Residential Services

Services offered to residents vary from community to community and from hauler to hauler. Nearly all provide the following services to all or a portion of their service area. Call your municipality to determine collection schedules for regular trash and special items. Check the yellow pages under "Rubbish & Garbage Removal" if you require the services of a private hauler.

Regular Refuse Collection & Volume Based Collection

Most haulers collect trash weekly at the curb for single-family homes, but some offer additional services (at an additional cost). Some haulers offer special wheeled trash containers for rent to simplify billing and collection. Some communities and haulers are experimenting with volume-based trash service, where the resident pays a per-bag fee for trash set out at the curb. The hauler and the municipality make special stickers or bags available for sale at municipal offices or by mail. This type of service is different than traditional garbage service for which the resident pays a flat garbage bill for whatever is placed out for collection. Volume-based billing systems encourage waste reduction and recycling by the resident because the less trash that is thrown out, the less the resident pays for collection. Implementing these systems requirescareful planning, public education and enforcement.

Landscape Waste Collection

Leaves have been banned from the Monmouth County Landfill since October 1987,and are taken to public or private composting sites or applied to agricultural lands as mulch. Grass has been banned from the Landfill since May 1993, and is managed at home, through grasscycling, mulching or composting, or taken to private composting facilities. Other yard waste, such as plant remains and brush account for up to 8% of all waste landfilled in Monmouth County. Many of these materials could be managed through home composting. Municipalities have various collection strategies for some of these materials, and you should contact your municipal recycling coordinator for further details. Some private companies also are collecting source separated yard waste for recycling into compost.

Multi-Family Services

Many haulers design and manage special trash collection programs for apartment buildings and condominiums to fit the special needs of this housing. Check with your building or site manager, hauler, or municipality for more information.

Special Dumpster Service

Nearly all haulers can provide various sized dumpsters for large amounts of refuse from home repair and other projects. Haulers may be able to provide for recycling of scrap materials in addition to, or instead of, disposing of them. Check with your municipality about the placement and use of containers.

Commercial Collection Services

Haulers provide a wide variety of specialized services to commercial establishments, helping businesses deal with all types of waste generated commercial activities. They provided recycling services for large bulky material like corrugated cardboard long before more visible residential recycling programs were implemented. Haulers design, implement and manage systems to effectively deal with commercially-generated waste. Working with a hauler, the customer can determine size and shape of container and frequency of collection which will best suit his or her needs and assist in complying with mandatory recycling laws. Give your hauler a call before implementing or upgrading your business's recycling efforts you might be surprised at the variety of services available.

Other Services

It is not unusual for haulers to provide other services and specialized programs. Call your hauler for further information.