Too Good To Toss

To protect public health, and comply with NY State social distancing regulations, the Too Good To Toss Community Swap and EarthFest have been cancelled for Spring 2020. Please do NOT drop off any donations at the Stanley Deming Park basketball court.

Too Good To Toss is Warwick’s annual community swap held on the closet weekend to Earth Day. It is a 2-day event, part of our EarthFest celebration.

MISSION: To divert unwanted, but perfectly good items from the landfill via a town-wide community swap.

2020 DETAILS — Cancelled, to comply with NYS social distancing regulations

Location: Basketball Court at Stanley Deming Park, South Street, Warwick, NY

This not-for-profit, all volunteer-run event is FREE to the community, but we do have expenses. Cash donations will be gratefully accepted at the gate.

Sat. April 25th Donation Day, 10am-4pm:

Please check here for a list of items that we can’t accept. All other items that you’d like to donate must be clean, in good working order/repair, with all their parts. Please bring your items to the basketball court. Volunteers will be available to help you unload your vehicle. You’ll be asked to wait outside the basketball court while volunteers check and sort all donations to make sure that they meet our standards. You’ll need take back any items that we can’t accept.

Sun. April 26th “Shopping Day”, 10am-4pm:

Take away what you can safely carry for free! The gates open at 10 am, but we always have guests lined up early (sometimes at 7am). For everyone’s safety, we must limit the number of people admitted to the court at any one time. As the line shrinks, later in the day, we’ll be able to admit more people more quickly.

For everyone’s safety and convenience, please respect our house rules:

Please wait your turn to be admitted

No stock piling of goods - Keep aisles clear

Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

No pets allowed

No smoking

If you leave the basketball court, for any reason, you MUST go to the back of the line to re-enter. No one will be permitted to re-enter through the exit

When you’ve finished shopping, take your things to the designated holding space outside the basketball court. A volunteer will watch them while you go get your vehicle.

Things that you choose to take are at your own risk. Too Good To Toss, Wickham Works, Earthfest, organizers, volunteers, co-sponsors, supporters, etc. are NOT liable.

PARKING: Some parking will be available at the Park Ave Elementary School parking lot. Regardless of where you park we recommend you do it legally -no parking on the grass.

HISTORY: BecauseWarwick doesn’t have a materials exchange place or Reuse Center like that in New Paltz, in 2017, Elizabeth Knight Moss planned Too Good To Toss, a two-day, town-wide community swap to be held prior to the annual bulk pick up. The idea was to collect and organize unwanted items into shoppable categories in a convenient location, rather than on the street, thus reducing the amount of useful goods trucked to a landfill.

Too Good To Toss, initially sponsored by Sustainable Warwick, quickly grew, garnering town-wide attention and support. Every year, the Village and the Town of Warwick pay the rental costs for tents, tables, and chairs to shelter donations, shoppers and volunteers on dry and wet days (see photos below of our volunteers braving the mud last year!) In 2019 Too Good To Toss and Wickham Works’ Treecycle came together to form Earth Fest, Warwick with Wickham Works as the fiscal sponsor. Sustainable Warwick continues to support Too Good To Toss both monetarily and through supportive action.

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