The objective of these programs is to get residents to leave grass clippings on the lawn when they mow as grass clippings provide a natural and healthy fertilizer for a growing lawn. The NJDEP, Bureau of Pesticide Operations and the Center for Turfgrass Science advocate this approach to lawn care. By cutting your lawn short and removing the clippings, you are robbing your lawn of its own natural fertilizer and creating a waste that must be hauled away for disposal or recycling by a truck. This, of course, adds to the negative environmental impact of this practice since disposal vehicles use fuel and produce air pollution. By cutting your lawn higher and leaving the clippings on the lawn, you can use less water, fertilizer and pesticides, and expose yourself to fewer toxic materials
(These Districts differ from FIRE and BULK Districts)
YOUR RECYCLING MUST BE PLACED AT CURBSIDE
THE NIGHT BEFORE YOUR SCHEDULED PICKUP.
RECYCLABLES MUST EITHER BE IN OUR YELLOW CONTAINERS
OR IN ANY CONTAINER CONTAINING OUR YELLOW RECYCLING STICKERS.
The recycling container shall hold only commingle goods such as tin, glass and plastic. DO NOT COVER CONTAINER.
Newspaper:
All newspaper, including Sunday supplement, tied and bundled no more than 12" high
Tin, Glass, Aluminum containers:
From solid and liquid foodstuffs.
All Plastic Containers:
From detergent, shampoo and such.
Magazines:
Tied and bundled.
Junk Mail, Office paper, Catalogs, Etc.:
In brown or plastic bag.
Corrugated Cardboard:
Cut in 2' X 2' squares, bundled and tied in no more than 1' high.
PAPER STREAM RECYCLING
Jackson residents should continue to recycle by commingling their cans, bottles and plastics in the Township issued yellow recycling container. You may now place all of the following items together in a container that is separate from your regular commingled items:
Newspaper, cardboard, junk mail, magazines, inserts, mixed paper and empty brown paper bags.
Items that should be excluded are:
Cereal and pizza boxes, plastic bags, paper plates and trash.
Jackson Township now offers:
Residential single-stream recycling. This process allows residents to mix recyclable paper, plastic and glass in one bin. Residential single-stream programs have greatly increased the recycling rates, recovering as much as three times the amount of recyclable materials.
Single-stream recycling is made possible through the use of various mechanized screens and optical sorting technologies.
Although it is recommended but not mandatory to use 2 containers, 1 for all paper and cardboard and 1 for commingled bottles cans and plastic, therefore cutting down on unacceptable items being put in container such as household trash.
For further information, please call the Public Works Department at 732-928-1200, ext. 267
RECYCLING
WILL NOT BE COLLECTED ON THE FOLLOWING HOLIDAYS:
New Years Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday
Good Friday
Memorial Day
Independence Day (July 4th)
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Election Day
Veteran's Day
Thanksgiving Day
Day after Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
If your recycling pickup falls on one of these holidays it will be picked up the following week.
Missed recycling can be reported to Central Jersey Waste and Recycling at 1-888-870-8566
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