State of New Jersey, County of
Somerset
The Somerset County Recycling program for ewaste offers the services
listed below.
Recycling all electronics is urgent
and critical
PLEASE do it. For your children's
sake. For your own health.
Residences or businesses:
Electronics,
computers, batteries, and related items (i.e. ewaste) are not
accepted
at curbside recycling pickups at all in Somerset County.
However for residences, Somerset County now will
recycle electronic waste if
you bring it to "Drop off Days"
at its main recycling center.
Business recycling info is here.
In Somerset County you have three
options.
- Drop-off
Days in Bridgewater
- Occasional special drop off
days
in other places.
- Contact an independant recycling
center.
:
Residents: Somerset County accepts ewaste from
on (usually) the first Saturday of each month at the
Somerset County Recycling
Center
40 Polhemus Lane
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
8 am to 2 pm
Full information is on-line here.
Drop
off dates for 2010:
| January 9 |
May 1 |
September 11 |
| February 6 |
June 5 |
October 2 |
| March 6 |
July 10 |
November 6 |
| April 10 |
August 7 |
December 4 |
Additional
drop off dates were scheduled for April:
Businesses
(including small businesses of 1 to 50 employees) are NOT allowed to
drop off electronic waste, and are expected to make other provisions,
which is usually to pay a commercial recycler. See here.
when you can drop off your
ewaste at no cost under a county program.
The most recent special drop off days are were:
Thursday,
April 22, and Friday April 23,
3 pm to 6 pm.
Saturday, April 24, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
At:
Newtech Recycling, Inc.
600A Apgar Drive,
Somerset, NJ 08873
The announcement:
Somerset
County
and Newtech Recycling Inc. are offering a free “Save the Earth
Recycling Event” of old computers and electronic equipment to celebrate
Earth Day. Residents
may
bring equipment to Newtech Recycling Inc. in Somerset.
Sign up for the Somerset county recycling newsletter here
Get more information on Somerset County
Recycling
from the county web site.