Research snapshot · Waste · 31 August 2026

Solid waste operations in New Jersey: 5 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 11 dated municipal records flagged as solid waste operations in New Jersey, spanning 5 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Summit, 8 May 2021. Since then 5 New Jersey towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Camden on 2 July 2026.

The last 90 days put 1 meeting on the record, well down from 6 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: City of Summit News Releases.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202500
Dec 2025 to Feb 202611
Mar 2026 to May 202663
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)11

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Mar 2026 to May 2026, with 6 meetings.

The towns on the record5, earliest first

Every New Jersey town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Summitearliest 2021-05-08 · 1 meeting · latest 2021-05-08 · the document 032921 Summit Free Market returns May 8, 2021
Carteretearliest 2025-02-13 · 4 meetings · latest 2026-03-09 · the document March 26 Carteret Press Online
Palisades Parkearliest 2026-04-07 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-05-28 · the ordinance Ordinance 2026-14, 2026-15 Intro Notice
Hackensackearliest 2026-05-15 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-05-15 · the budget 2026 Budget Presentation
Camdenearliest 2026-07-02 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-07-02 · the document EMR Resolution _ Terms 7-2-26

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

2 July 2026 · Camden

the document, on the town's own site EMR Resolution _ Terms 7-2-26

28 May 2026 · Palisades Park

the ordinance, on the town's own site Ordinance 2026-14, 2026-15 Intro Notice

15 May 2026 · Hackensack

the budget, on the town's own site 2026 Budget Presentation

9 March 2026 · Carteret

the document, on the town's own site March 26 Carteret Press Online

Companies on this record37 companies, 7 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
Carteret Business Partnership Inc.Carteret
Middlesex CollegeCarteret
Old Bridge Recycling CenterCarteret
REPLENISHCarteret
Carteret Performing Arts & Events CenterCarteret
Office of Emergency ManagementCarteret
ShopRite of CarteretCarteret
19th District legislatorsCarteret
AmazonCarteret
Bergen Community CollegePalisades Park
Bergen County Campgaw Mountain ReservationPalisades Park
Blazing Star Cultural Arts CenterCarteret
Borough of Palisades ParkPalisades Park
Brock and Carrington ContractorsCarteret
Camden Iron and Metal, Inc.Camden
Carteret Band Parents AssociationCarteret
Carteret Policeman’s Benevolent Association Local 47Carteret
Central Jersey Marquee AwardsCarteret
Chateau Madrid & RiunitiCarteret
COSMAXCarteret
CPACCarteret
EMR Advanced Recycling, LLCCamden
EMR Eastern, LLCCamden
EMR Recycling, LLCCamden
EquinixCarteret
FedExCarteret
GloboloonCarteret
Max Weinberg’s JukeboxCarteret
Michigan State UniversityCarteret
Middlesex County Solid Waste ManagementCarteret

And 7 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 132 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Also at this scope: Solid waste operations across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Solid waste operations, New Jersey

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

New Jersey

every topic this state carries

Area

Waste

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

5

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

8 May 2021

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

1 against 6 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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