Weekly Trash & Monthly Recycling Collection Schedule

To identify your collection and recycling pickup schedule:

1. Locate your street under Routes A, B, C, or D. If your street is not listed, call the Municipal Building at 973-347-2500 x 125.
2. Once you have identified your route, review the collection schedules. Identify your trash & recycling dates.
3. Mark your calendar.

2008 Trash Collection & Recycling Routes

2008 Collection Schedule Holidays & Inclement Weather Policy
Blue Diamond observes the following 6 holidays:  New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day,  Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.  If your pickup day for either Trash or Recycling falls on a holiday listed above (or during heavy snow), your pickup will be the following day.

Route A

Route B

Route C

Route D

2008 TRASH / RECYCLING INFORMATION

1.         Trash Collection occurs once a week as scheduled.  Trash should go out the night before pickup day (pickup can be as early as 6AM). 

            Please be aware that your garbage will NOT be collected if there is recycling included.  A sticker will be placed on your garbage stating the reason it was
            not collected.  Recycling has been mandatory since 1987 and the State has become more stringent with municipalities that are not in compliance.

2.         Recycling is picked up once a month.  Co-mingled food and beverage glass jars and bottles, plastic (soda, water, juice, milk and detergent ONLY),tin and
            aluminum cans must be clean with lids removed and placed for pickup in a reusable container.

            Paper goods such as bundled newspaper, bundled magazines, junk mail, office paper, shredded paper and flattened cardboard, pizza boxes, frozen food
            containers, tissue boxes, cereal boxes, etc. can be put out in brown paper grocery bags or trash cans and will be collected by a separate truck.

            Recyclables in plastic bags will not be picked up.  Plastic bags, plastic hangers, plastic toys, plastic lids, flowerpots, pie trays, egg cartons and Styrofoam
            are considered regular garbage and will not be collected with your recycling. If any of these items are mixed in with your plastic, glass and tin/aluminum
            cans, your recycling barrel will be stickered with a violation notice and not picked up.

3.         Bulky Waste – you are allowed LIMITED BULK pickup each week. Bulky items are limited to household items such as sofas, chairs, dressers, mattresses,
            desks, carpeting (rolled & tied in bundles of no more than 4 feet), plastic toys etc.  If you are planning a major cleanup you must arrange for rental of a
            roll-off container.  Metal items and auto tires are NOT collected roadside and can be brought to the recycling center.

4.         Construction Debris and Hazardous Waste – absolutely no construction debris (concrete, wood scrap, sheetrock, tiles, etc.) will not be collected or
            permitted at the recycling center.  Construction debris and hazardous waste (including paint cans) must go to the Sussex County Municipal Utilities
            Authority (county landfill) on Rt. 94 in Lafayette (973-579-6998).

5.         Loose Leaves and small brush (no more than 4” diameter) may be brought to the township recycling center mid-April to mid-October, weather
            permitting.  The town offers 2 roadside pickups for leaves bagged in biodegradable paper bags, usually in December. 

6.         Christmas tree pickup begins the second full week in January, weather permitting.  Remove all tinsel and decorations and place tree at roadside.

7.         Recycling Center – located at 10 Mansfield Drive in Byram, is open on Wednesdays from 7:30AM – 2:00PM and on Saturdays 7:30AM – 4:00PM.  All
            recyclable items are accepted: metal, auto tires without rims, major appliances (remove refrigerator doors).  No construction debris or household trash is
            accepted.  Any bulk item that can be picked up at roadside cannot be accepted at the recycling center due to space constraints.

 8.         Questions – call Blue Diamond Disposal at 973-598-9800 or Byram Recycling at 973-347-2500 x. 125.