Briarcliff, Pleasantville Among Top Westchester Recycling Communities

Briarcliff Manor and Pleasantville are among a group of nine municipalities in Westchester County that recycle at least 70 percent of their waste, County Executive Rob Astorino's office announced this week.

Briarcliff Manor recycled 71 percent of its waste in 2012, while Pleasantville hit the 70 percent mark, the county said in a statement.

The overall county rate came in at 52 percent last year.

The rates include recycling of several types of materials, the announcement notes.

"These recycling rates include a wide variety of materials the municipalities collected and diverted for reuse purposes beyond cans, bottles and paper collected curbside, such as large wood debris following Hurricane Sandy, roadway millings, large bulk metals and construction debris."

Westchester is also seeing a lower garbage amount, with the residential trash volume within the county's refuse district—about 90 percent of Westchester residents live in it—went down for the fifth year in a row. The tons of garbage recorded for 2012 were at 376,890, versus a record of 540,217 for 2007, which means a decrease over the period of 30.2 percent.

Below is the data for each municipality's recycling rate:

Ardsley, 48 percent

Bedford, 29 percent

Briarcliff Manor, 71 percent

Bronxville, 71 percent

Buchanan, 28 percent

Cortlandt, 32 percent

Croton-on-Hudson, 49 percent

Dobbs Ferry, 52 percent

Eastchester, 53 percent

Elmsford, 56 percent

Greenburgh, 63 percent

Harrison, 61 percent

Hastings-on-Hudson, 35 percent

Irvington, 58 percent

Larchmont/Mamaroneck, 63 percent

Lewisboro, 20 percent

Mamaroneck (village), 55 percent

Mount Kisco, 50 percent

Mount Pleasant, 67 percent

Mount Vernon, 26 percent

New Castle, 62 percent

New Rochelle, 44 percent

North Castle, 49 percent

North Salem, 38 percent

Ossining (town), 45 percent

Ossining (village), 60 percent

Peekskill, 28 percent

Pelham, 55 percent

Pelham Manor, 74 percent

Pleasantville, 70 percent

Port Chester, 67 percent

Pound Ridge, 5 percent

Rye Brook, 71 percent

Rye (city), 70 percent

Scarsdale, 76 percent

Sleepy Hollow, 70 percent

Somers, 26 percent

Tarrytown, 43 percent

Tuckahoe, 57 percent

White Plains, 73 percent

Yonkers, 43 percent

Yorktown, 65 percent