Cherry Hill Bulk Pickup & Junk Disposal Rules: The 2026 Homeowner's Guide

Before you pay anyone — including us — to haul junk out of a Cherry Hill home, you should know what the township will take from your curb for nothing. Cherry Hill runs one of the more convenient bulk collection programs in Camden County, and for certain items it’s genuinely the best option. It also has firm limits that surprise homeowners at the worst possible time, usually the night before a closing.

Here’s how the program works, what it won’t take, and how to decide between the curb and a hauler. Rules change; confirm details on the township’s trash guidelines pages or with Public Works at (856) 424-4422 before you plan around them.

Bulk items: collected on your regular trash day

Cherry Hill collects furniture and bulk items — mattresses, couches, dressers, cabinets, toilets, wooden bed frames, and similar household pieces — on your normal weekly trash day, no appointment needed. A separate bulk truck runs behind the regular one, often not arriving until around 6 p.m., so don’t panic if the couch is still there at lunchtime. Check your street’s day on the township collection schedule.

The placement rules matter:

• Put items out after 5:30 p.m. the evening before or before 7:00 a.m. on collection day.
• Place them within four feet of the roadway without blocking the sidewalk, and keep them at least four feet clear of your trash cart — the automated arm that grabs the cart needs the room.
• If a bulk pickup is missed, call the DPW at (856) 424-4422 the following morning.

Carpet has its own rule: cut it into four-foot lengths, roll it, and tie it into bundles under 50 pounds each — the township’s current guidelines page keeps the specs. A whole-house carpet tear-out generates far more bundles than most people expect — plan on a utility knife and an afternoon.

Appliances and white goods: Wednesdays, by appointment

Refrigerators, freezers, stoves, washers, dryers, and grills are handled separately from regular bulk. Cherry Hill collects white goods on Wednesdays, by appointment only — you must call Public Works at (856) 424-4422 by Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. to get on that week’s list.

Practical notes: the appliance needs to be disconnected and at the curb, and doors must be removed from refrigerators, freezers, stoves, and dishwashers — that’s state law, meant to keep children from getting trapped. You’re responsible for getting the unit out of the house; the crew collects from the curb, they don’t come inside.

Electronics: banned from the curb entirely

This is the rule that catches the most people. Under New Jersey’s Electronic Waste Management Act, TVs, computers, monitors, and related electronics cannot go out with the trash — statewide, since 2011. Cherry Hill’s haulers will leave them at your curb.

Instead, e-waste must be recycled — and the township makes it easy: Cherry Hill residents can drop electronics at the Department of Public Works, 1 Perina Blvd., Monday–Friday 7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. and Saturday 7–11 a.m. Retail take-back programs and donation outlets for working computers round out the options, and the state maintains a current list of e-waste drop-offs.

What the township will NOT collect

• Construction and remodeling debris. Material generated by a contractor must be removed by that contractor and taken to an approved disposal site — it is excluded from residential curbside collection. Small DIY amounts are the exception: tied bundles under 50 pounds and no longer than four feet can go out, and palm-sized pieces of concrete can ride in the green tote. Anything beyond that hits the contractor rule.
• Electronics, as above.
• Hazardous waste — paint, chemicals, oils, propane tanks, asbestos. These go to Camden County household hazardous waste collection events for county residents with proof of residency — remaining 2026 dates are September 19 at the Pennsauken Sanitary Landfill (9600 N. River Rd.) and October 17 at the Lindenwold Complex (2311 Egg Harbor Rd.); call (856) 858-5241 for details.
• Anything a private contractor was paid to replace. If a company installed your new water heater or carpet, hauling the old one is part of their job.

Curb vs. hauler: an honest decision guide

Use the township program when: you have one or two bulk items, you can physically get them to the curb, your regular trash day (or the Wednesday appliance run) fits your timeline, and the items are things the program accepts. It’s included in your taxes — use it.

A hauler earns its fee when:

• The item can’t get itself to the curb. The township collects from the curb; nobody from the DPW is walking a sleeper sofa up your basement stairs. If you don’t have the backs for it, that’s the service you’re buying.
• Volume is the problem. A whole-house cleanout, an estate, a garage that took twenty years to fill — putting that at the curb piecemeal would take months and probably violate quantity limits anyway.
• It’s excluded. Renovation debris, e-waste runs, and mixed loads with a bit of everything.
• The clock is running. Closings, move-outs, and estate deadlines don’t wait for next week’s trash day. Same-day and next-day hauling exists for exactly this.
• You want the sorting done right. A good hauler donates usable items and recycles metal and electronics rather than landfilling everything — often more diversion than a curbside compactor load will ever achieve.

One caution when hiring: in New Jersey, hauling someone else’s waste for pay isn’t a handshake business — it requires an A-901 license from the NJDEP and registration as a solid waste transporter, and compliant trucks display NJDEP decals to prove it. Two quick checks before the truck is loaded: glance at the truck for the decal, and ask the company outright for its A-901 number — a legitimate outfit answers without hesitation. (The state doesn’t publish a single searchable list of licensees; NJDEP’s A-901 unit at 609-984-6985 handles verification questions.) Illegally dumped junk gets traced back to the household it came from, so this two-minute check is worth it.

Quick reference

Item	Township option	Notes
Sofa, mattress, dresser	Regular trash day, no appointment	Within 4 ft of roadway; 4 ft clear of trash cart
Fridge, washer, stove	Wednesdays by appointment	Call DPW by Tue 3 p.m.; doors off; curbside only
Carpet	Regular trash day	4-ft lengths, rolled and tied, under 50 lbs each
TVs, computers	Never curbside	Drop off at DPW, 1 Perina Blvd.
Remodel debris	Not collected (small DIY bundles OK)	Contractor or private hauler to approved site
Paint, chemicals	Not collected	Camden County HHW events (Sep 19, Oct 17, 2026)

For anything the curb can’t solve — or anything you’d simply rather not lift — we’re local, we’re registered and insured, and estimates are free. Request yours and the pile is handled.

Program details summarized from Cherry Hill Township public works guidance as of July 2026. Always confirm current rules at chnj.gov or (856) 424-4422.