NEW YORK (PIX11) — Garbage and compost collections will restart on Tuesday night, the Department of Sanitation posted on its Facebook page. This comes days after a blizzard dumped over two feet of ...

A record-breaking 3.8 million poundsof compost was collected in the second week of a new recycling mandate — a number so overwhelming that the city is opening a new site dedicated to the “black gold.” ...

Additionally, the city has set up orange compost bins on street corners across the five boroughs where New Yorkers can drop off food waste, including meat, bones, dairy, prepared foods, and greasy ...

Is New York City getting its composting program right? On ground that was once the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, trucks unload food scraps and yard waste, filling the air with the sharp tang ...

Failure to compost comes with a fine in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York City. On his first day in office, Mamdani’s administration quietly began fining New Yorkers for not separating their organic ...

Randy Mastro, Mayor Adams’ top deputy at City Hall, ordered the Sanitation Department this week to stop fining most building owners over failing to comply with the city’s new mandatory composting ...

In a major reversal, the Adams administration has ordered New York City sanitation inspectors to stop issuing fines to most buildings that break composting rules for the rest of the year. Curbside ...

NEW YORK - Some Bronx residents are voicing their issues with the composting mandate and fines implemented by the New York City Department of Sanitation. Rochelle Mandina in Morris Park says she used ...

After forcing New Yorkers to spend billions of dollars for the privilege of sorting their garbage into recycling bins, municipal officials have found an even costlier — and grubbier — way for ...

One Queens politician has some creative ideas on how to make the most of the thousands of composting buckets the city is dumping on New Yorkers — as some of her colleagues in the City Council whine ...