Neighborhood Food Hubs

Friendship Donations Network's Neighborhood Food Hubs make it easy to donate extra garden and CSA produce. Donations are distributed to community food pantries, reducing hunger and waste.

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Food Scrap Recycling Drop Spots

Drop off your food scraps for free at any one of twelve locations including the new Hancock Street Drop Spot (opening August 9th), Cass Park Ice Rink, Tompkins County Highway Department on Bostwick Rd, and Trumansburg Village Public Works.

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Household Hazardous Waste

Sign-up for the next Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) drop-off event!

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Recycling and Solid Waste Center

Residents can bring trash and single stream recyclables to the public drop off , as well as yard waste, scrap metal and additional materials such as electronics and appliances, large rigid plastics, propane tanks and plastic bags.

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Curbside Recycling

Get the Guidelines for every other week curbside recycling collection provided to residents of Tompkins County.

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Permits and Fees

Residents and businesses must purchase permits to dispose of garbage and certain recyclables at the Recycling and Solid Waste Center.

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New Video Highlights Use of Recycling and Solid Waste Center

Thomas Hoebbel Photography and Video has produced a new video that demonstrates the many ways the Recycling and Solid Waste Center can be used to dispose of trash and drop off recyclable materials. View the short tutorial on Recycle Tompkin's YouTube channel along with other "How to.." videos related to curbside recycling collection, food scraps recycling drop spots and food waste prevention.

New Curbside Recycling Guidelines and Schedule

The 2017-18 Tompkins County Curbside Recycling Guidelines

brochure, including the schedule for bi-weekly collection, can

be downloaded here.

Printed copies have been distributed to all municipal offices as well as many other locations, including Wegmans, Tops, P & C Fresh, Trumansburg Shur-Save and Dryden Food Market. They are also available at the Recycling and Materials Management office and the public drop-off of the Recycling and Solid Waste Center.

Dish Truck: You Can Be a Part of the Solution

Read the latest news about the Dish Truck project, which aims to replace disposable plates, cups, and utensils with reusable, durable serviceware that is washed on-site. The project offers volunteering opportunities for those who are interested.

Read the recent article in Tompkins Weekly here.

Friendship Donations Network Fights Food Waste

The local Friendship Donations Network (FDN) rescues fresh, nutritious food that would otherwise be thrown away from stores and farms and redistributes it to those in need. It provides food donations to hunger relief programs that serve more than 2,000 people a week, and diverts over 1,000 pounds of good food from being wasted every day.

Learn more here.

Become a Tompkins County ReBusiness Partner

Join the hundreds of local businesses and organizations who are saving money, conserving energy and diverting resources from the landfill. Make a commitment to the 4Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rebuy - and call our team today for your free Waste Assessment

Check out this short video promoting the ReBusiness Partners program. It demonstrates how easy it is to participate in a waste assessment or reassessment and highlights some of the successes of existing partners.

Online Reuse Directory Highlights Secondhand Shopping

Check out Get Your Greenback Tompkins' Reuse Store directory!

Secondhand shopping provides quality goods at reasonable prices, with most of your money staying in the local economy.

SAVE THE DATE

Next "Compost with Confidence" Class is Aug. 26th

NEWS & NOTES

New Hancock Street Drop Spot Now Open

Hancock Street Food Scraps Drop Spot Now Open

A new Food Scraps Recycling Drop Spot is now open every Wednesday from 4pm to 6pm in the parking lot of the Ithaca Coffee Company's roasting facility at the corner of Fifth and Hancock Streets on Ithaca's Northside.

Read the news release here.

The Summer 4R Times Newsletter is Now Available

Be sure to read the latest issue of the 4R Times newsletter. Get all the latest news from the Department of Recycling and Materials Management here.

Tompkins County is a Certified Climate Smart Community

In a ceremony at the Recycling and Solid Waste Center, representatives from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation recognized Tompkins County and the Town of Ithaca as the 12th and 14th certified Climate Smart Communities in New York State, highlighting plans for a centralized food scraps transfer station and the County's use of hybrid electric vehicles.