West New York, NJ Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

Section 306-2 of the Town of West New York Code establishes three mandatory recycling programs. The first applies to dwelling units, defined in § 306-1 as one-, two- or multifamily homes, apartments or high-rises, condominiums and cooperatives, and requires the composting of leaves and the separation of newspapers, aluminum cans and glass food and beverage containers. The second applies to commercial and industrial establishments and requires separation of designated recyclable materials such as clean corrugated cardboard, high-grade paper, mixed paper and glass and aluminum containers. The third applies to public and private institutions, which include municipal and state government facilities, religious, educational and health-care facilities and nonprofit civic organizations, and requires separation of high-grade paper, mixed paper and clean corrugated cardboard. Section 306-2(B) adds that any tavern or restaurant having a liquor license must have a private recycler remove recyclable materials.

Section 306-3(A) puts the duty on all owners, lessees or occupants to dispose of solid waste and separate designated recyclables, and the Town can grant exemptions to physically disabled natural persons. Items designated by the town's Recycling Coordinator must be separated from the garbage. The Recycling Coordinator is authorized to negotiate collection contracts or put them out to bid under the Local Public Contracts Law, and the Town can use its own personnel instead (§ 306-3(C) and (D)). The ordinance recites that it implements the 1987 Statewide Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act and the Hudson County Solid Waste Recycling Plan. Anyone running a private recycling program instead of the Town's must submit monthly tonnage verification to the Recycling Coordinator within 20 days after the end of the month, and failure can end the program at the Coordinator's option (§ 306-7).