Cherry Hill, NJ Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

3, Yard Waste Collection Program, adopted by Ordinance No. 2005-12 on May 9, 2005, allows sweeping, raking, blowing or otherwise placing uncontainerized yard waste at the curb only during the seven days before a scheduled and announced collection, and never within ten feet of a storm drain inlet; placing it at any other time is a violation, and the responsible party must remove it. 9c adds the preparation standards: yard waste goes in biodegradable paper bags, open containers, or tied bundles placed no more than four feet behind the curb, with no bag, container or bundle exceeding fifty pounds; branches must be cut to four-foot lengths and bundled at the same fifty-pound limit.

Containers must be labeled Yard Waste, hold no more than fifty gallons, and cannot have a hinged lid. Placing any yard waste, including leaves, grass or brush, in plastic bags is separately prohibited and such bags will not be collected. Waste generated by a commercial landscaper is not collected at all; the landscaper must remove it. Municipal leaf collection specifically runs only in November and December on posted, development-by-development schedules, and loose leaf placement for that program is allowed for fourteen days before the scheduled pickup, again kept ten feet clear of storm drains.