In Fall 2020, Westchester County's Department of Environmental Facilities (DEF) established the Residential Food Scrap Transportation and Disposal (RFSTAD) Program. DEF saw the need to establish a program that would ease the financial burden for local municipalities to connect with local food scrap programs, and recognized that the transportation to and disposal of food scraps constituted the largest barrier to these programs in many communities.
DEF established RFSTAD to assist municipalities seeking to start or maintain food scrap programs. Under RFSTAD, District municipalities pay a subsidized rate for the transportation and disposal of food scraps collected by the municipality either through drop-off or curbside collections. This subsidized rate makes the processing of food scraps cost neutral or provides a cost savings when compared with municipal costs to process municipal solid waste. RFSTAD also allows for the bulking of food scraps with a goal of reducing greenhouse gasses created during the transportation of the food scraps to an organics recycler.
Contact your local municipality for more information about recycling food scraps.
Participating Municipalities (current through 2022)
- Bronxville
- Croton-on-Hudson
- Dobbs Ferry
- Eastchester
- Elmsford
- Harrison
- Hastings
- Irvington
- Larchmont (Village) & Town of Mamaroneck
- Mamaroneck (Village)
- Mount Kisco
- Ossining (Town)
- Peekskill
- Pelham
- Pleasantville
- Port Chester
- Rye City
- Rye Brook
- Scarsdale
- Sleepy Hollow
- Tarrytown
- Tuckahoe
- White Plains
- Yonkers
- Yorktown