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 ...

Compulsory composting became enforceable by fines in New York City starting at the beginning of the month, leaving some ...

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

Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images At a preliminary budget hearing last month, DSNY said it has sent out citywide mailers about the composting fines; the department is also meeting with every ...

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

said Piasecki. At a preliminary budget hearing last month, DSNY said it has sent out citywide mailers about the composting fines; the department is also meeting with every community board and holding ...

The city has increased processing capacity to prepare for the shift. It issued tens of thousands of warnings before ...

Those compost projects were largely the victim of budget cuts during Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, but he later set the stage for the current program with a 2013 initiative that included ...