Know your local recycling guidelines:

• See Westchester County Quick Recycling Guide 

• Visit the NYS Recycle Right "Recyclopedia" website or download the Recycle Right Westchester app by Sustainable Westchester. Both provide curbside trash and recycling guidelines with a searchable tool to confirm how to properly dispose of and recycle over 300 common household items. 

• Don’t “wish cycle.” When in doubt, throw it out!

Properly prepare your recyclables for curbside pick up:

• Plastic, metal, and glass containers should be rinsed and dry. You can put the plastic top back on. Do NOT put them in plastic bags, keep them loose in bins. 

• Cardboard and paperboard boxes should be empty and flat. Do your best to remove tape, labels, and staples, as well as film plastic such as cellophane windows. Trash any contaminated portions, such as the greasy part of the pizza box. 

• Use a recycling bin with a secure lid to prevent items from blowing away or getting wet. If inclement weather is expected the night before pickup day, consider waiting and putting the bin curbside early the following morning. The less wet the better!

Food Waste Recycling: This is not hands on composting – it’s just another recycling stream in your home to help divert food scraps from the landfill or incinerator to then be composted by a professional service to create organic nutrient rich matter. It also helps reduce pollution and methane gas by diverting it from the trash stream.

There are two food scrap recycling options in Bronxville:

1) The Village’s Free Drop off Program: This is a Westchester County program that makes food scrap recycling easy for residents and benefits the Village. See HERE for more information on how to join, obtain a kit and drop off your food scraps.

2) Hudson Compost’s Curbside Membership Program: This program is run by a private company that provides weekly curbside pickup for food scraps for that monthly fee. See HERE for more information. 

Film Plastic: This kind of plastic, which includes plastic bags, bread bags, dry cleaning bags, and plastic shrink wrap, does NOT belong in your mixed recycling bin or the trash.  Instead, it should be deposited in collection bins at larger retail stores, including Acme in Bronxville. Products made from film plastic include durable outdoor furniture such as the bench recently installed at the Bronxville Giving Garden. See more information HERE.

Books: Drop your used books at Bronxville’s collection bin located at the DPW behind Village Hall at Palumbo Place. Books will be donated to literacy programs or sold online by a third party. All types of books are accepted, including hardcovers and paperbacks, textbooks and workbooks. Books that are not donated or sold will be properly recycled. 

Hazardous Waste: Electronics, car batteries, refrigerators, A/Cs, and other items, all of which contain toxic material, must be brought to the Hazardous Materials Recovery Facility (H-MRF) in Valhalla for safe dismantling and recycling or disposal. Appointments are needed and, drop off is curbside and very easy! See more information HERE.

Medications: Never put them down the drain. It’s best to bring them to the H-MRF for proper disposal or drop them off at the Bronxville Police Station; call ahead to make sure they’re still accepting them.

Paint: If the cans are empty or the paint is dried out, they can be included with garbage for curbside pickup. Otherwise, paint can be dropped off to local retailers to be recycled as part of New York State’s Paint Care program. Kawer Paint and Sherwin-Willams are local retailers that accept them. Leftover paint can also be taken to the Westchester County H-MRF mentioned above.

Batteries: The Bronxville High School Earth Club is collecting alkaline batteries for recycling during Earth Month, look for the bin in the foyer of Village Hall. Batteries are collected all year at Staples in Tuckahoe.   

American Flags: Collected all year in the foyer of Village Hall

Yard Waste: Ask your landscaping service where they take yard waste and make sure it’s NOT sent to the Peekskill incinerator.  The Village will pick up yard waste left at the curb, including leaves, and take it to the Eastchester Transfer area at Twin Lakes Park, where it is partially composted before being shipped elsewhere.