Hastings'
Zero Waste
Advisory Taskforce
A subcommittee of the Hastings-on-Hudson Conservation Commission
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Entering our 5th year!
Entering our 5th year!
TILI - Take It or Leave It - Garage is a free, volunteer-run initiative where you can drop off unwanted household items and/or take anything you like. This effort aims to reduce waste by diverting usable items from trash cans and helping them find new homes.
Click here for location, items we accept, and/or to volunteer.
closed public holidays and in too wet/too hot/too cold weather
NEWS
NEWS
With funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund, Francesca Molakides set up six collection boxes around town to gather as many used sneakers as possible and send them to gotsneakers.com (a sneaker recycling service). Gotsneakers resells gently used sneakers and recycles parts of well worn sneakers, thereby keeping them out of the waste stream. Francesca also produced educational flyers and hosted a promotional event. Her goal is to raise awareness around the toxic effects of sneakers in landfills and incinerators and to encourage people to start recycling rather than discarding their old sneakers. Read more.
Composting for Change, Recycling Waste into Fresh Growth
With funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund, Nate Sollars and Ronan Zweifler constructed two receptacles: one to divert commingled recycling and the other to capture food scraps from Hastings High School's waste stream. They donated the tools they purchased for the project to the school's robotics team, which will enable the team to enhance their robots and strengthen the school's mechanical department. Read more.
The Village of Hastings, in collaboration with Westchester County, now offers free and easy home pickup clothing recycling service.
As a certified B corporation with an environmental mission to extend the useful life of clothing, Helpsy partners with municipalities and organizations across 10 states to collect unwanted clothing.
Click on the pic to schedule your pickup!
Alternatively, you can drop your unwanted textiles anytime in our Textile Bin in the Zinsser Commuter parking lot (aka train station parking lot) near 115 Southside Ave. Both Helpsy and GreenTree are ethical textile recyclers that prioritize the environment.
See our Textile Recycling page for more info.
Located in the Zinsser Parking lot near 115 Southside Ave
Hajeong Lee and Ella Cajigao (with mentor Megan Roe) have used their grant from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund to create a microbusiness that focuses on making gorgeous jewelry out of plastic bottle tops. Bottle tops are notoriously difficult to recycle. Learn more. For a list of all Bloomberg YCAF-funded grants completed 2024, click here.
WHAT IS ZERO WASTE?
WHAT IS ZERO WASTE?
ZW is the conservation of resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging and materials without burning and with no discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health. From Zero Waste Alliance International.
Hastings' ZWAT is a group of concerned Hastings-on-Hudson residents passionate about reducing waste and helping raise awareness in our community. ZWAT is a subcommittee of the Hastings-on-Hudson Conservation Commission and contributes to Hastings' Climate Smart Communities Task Force. Its members research and implement community-wide solutions to help diminish the tonnage that is trucked to, and incinerated at, the WIN Waste incinerator in Peekskill, to which 36 communities, representing approximately 90 percent of Westchester County’s population, send their trash.
Join us!
Get in touch at hastingszwat@gmail.com
where should i start?
where should i start?
First, visit Hastings' Village website to make sure you're familiar with basic rules and schedules for trash and curbside recycling.
Next, get into the mindset of decreasing consumption. Use what you have, reduce purchases with excess packaging, and choose quality over quantity. With these simple shifts, you will begin to reduce your waste and its impact on our community and the communities around us.
Think: refuse, reduce, repair, compost, recycle—discarding should be a last resort. Do a trash audit and examine what your household is throwing out and recycling. Refuse what you don't need (especially freebies!). Can you buy less? Can you do without? Can you find a reusable or a previously owned alternative? The less waste you create, the lighter your footprint.
It doesn't just go "away." Understanding where it goes an important first step in reducing your waste. Learn about it here.
"Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do Without"
"Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do Without"
Use what you have, shop locally, borrow, buy used, and avoid packaging. Learn how to acquire things more sustainably.
It's easy to put things out to the curb, but it's better to find ways to give things new life. These are our preferred methods and resources.
Repairing is one of the best ways to reduce consumption and waste. Learn how and where to repair your beloved items.
Food waste is a huge problem, but your scraps can be turned into compost in your backyard or you can bring them to Hastings commercial food scrap drop. There's even a local pickup service business!
Many Hastings' downtown businesses embrace low-waste efforts. Did you know a local dry cleaner offers a reusable garment bag? Support local and go low-waste at the same time.
Our favorite links to resources where you can learn about the issues and how you can help .
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