The city issued 1,885 violations related to New York City’s new composting rules in the first week of enforcement, according ...

New Yorkers can now get fined for not separating their food scraps. Some critics say that's not the right approach.

The retired Queens resident knew that effective April 1, the citywide program of separating compostable organic material from ...

The city runs the nation’s largest organics program. It has shifted processing capacity in recent years with new contracts ...

The city has issued hundreds of daily summonses to New Yorkers who aren’t complying with new composting rules, according to ...

The New York City Council introduced a bill Thursday to make composting voluntary after some backlash from angry New Yorkers, officials said. The bill, sponsored by the ...

Not composting your food scraps yet? You can now be fined for that. Starting New York residents must compost all household ...

The Common Sense Caucus aims to introduce legislation making the recently implemented mandatory household composting program ...

Starting this week, the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has begun enforcing new composting regulations ...

According to the DSNY, sanitation supervisors may open and investigate trash bags to ensure that food waste is not being ...

Waste reduction efforts are entering a new phase this week, as the city's sanitation agency begins enforcing mandatory ...