NEWS OF THE MONTH FROM THE TARRYTOWN ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
AUGUST 2019 Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of Summer... But remember to keep hydrated!
What We're Talking About Doing food scraps right, congestion pricing, sunsets, pollinators, green energy storage... READ ON!
RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING
Tarrytown Does Food Scraps RIGHT! (Right?)
Villagers have been collecting food scraps for composting for well over a year now, starting with a few collection kits sold by the Greenburgh Nature Center in the first quarter of 2018. We're up to about 300 "official" households now, split about 3-to-1 between Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow. And since Tarrytown established the drop-off location next to the Senior Center last November, we've had to expand to ten 65-gallon toters to handle the load between Tuesday pick-ups. We're collecting nearly 3/4 ton of scraps each week, and that's good!
What's NOT so good is when the carting company comes to collect our toters and finds a plastic bag or some non-compostable cup or bowl mixed in with the "good" stuff. They don't pull it out, they put a sticker that says "OOPS!" and that
