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Interstate Waste Services, Inc.
Newark, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 6/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/4/2026
Schedule: 2:00 AM - 10:30 AM or 10:30- 7pm

Interstate Waste Services is the most progressive and innovative provider of solid waste and recycling services in the country! We primarily service Northern New Jersey, Southern New York State, New York City, with a landfill located in Ohio, where we also own and operate a state-of-the-art rail-served landfill. We cater to a diverse range of residential, industrial, and commercial customers. Our mission has always been to provide our customers with the highest quality waste, recycling, and environmental services, while keeping focus on employee, customer, and environmental safety.

What makes our company culture unique is we have mastered the ability to balance the standards of a large corporate company while maintaining our small business family style culture.

Essential Job Summary

The Line Sorter's main responsibility is to sort and pick through refuse at our MRF / Optical Sorting Facility (Materials Recovery Facility). They play an integral role in the elimination of wrongly recycled products into the environment’s waste and recycling stream. They will learn the appropriate products to identify throughout the optical sorting machinery.

Essential Job Functions: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.

  • Must be able to stand for four hours at a time (based on shift and break rotations)
  • Must be able to work in hot and cold weather (work area is not heated or cooled—it reflects the outdoor temperature at the time)
  • Sort through recyclables on a moving conveyor belt
  • Sweeping is required at cleanup time
  • Light shoveling
  • Occasional lifting (less than 50lbs)
  • Familiarity with the use of hand tools like pliers for the cleaning of baled product

Requirements And Qualifications

  • Applicants must meet physical standards as specified above
  • Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and legally eligible to work in the United States
  • Experience from the sanitation industry is strongly preferred
  • Position requires a team-player attitude as job is spent in close quarters with other staff members that all rely on one another
  • Sorters will spend their shift standing on their feet alongside the conveyer belts

They will be exposed to odors, hot or cold weather, as well as physically touching items in the recycling stream

Additional Information

This job description is intended to be an accurate representation of the general functions of the job, rather than exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or experience. Other duties may be assigned, requested, or required. Aspects of the job may be altered without notice.

Interstate Waste Services provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Salary Range Minimum

USD $15.50/Hr.

Salary Range Maximum

USD $16.00/Hr.

Salary : $16 - $16

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