Conservation Center:
210 Birchwood Avenue
Conservation Center Hours:
Wed: 9:30am-3:20pm
Sat. & Sun.: 9:30am-3:50pm
Recycling
Township Recycling
No permit required for: motor oil & motor oil filters, glass bottles & jars, aluminum cans, steel/tin cans, plastics (type 1 – 7), newspapers, mixed paper (junk mail/magazines), hardcover & paperback books, corrugated cardboard.
Single use batteries are no longer accepted at the recycling center.
ELECTRONICS
The Following Electronics Are Now Accepted At The Conservation Center:
COMPUTERS, MONITORS, TV’s, LAPTOPS AND TABLETS
Permit required for: grass, brush, yard waste. Proof of residency & permit required for drop off.
Effective January 1, 2011 all TVs and Computers and Computer Monitors must be recycled.
Nature
The Conservation Center
- Curbside: Newspapers & magazines must be bundled with twine and put at the curb. Corrugated cardboard must be flattened and bundled with twine. Mixed paper and junk mail must be tied or put in paper bag at the curb.
- Co-mingled: Paper milk and juice cartons, empty aerosol cans, plastic bottles and jars type 1 & 2, aluminum cans, foil, pie plates, glass bottles and jars, steel tin cans. Township of Cranford pickups are made rain or shine. Place your recyclables at the curbside by 7am on the scheduled day or the night before pickup.
- Conservation Center: Separated type 1 & 2 and 3 to 7 plastics are accepted.
- Use the container with this sign for 3 to 7 plastics only.
Catalogs
Catalogs & Junk Mail
Millions of trees are lost each year producing over 20 billion catalogs.
Wildlife is displaced by the loss of sensitive habitat.
As trees grow, they help stop global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the air, storing carbon in the trees and the soil, and releasing oxygen into the atmosphere.
Help
You can help by:
Eliminate those unwanted catalogs with the freeCatalog Choiceor DMAchoice services.
Recycle all catalogs at the recycling center or at our curb side pick up.
Learn more about how trees help the environment by visiting the Arbor Day Foundation web site.
Water
Plastic Water Bottles
Roughly 38 billion plastic water bottles end up in U.S. landfills each year – 100 million every day.
We are paying 2 to 4 times the cost of gasoline for a product that is practically free.
It takes 3 bottles of water to make & distribute 1 disposable plastic bottle.
17 million barrels of crude oil are used to make all the plastic bottles consumed by Americans each year. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.
Solution
The Solution
Tap water can be 1000 times cheaper than bottled water.
Drink tap water from a S’well or other BPA free reusable bottle.
If you need to use water in a plastic bottle, please recycle.
Recycle Compact Florescent Light Bulbs at Home Depot
Fluorescent Bulbs are accepted for recycling at all of Union County’s Household Hazardous Waste days. In an effort to make recycling easier and more convenient, Union County is now offering fluorescent bulb recycling at municipal conservation centers including Cranford. 4’ and 8’ fluorescent bulbs are now being accepted for recycling, free of charge.
Additional items can be recycled through Union County’s recycling programs. For more information visit: http://ucnj.org/recycling/
Resources
Living Green
Food and Water Watch
A non-profit organization working with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future.
Green Guide for Kids
Online environmental resource for kids to find ideas, information, and inspiration to go green.
Earth911
Making Every Day Earth Day Guide to local resources including recycling centers, how to recycle, pollution prevention and how help protect the environment.
Recycle Nation
A new place to find out where to recycle just about anything.