ITHACA, N.Y. (WHCU) – Tompkins County’s composting program eliminated more than 1 million pounds of food garbage last year.

Residents used the Tompkins County Department of Recycling and Materials Management organics program’s seventeen food scraps recycling drop spots 82,000 times and generated more than 534 tons of material in 2022. The food scraps are processed at the Recycling and Solid Waste Center’s food scraps transfer station and then delivered to Cayuga Compost in Trumansburg.