Westchester Alliance For Sustainable Solutions

Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions (WASS) is a county-wide effort to move our communities to Zero Waste and make Wheelabrator-Peekskill obsolete.

Our focus is to educate Westchester municipalities about the dangers of trash incineration and the ease and importance of adopting alternative solutions.

Peekskill, NY is an environmental justice community that is home to the Wheelabrator facility that burns most of Westchester County’s trash. It is the largest source of air pollution in the county, the health impacts of which are harming Peekskill and neighboring communities.

Join us to stop this environmental racism and find solutions that don’t hurt our people an our environment!

Join our email list to keep up to date on efforts. If you or your organization would like to join our alliance, email us at WASSPeekskill@gmail.com

New Peekskill group aims to close Wheelabrator incineratorPeekskill’s distinction of hosting the largest polluter in Westchester County and the city’s designation as an environmental justice community were instrumental in the awarding of grant money to hire a community organizer for the newly formed Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions (WASS). The group was created to lead a county-wide effort to move all Westchester...