Recycling

PLEASE NOTE: Waste Industries, LLC handles Livingston's Recycling collections. To speak with customer service, please call 908-436-1966.

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Residential Recycling - Weekly Pickups

View a Printable Regular Recycling Schedule (PDF) here for the list of pickup dates by zone, including holiday notations.

Paper & Commingled Recycling 

Livingston’s recycling collector is Waste Industries, LLC.

  • Waste Industries picks up Paper and Commingled recycling on alternating weeks.
  • Please Note: Containers can be no larger than 32 gallons or weigh more than 50 lbs when filled. 

Know Your Section & Your Recycling Days

View the Sections and Zones by street to find your recycling and garbage days of the week.

View Recycling Collection Zones Map (PDF) (color coded for days of the week).

Waste Industries’ trucks may arrive as early as 6:00 a.m. to pick up recycling. If recycling is not out at the curb by the time trucks arrive, it will not be collected. 

Questions?  Call Waste Industries:  908-436-1966

or email:  info@waste-industries.com

Earth Image with Recycling triangle and blooming leaves

What Can I Recycle?

Paper and Commingled must be put out separately, and pickup weeks alternate throughout the year.

Note: TVs, Computers and other Electronics can not be put at the curb with regular recycling or with regular or bulk garbage. 

They must be recycled at one of the periodic Electronics Recycling Events.

Plastic bags of any color are no longer accepted with commingled curbside recycling due to changes in the recycling industry.

Residents may put Recycling at the curb on the afternoon before the scheduled pickup:

  • after 4:00 p.m. during Eastern Standard Time (November - March)
  • after 6:00 p.m. during Eastern Daylight Savings Time  (March - November)  

Streets are broken into 5 Recycling Zones:

  • Zone 1 - Monday
  • Zone 2 - Tuesday
  • Zone 3 - Wednesday
  • Zone 4 - Thursday
  • Zone 5 - Friday

View the Recycling Calendar here.

Holiday Pickups

When a holiday falls on your recycling day or earlier in the same week, your recycling will be picked up on the day after your regularly scheduled day. The following are Waste Industries' only scheduled holiday closings:

  • New Year's Day
  • Memorial Day
  • July 4th 
  • Labor Day
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Christmas Day

Related Documents

  1. Green Guide to Livingston (PDF)
  2. Juice Boxes Can Be Recycled (PDF)
  3. Leaf Mulching (PDF)
  4. Livingston Recycling Ordinance (PDF)
  5. Recycling Guide for Residents (PDF)
  6. What Do I Do With This (PDF)