Kitchen scraps would be composted, not tossed out with the trash, under a voluntary, pandemic-delayed recycling program now being dusted off by the Lewisboro Town Board. Residents who embrace the idea would bring food waste to a central location—a couple of sites are under consideration—from which it would be trucked to an upstate recycling facility to be turned into soil-enriching compost.
Robert Fischman, who chairs Lewisboro’s Sustainability Committee, updated the board at its March 14 meeting on progress with the effort. He said Jessica Gallagher, a committee member, “did all the hard work in pulling this together.”
First discussed in 2019, the program was sidelined by COVID before recently re-emerging, back in the spotlight. Fischman said his committee would like to launch on Earth Day, April 22. Food scraps can make up as much as half of a home’s waste stream. But instead of scraping leftovers into a catchall trash can, residents in this program would use the bins included in a composting kit to store scraps before taking them to the central disposal bin.