Greenburgh Residents Needed For Food Scrap Recycling Committee

GREENBURGH, NY — Greenburgh residents are invited to join the new Food Scrap Recycling Committee. Coordinate outreach workshops in your neighborhood, represent the new program at community events, and collaborate with municipal officials so the program serves residents best. Meetings will be once monthly on a weekday evening, the first of which will be held at Anthony Veteran Park, details TBA.

To get involved in the Food Scrap Recycling Committee, for program updates, or for more information, please contact Rachel Carpitella at 914-813-1251 or by email, copying pfeiner@greenburghny.com.

Background Information on the Food Scrap Recycling Program:

Consumers and the general public are increasingly conscious about how their food is grown and where it ends up. Approximately 40% of all food produced in the United States ends up in the waste bin or thrown away.

The Town of Greenburgh and Greenburgh Nature Center will establish a municipal food scrap recycling program this year. It will reclaim the value of food waste through composting while reducing the economic and environmental costs associated with treating food scraps as garbage.

At the Town food scrap recycling drop-off site you'll be able to compost much more than you can in your backyard. Town residents will be able to drop-off all kitchen waste including; meat, bones, shells, and dairy as well as fruit and vegetable scraps, napkins and paper towels.

Here’s how it will work: residents of Greenburgh will empty their individual organics bin into the town's commercial toters at Anthony F. Veteran Park. From there, the food scraps will be carted to a commercial compost facility where they will be processed into nutrient rich, carbon sequestering soil. That compost will nourish plants in gardens, parks, and farms.

We are excited to offer food scrap recycling to residents of the town through this voluntary drop-off program. The official launch date and further details of the workshops will be announced this fall.

Upcoming information sessions; Sept. 19th, 6:30pm-9pm @ Theodore Young Community Center and Oct. 7th, time TBA, Hartsdale Day Celebration.

For program updates, more information, or to get involved please contact Rachel Carpitella at 914-813-1251 or rcarpitella@greenburghnaturecenter.org. Like us on Facebook.

The village of Scarsdale started this initiative early this year and was recognized by the county for leading the way. Some school districts within the town have been involved in programs promoting food scrap recycling. Hastings and the Edgemont schools have active programs. So does the Springhurst schools within Dobbs Ferry.

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