• BEGINNING NOVEMBER 1ST, 2025, THE TRANSFER STATION IS EXPANDING ITS HOURS AND WILL BE OPEN TUESDAYS THROUGH SATURDAYS -- 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. 
• There will be bulk cardboard drop-off allowed on Wednesdays and Fridays.  (Bulk cardboard is defined as more than 5 pieces.)  On Tuesdays through Saturdays, you are limited to 5 pieces of cardboard or less.
• On Sundays, Mondays and holidays, the Transfers Station will be closed.  Check the online calendar for Town offices holiday schedule.

 

Closed when severe winter storm and unsafe travel conditions exist.  In uncertain weather conditions, please call 845-246-2800 extension 16. The number for the Animal Shelter is 845-679-0339.

The fee schedule for the Saugerties Town Transfer Station for 2025 appears below (and can be downloaded as a document).

Note that no toxic materials (including oil), no electronics and NO PAINTS can be accepted, as of Jan. 1, 2023.  (If you have oil-based paint or latex/acrylic paints to recycle, you can drop the oil-based paint cans off at the Ulster County Hazardous Home Waste events.  As of May 1st, 2022, for both oil-based and latex/acrylic paints, you can bring them to the PaintCare-designated sites.  The 2 Ulster County sites (and 1 nearby-to-Saugerties Greene County site) that are expected to be ready to accept paints to be recycled are:

• Sherwin-Williams Paint Store, 568 Albany Avenue, Kingston (845-339-6994)
• Herzog's True-Value Home Center, 151 Kingston Plaza Road, Kingston (845-338-6300)
• Sherwin-Williams Paint Store, 44 Grandview Plaza, Catskill (518-943-4910)

Small quantities of homeowner generated construction and demolition (C & D) waste will still be accepted.  Larger amounts, i.e.pick-up trucks and larger will no longer be accepted.  No C & D waste will be accepted from commercial C & D waste generated on a contractor/homeowner project.

If you need to dispose of electronics, consider that Staples in Kingston not only accepts old, discarded computers and computer printers, but also gives you credits if you're part of their frequent buyer program.  (Essentially, they will take and recycle any electronics other than kitchen appliances and TVs.)

Use of the Saugerties Transfer Station requires purchasing a permit, plus applicable fees (see Fee Schedule immediately following), depending upon what is being brought to the Transfer Station for disposal.  Buying a permit involves visiting the Transfer Station during the listed hours (Tuesday and Saturday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.) and carrying out the transaction there.

2026 Fee Schedule

The 2026 Transfer Station fee schedule is shown immediately below.  (These fees, which took effect January 1, 2026, are available in PDF form below, under "Documents".)  

As mentioned above, the Saugerties Transfer Station accepts recyclable items.  The following UCRRA handout provides a guide as to which items are acceptable versus which ones are not (so called "Wish-Cycle" items ).

The Village disposal/recycling facility at Steele Place also accepts recyclable items (there are bins for "Light Cardboard or Paper", "Mix Recycle (Glass, Tin, Plastic)" and "Corrugated Heavy Cardboard".  For more information about Steele Place recycling/disposal, click here.

Finally, the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) has an electronics recycling program (covered here) and a hazardous household waste program (covered here).

There are a number of opportunities to ensure items of yours that you might be ready to dispose of can possibly be reused, either after fixing or mending, or through donations to various groups.

For a quick checklist of reuse possibilities, please review the following:

• Repair Cafés are free community gatherings where people come together to fix broken items with the help of skilled volunteer repairers. Visitors bring things like clothes, appliances, furniture, bikes, and toys, and work side by side with experts in a hands-on, shared learning experience. Even if you don’t have anything to repair, you can relax with coffee or tea, help others, or get inspired by repair and DIY resources.  You can visit the Saugerties Repair Café page, or you can learn more about the Repair Café movement in general here.
• Clothing Drop-Offs.  Like most towns and villages, Saugerties has a number of locations where clothing that is no longer being used can be dropped off.  (Too many to list here.)
  
  Some of the drop-off locations most often mentioned are:
  • Hudson Valley national Center for Veteran Reintegration (HVNCVR).  The Saugerties HVNCVR building is located at 24 Twin Maples Plaza.  Phone number is 845-481-4004.
  • The Well.  Run by the Saugerties Area Council of Churches.  257 Main Street.  845-247-3154
  • Family of Woodstock's Darmstadt Center.  Address: 40 Thomas Street, Kingston.  845-331-1395
    
    There is also a lot of activity on the popular Saugerties Village Facebook page, with questions and answers about people who want to donate or receive clothing and other used goods.

Finally, Ulster County Resource Recover Agency (UCRRA) has a number of reuse efforts listed on their website.

COMPOSTING! - Keep Food Waste Out of Household Garbage!

Use the Composting Program at Saugerties Transfer Station. Bring a bucket or pail filled with food scraps and leave lighter and happier.

Whether it is composting in your yard or sharing your food scraps with a farmer or community garden, help keep food waste out of garbage cans!  Enable compost to be used to make new soil for more plants. Recycle organic waste to make healthy plants. In the process, you'll be keeping methane gas out landfills, and reducing both the cost of operating a municipal transfer station and the size of the materials that are eventually sent to a landfill.

Economics and environmental concerns combine when it comes to keeping organic/biodegradable food waste of all kinds out of household garbage.

The regulations for food waste are very strict so this is something that can only be handled by properly outfitted trucks and containers taken to a properly run composting system. Both aerated and non-aerated systems for taking scraps and turning them into rich fertile compost.

• Where: Town of Saugerties, Transfer Station, 1765 Route 212, Saugerties, NY 12477

• When: 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

• Cost: Free drop off with a Transfer Station Permit, or with a Composting Permit.

• Resident Composting Permit: You can bring compost if you have a Transfer Station Permit ($35/year; Non-resident Permit: $55/year) or a  Composting Permit ($20/year for resident and non-resident alike).

• How: Obtain a composting permit or a transfer station permit.  Bring reusable container, 3-5 gallon bucket, to empty weekly accumulation of food waste to the large totem containers, that are emptied each week by the private composting company, Community Compost Co., based in Ulster County.

Image above shows a Community Compost Company employee picking up food scraps from the Saugerties Transfer Station.  The Community Compost Company picks up and hauls the food scraps once a week. 

Composting Rules and Guides:

• Yes: To all food waste, all food.
• No: To liquids, grease, oils,   ...   Do not use Plastic Bags. 

The following image shows which items are compostable and which are not.

Also in the "Yes!" column -- Meat, bones and dairy are all fine.

It is important to strictly follow this guide, as the company that the Town contacts with for this composting process has reported that they are seeing more and more contamination of the materials being put in the recycling bin.  This results in increased expense for sorting, that the Town will have to pay this contractor.

Composting is a service that the Town is offering today for many good reasons; but we need to pass along this warning, as the expense for contamination in compost bins may someday become cost prohibitive.

The products that are being picked out lately due to them contaminating the legitimate/allowable compost items are: bags, containers, gloves, hot and cold cups, condiment packets, straws, hot and cold cups, utensils, molded fiber plates, and takeout containers.  All of these products (including all of the red items in the image above) contain ingredients that are not accepted for producing organic-approved compost. 

Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) Composting Program

UCRRA has a food composting program that helps unite the various Ulster County composting efforts.  It is described on this UCRRA Composting Program page.

Composting at Home ("Backyard Composting")

Home composting can significantly reduce waste while creating a finished compost that has many environmental benefits. The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) maintains backyard composting resource on their website: https://ucrra.org/waste-recycling/food-waste/home-composting/

There is also very useful "Composting at Home" information on the U.S Environmental Protection Agency's Composting at Home page, covered in the next section.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Composting at Home

The EPA’s official home composting page is one of the most authoritative general guides from a federal environmental agency. It explains:

• Backyard composting basics (materials to include/avoid, ratios, turning, moisture)
• Vermicomposting (worm composting)
• When compost is ready to use in your garden

This is a great starting point, grounded in sustainable waste practices.

EPA Home Composting Guide: epa.gov/recycle/composting-home 

Wastes and chemicals that are potentially toxic, flammable, caustic, or chemically reactive are considered Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and should never be thrown into the trash. 

 

The preceding section described the Village's Steele Place facility as an option for disposal of yard waste, as well as garbage and recycling (Wednesdays and Saturdays).  Following is a map to the Steele Place facility.

Note: As of April 7, 2015, the Town of Saugerties Transfer Station no longer accepts  brush from residents due to the expense involved in processing the  brush. 

As an alternative to the Transfer Station, Saugerties residents may bring yard waste (leaves/brush) to the Steele Place drop-off area for disposal any week of the year (Wednesdays and Saturdays).  Also, there is a garbage and recycling service available at Steele Place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.  Recycling is FREE and garbage is charged based on the size of the bag.  Here are the days/times you can drop off leaves/brush and/or bring trash and recycling:

Day	Leaves/Brush?	Trash/Recycling?	Times
Monday	no	no
Tuesday	no	no
Wednesday	yes	yes	7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Thursday	no	no
Friday	no	no
Saturday	yes	yes	7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

 

Post-Christmas, if you want to deposit your tree there, you can do so (again, on Wednesday and Fridays only).

NOTICE REGARDING USE OF STEELE PLACE: There have been increasing instances of people dropping off trees during off hours/days.  Additionally, there have been increasing instances of people dropping off disallowed items (furniture and other garbage items).  The Steele Place facility is kept open by the Village of Saugerties for the convenience of Saugerties residents ... but please note that continued violations could result in the discontinuance of this popular leaf and brush drop-off service.

For a map to Steele Place (off North Street), open the accordion section immediately below.