Food and Yard Waste Drop-Off Sites

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You can bring your food scraps and yard waste to a drop-off site for composting.

Food and yard waste drop-off sites only accept certain items.

Accepted	Not Accepted
Bread, stale beans, and grains	Animal feces and cat litter
Coffee grounds, filters, and paper tea bags	Biodegradable or compostable plastics
Egg shells and nutshells	Cheese or dairy products
Feathers	Coal or charcoal ashes
Flour and spices	Colored or glossy paper
Flowers, houseplants, and potting soil	Fats, grease, oil, or oily foods
Food-soiled paper towels and napkins	Meat or fish scraps
Fruit and vegetable scraps	Plants and soil diseased and infested with insects
Sawdust and wood shavings from untreated wood	Plastics, metal, and glass
Shredded newspapers	Sawdust from pressure-treated plywood or lumber

You can throw in ripped-up, plain paper bags with your food waste at the drop-off sites. Compostable plastic bags are also accepted for composting at some sites. Ask staff members at the site for details.

You can’t compost:

Plastic shopping bags
Paper bags with glossy coatings
Plastic food containers
Other non-recyclable disposable containers

You can’t throw these out with your food and yard waste and must take these bags or containers home with you if you use them to carry your waste to the drop-off site.

You can contact the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) if you would like to open and host a public food scrap drop-off site in your community.

You can also:

Suggest a location for a future drop-off site
Add an existing drop-off site to DSNY’s site map

Contact DSNY.

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Food and Yard Waste Drop-Off Sites

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