Lamp recycling information for New Jersey.
This page covers lamp recycling rules for New Jersey, not confirmed service availability. Send your ZIP and counts; any pickup or mail-back option will be confirmed in a written quote.
- Fluorescent, CFL and HID
- Ballasts and batteries
- Availability checked by ZIP
- A record for every job
How New Jersey treats spent lamps.
Each row comes from a New Jersey agency, statute or EPA page we read. Where a row is missing, we could not verify it, and the federal baseline applies until the state says more.
| Topic | What applies | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Business lamps | Businesses must keep spent mercury lamps unbroken in protective containers and send them to a recycler; trash compactor disposal has drawn penalties. | NJDEP, Compliance Advisory #2009-04 (April 2009) |
| Household lamps | Homeowners are not subject to hazardous or universal waste rules, but NJDEP says they should take spent bulbs to a household hazardous waste collection facility. | NJDEP, Compliance Advisory #2009-04 (April 2009) |
| Crushing lamps | Generators who crush their own lamps need an air permit with mercury controls, and the crushed lamps lose universal waste status and become fully regulated hazardous waste. | NJDEP, Compliance Advisory #2005-13 (October 2005, updated July 2006) |
| Universal waste | EPA's state table lists lamps in New Jersey's universal waste program, citing N.J.A.C. 7:26 Subchapter 1. | EPA, Universal Waste Programs in the United States |
| Federal baseline | Under federal rules, business lamps can be managed as universal waste under 40 CFR Part 273. That means closed containers that prevent breakage, a label, and no more than one year in storage. | 40 CFR Part 273 |
| Regulator | New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). | NJDEP, Compliance Advisory #2009-04 (April 2009) |
Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Read from the sources named, October 3, 2026. Rows appear only where a source was verified. Federal rules shown where noted. States can be stricter. Not legal advice.
New Jersey city pages.
Each city page carries the New Jersey rules above, nearby cities and any local programs we verified. Send your ZIP code with the form for a written quote.
A to H
- Asbury Park
- Atlantic City
- Avenel
- Basking Ridge
- Bayonne
- Bayville
- Belleville
- Bergenfield
- Bloomfield
- Brick
- Bridgeton
- Bridgewater
- Camden
- Carteret
- Cherry Hill
- Cliffside Park
- Clifton
- Colonia
- Cranford
- Denville
- Dover
- Dumont
- East Brunswick
- East Orange
- Edison
- Elizabeth
- Elmwood Park
- Englewood
- Ewing
- Fair Lawn
- Fords
- Fort Lee
- Garfield
- Glassboro
- Hackensack
- Harrison
- Hawthorne
- Hillsborough
- Hillside
- Hoboken
- Hopatcong
- Hopatcong Hills
I to P
- Irvington
- Iselin
- Jackson
- Jersey City
- Kearny
- Lakewood
- Linden
- Lindenwold
- Livingston
- Lodi
- Long Branch
- Lyndhurst
- Madison
- Mahwah
- Maple Shade
- Maplewood
- Marlboro
- Middletown
- Millburn
- Millville
- Montclair
- Morristown
- Mount Laurel
- New Brunswick
- New Milford
- Newark
- North Arlington
- North Bergen
- North Brunswick
- North Plainfield
- Nutley
- Ocean Acres
- Old Bridge
- Orange
- Palisades Park
- Paramus
- Parsippany
- Passaic
- Paterson
- Pennsauken
- Perth Amboy
- Piscataway
P to W
- Plainfield
- Pleasantville
- Point Pleasant
- Princeton
- Rahway
- Ramsey
- Randolph
- Ridgewood
- Roselle
- Rutherford
- Sayreville
- Sayreville Junction
- Scotch Plains
- Secaucus
- Sewell
- Sicklerville
- Somerset
- South Old Bridge
- South Orange
- South Plainfield
- South River
- South Vineland
- Sparta
- Summit
- Teaneck
- Tinton Falls
- Toms River
- Trenton
- Union
- Union City
- Vineland
- Warren Township
- Wayne
- West Milford
- West New York
- West Orange
- Westfield
- Williamstown
- Willingboro
- Woodbridge
- Wyckoff
EPA's universal waste page lists fluorescent, HID, neon, mercury vapor, high pressure sodium and metal halide lamps. A fluorescent lamp holds 3.5 to 15 milligrams of mercury, per EPA. Universal waste can be stored for a year and ships without a hazardous waste manifest.
What New Jersey facilities teams ask.
Can a business in New Jersey put fluorescent tubes in the trash?
Businesses must keep spent mercury lamps unbroken in protective containers and send them to a recycler; trash compactor disposal has drawn penalties. Send counts from your New Jersey site and we reply with a written quote.
Can lamps be crushed in New Jersey?
Generators who crush their own lamps need an air permit with mercury controls, and the crushed lamps lose universal waste status and become fully regulated hazardous waste. Whole lamps are the simpler path: they ship as universal waste and keep their mercury inside until the recycler captures it.
How much does lamp recycling cost in New Jersey?
We reply with a written quote based on your counts and ZIP code. Public contracts price lamps by the foot, by the lamp or by the pound, often with a minimum charge per pickup. Our pricing page explains each unit.
Can you collect from a New Jersey site?
Send your ZIP code and rough counts with the form. We check whether pickup or mail-back is available there before quoting. A city page is not a service guarantee. Every completed job ends with a recycling record.
Federal rules shown where noted. States can be stricter. Not legal advice.
Related pages.
Lamps waiting at a New Jersey site?
Send rough counts and your ZIP. The written quote will confirm whether pickup or mail-back is available for that location.