Rockland Green operates three strategically located transfer stations that serve residents and businesses throughout the region with efficient solid waste management services.

Watch the video on how it all works!

What Makes Rockland Green Transfer Stations Effective

The Rockland Green transfer stations accept municipal solid waste for consolidation and transport to out-of-county solid waste disposal facilities. Hand unloading is now permitted at the Hillburn Transfer Station, providing added convenience for smaller loads.

All transfer stations operate with strict safety protocols. All drivers and helpers must stay with their vehicles while unloading. Safety vests are also required for all drivers and helpers.

How to Use Rockland Green Transfer Stations

First, check the rates chart for acceptable materials at each transfer station. Credit cards are the only form of accepted payment.

To dispose of waste at the transfer station, please stop first at the Scalehouse. The Scalehouse operators will determine the total weight of your vehicle and waste, then direct you where to go to dump your waste. You will then return to the Scalehouse to determine the empty weight of your vehicle and the total weight of waste dumped.

Beyond Waste Disposal: Comprehensive Services

While transfer stations handle solid waste, Rockland Green Solid Waste Authority provides waste management services, disposal sites, and other Rockland recycling services to residents & businesses. In doing so, we help redirect 20,000+ tons of recyclables from landfills annually!

It’s all part of our commitment to responsible waste management, providing essential services that keep Rockland County clean and sustainable.

Video Transcript:

Ron Ludwig, Rockland Green Assistant Operations Manager. We’re at the Hillburn transfer station now, demonstrating how a garbage trailer gets loaded.

Right now, it’s a very low trash time of day, but the roll-offs and garbage trucks come in, dump on the floor, the front loader machine pushes it to the excavator and then the excavator loads the tipping trailer.

When the trailer is loaded, we have an in-ground scale that the truck can average its weight on before it goes to the main scale for the final destination.

This is all household stuff, this stuff here is just empty containers, buckets.

I’m at the Rockland transfer station in Hillburn, the old landfill. This is a tarping rack. We back our trailers in there. Back there are all the empties that we’ll be using. This afternoon, trucks will come in, we’ll take them out, up to the landfill for tomorrow morning delivery.