Ridgewood, NJ Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

Village of Ridgewood Code Section 165-42 extends the Chapter 165, Article IV recycling mandate specifically to multiunit residential properties. Effective November 15, 1990, compliance with all the article's separation and preparation requirements, covering newspaper, mixed paper, cardboard, metal and glass containers, plastic containers, and vegetative waste, became mandatory for owners, lessees, and occupants of garden apartment, condominium, cooperative, and townhouse residential properties, not just single-family homes. The section places the operational burden on the building side of the relationship rather than individual tenants: it is the obligation of the apartment complex owner or the condominium, cooperative, or townhouse association to provide an on-site storage and collection point for the recyclable materials generated by the property.

The Recycling Coordinator and the property owner or association representative are jointly responsible for determining the schedule and method used to collect the separated materials from that on-site point, rather than relying on the standard single-family curbside pickup described elsewhere in the article. This structure recognizes that multifamily buildings cannot practically put individual bins at each unit's curb, so the ordinance shifts the logistics of storage and collection scheduling onto the property itself while keeping residents responsible for source-separating their recyclables under Section 165-40.