Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions- WASS

06/17/2026

Join us help make Pride in the Park a Zero Waste event!

06/17/2026

Come join us at the Peekskill Pride Event on June 27th, 2-6 pm. Have a great time and help to make it a closer to Zero Waste event! Please sign up for a shift - it doesn't need to be for the full 4 hours.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4AABAD2BABFF2-63594455-cacspring #/

06/17/2026

06/17/2026

What would Westchester County Department of Environmental Facilities do if this happened at WIN-Waste in Peekskill?

Our firefighters responding, our city's first responders risking their lives, our air full of smoke, our trash being exported to harm other communities.

It's time Ken Jenkins and Westchester County Government planned ahead to end reliance on trash incineration. We are harmed every single day by the normal operations of the county's largest industrial air polluter.

ROCHESTER – A large fire was reported at the SEMASS trash to energy plant in Rochester early Sunday afternoon. A third alarm response activated a Bourne engine to cover a Wareham fire station…

06/16/2026

Tomorrow evening from 7:30-8:30, presenters Jude Joerger from Hudson Compost, MJ Wilson from Hudson River Music Festival, and Helen Meurer from Pleasantville Music Festival will show us how to teach large audiences to divert material from the incinerator! Join us for a primer on summer fun.
Learn more and register at https://www.facebook.com/share/1Bk7UNJiJW/

06/10/2026

We were so happy to achieve such a Zero Waste result at our recent waste summit at Pace University! We diverted so much from the incinerator that day with help from our partners and volunteers.

Zero Waste events go from possible to probable to produced with a little extra education and planning. Next week's virtual WASS taskforce meeting will teach you how to make it easy for large events to provide only compostable or reusable items and for eventgoers to find the right receptacle for what they're holding! Register at wasspeekskill.org/meeting or learn more at https://www.facebook.com/share/1KYtEPQZjD/

06/09/2026

Thank you to PeekskillHerald.com for inviting WASS founder Courtney Williams to speak at their community forum! We were excited to share incinerator diversion strategies and hear about the work of MendByMe https://www.mendbyme.org/ and Retake/Remake in providing long life to clothing and craft materials through donation, repair, and reuse!

06/03/2026

06/01/2026

Save the date to save all your classroom supplies from the landfill! We’re dedicating two days to collect all your gently used school supplies (no appointment needed) after local schools dismiss for the summer. Your donations will be processed to give back to teachers at our FREE back-to-school event, rerouted to local nonprofit groups, or to sell to the community at affordable prices. Share with your community and schools!