Public Announcements   Welcome to Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency   Please note: The monthly Board Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 15th, 2025   Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Recycling Events for 2025.   June 7th at 626 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (Online registration opens May 7th) September 13th at Dutchess County Fairgrounds 6596 Route 9, Rhinebeck NY (Online registration opens August 13th) October 18th at 626 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (Online registration opens September 18th) Online registration will be located here one month prior to each event date. Registration and $10 prepayment required. Please check the County website  <Here> for further information.   In 2024 the Dutchess County Resource Recovery Facility (RRA) safely incinerated 8,516 pounds of household pharmaceuticals at our waste-to-energy facility! This community service, provided by the RRA, and our operator, WIN Waste Innovations, is provided to law enforcement agencies in Dutchess County and seven surrounding counties free of charge. From our county alone, over 3,767 pounds of medications were incinerated last year. Our service keeps medications out of our waters, as well as, the hands of those who would abuse them or accidently ingest them. We have safely incinerated over 118,600 pounds (over 59.3 tons) since we started providing this service in 2009.

Resource Recovery Facility

The Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency (RRA) is a public benefit agency that was established by the New York State Legislature in 1982 to oversee the construction, financing and operation of the Resource Recovery Facility (RRF), which opened in 1989. The RRF is a waste-to-energy facility that combusts most of the garbage that is collected in Dutchess County and is operated by Win Waste Innovations Dutchess County LLC. The RRF has a capacity of processing 164,000 tons of post-recycled waste per year and has a turbine that converts energy from the waste, which is then sold to Central Hudson Gas & Electric. The facility can turn 450 tons of waste into 5.8 megawatts (MW) of renewable power every day, enough to power over 4,800 homes. The facility also recovers 10 to 12 million pounds of ferrous metals from the waste for recycling each year.

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