate designated recyclables from the trash. This is a legal duty, not a choice.
Unlike much of the country, New Jersey mandates recycling by statute, and it applies in Bridgewater, Franklin Township, Hillsborough, Bernards, Somerville, and Bound Brook alike. N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.16 requires the governing body of every municipality to adopt an ordinance compelling residents to source-separate designated recyclables — typically paper, cardboard, glass, cans, certain plastics, and leaves — for collection. The county's district recycling plan sets the designated materials, and each town enforces separation locally. Somerset County backs this up with a First Saturday drop-off program and periodic collection events. Putting recyclables in the regular trash is a violation, not a preference, and towns are directed to notify residents of the rules at least twice a year.
Throwing designated recyclables in with the trash breaks the municipal recycling ordinance every town must adopt under N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.16, drawing warnings and escalating fines set by local ordinance in municipal court.
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