Hackensack, NJ trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Monday, Thursday.

Recycling: Monday.

Bulk / large items: Wednesday.

Monday, Thursday is what one Hackensack address returned on October 26, 2026.

Anything put at the curb for collection should go out after 6:00 P.M. the night before your scheduled collection day.

Place the cart by the curb and not in the street, where it would interfere with the street sweeping program.

On rubbish collection you are limited by ordinance to two furniture items or two bags of debris.

Commingled glass, tin, aluminum and plastic go loose in any open container, preferably a 35 gallon plastic garbage can with a lid, with no plastic or paper bags.

Read from the official Hackensack guidance on August 23, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.

Pickup days in Hackensack depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.

The example days above are read from City of Hackensack Department of Public Works and were last checked on October 26, 2026.

Hackensack publishes a per-address collection calendar through the Recycle Coach service. There is no single citywide weekday to quote: each address has its own calendar, and the lookup shows the weekday it lists for your property.

We last checked Hackensack on August 17, 2026: 11 of 12 addresses returned an exact collection day. The days they returned were Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. That is what our check saw, not a full list of Hackensack's pickup days.

City of Hackensack Department of Public Works publishes trash, recycling and bulk items days for Hackensack; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with City of Hackensack Department of Public Works, not here.

The nearest guides to Hackensack are Passaic, North Bergen, Clifton and West New York. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.