Woodbridge, NJ Trash & Recycling: Recycling Rules (2026)

1's findings. Woodbridge implemented that county mandate locally by requiring every owner, tenant or occupant of a residence, private business, commercial, institutional or governmental property to separate sixteen categories once the Director of Public Works and Parks fixes and promulgates the effective date: newspaper, aluminum cans, glass containers, plastic containers, steel cans, corrugated paper products, cardboard paper products, mixed paper, textiles, motor oil, leaves, brush, masonry and paving material, rechargeable batteries, tires, and white goods and mixed metal. Private business, commercial, institutional and governmental properties carry four additional separation duties that residential properties do not: bulky rigid plastic items, electronics, plastic film, and fluorescent bulbs, plus wood scrap, reflecting the broader waste streams those properties generate.

3 spell out what counts within each category, for example capping BRUSH at branches and woody material no more than five inches in diameter and defining PLASTIC CONTAINERS as anything coded one through seven or unnumbered. 6, and picking through them without authorization is a separately punishable offense.