By the Bronxville Green Committee 

May 12, 2025: On Saturday, May 17, 10AM-1PM, TAKE BACK DAY returns to Bronxville!

Here’s your chance to clean house by donating items for reuse or recycling – and make a positive environmental impact. By refusing, reducing, reusing, and recycling, we can eliminate much of our household solid waste stream and take important steps to ensure the health of our local environment.

The trash we generate is incinerated at a plant in Peekskill.  The costs and pollution produced by transporting and burning it exact a significant toll on our pocketbooks and health. New York State has set a new goal of recycling 85% of the entire waste-stream by 2050, and the Village of Bronxville has numerous programs that make it easier for residents to participate in this effort. By responsibly recycling glass, metal, and plastic in your curbside pickup; participating in Bronxville’s Food Scrap Recycling program; calling HELPSY to donate used clothing and textiles; dropping books in the permanent bins behind Village Hall; and donating items at TAKE BACK DAY, we can make significant strides in reaching this goal!

Two Drop-Off Sites: 

1) Shredding: Elementary School Parking Lot, for drop-off of sensitive documents to be shredded. Line up along Midland Avenue, going south as you would for school drop-off and pick-up.

Up to four file-sized (10”x12”x15”) boxes of personal confidential papers per household. The county requests that you remove all large binder clips and covers. Junk mail and newspapers belong in your recycling bin at home. Keep in mind that once the county’s mobile shredder is full, it won’t be able to accept more items, so plan to arrive early.

2) Other Donations: From Midland Avenue, enter and exit Palumbo Place (behind Village Hall) for drop-off of the following:

BACK! Electronics for safe dismantling and recycling by Westchester County, including desktops, laptops, and tablets; TVs; FAX machines, VCRs, printers, related cords, and small kitchen appliances with electronic components. No batteries of any kind. By New York State law, all electronics must be kept out of the regular waste stream. See our website for Westchester County data security policies. NOTE: Many items have electronic components; we are not able to recycle all of them. Please bring only the items listed here.

BACK! Gently used clothing for children and adults, curtains (no hardware), bed and table linens, purses, backpacks, belts, shoes: Collected by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Family Services of Westchester; proceeds support youth mentoring programs.

BACK! Clean used towels and blankets (no sheets), to be distributed to local animal shelters. We can also accept small animal carriers and beds.

BACK! Soccer Gear & Equipment: Collected by the Foundation for Education in Honduras; youth soccer balls, jerseys, shorts, socks, cleats, shin guards, pinnies and bags.

ANY TIME! Books: Drop off books for donation or recycling at the permanent bins located behind Village Hall.  Available at all times, not just on TAKE BACK DAY! All books are accepted, including hardcovers and paperbacks, workbooks and reference books.

NEW! Corks (no plastic corks), collected for ReCork.

NEW! Eyeglasses (must be intact; no cases), collected for Lions International.

NEW! Used Sneakers and Running Shoes (any condition), in collaboration with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, GotSneakers? and City Harvest.

For a quick refresher on recycling rules and for more information on how to dispose of and recycle items that are not included in curbside pickup, please visit the Waste Not section of our website.

A huge THANK YOU! to members of the Bronxville Department of Public Works (DPW), who give up part of their Saturdays twice a year to make this event possible.  Please show your respect to the staff by NOT bringing items that are not accepted on Take Back Day. Place closed boxes and securely tied bags in trunks or hatchbacks, or on back seats. Volunteers will be happy to assist with unloading and distributing.

Thank you for supporting TAKE BACK DAY!

The Bronxville Green Committee is a volunteer organization that is part of the Village of Bronxville. We work to propose and implement environmentally sustainable programs in our community. Visit our website and follow us on Instagram @bxvgreencommittee to learn more.