Randy Mastro, Mayor Adams’ top deputy at City Hall, ordered the Sanitation Department this week to stop fining most building ...

The Adams administration announced Friday it is relaxing its enforcement on violations of a new citywide composting mandate, ...

The New York City Department of Sanitation has announced the opening of a new compost distribution site in Astoria in ...

Curbside composting is still mandatory in the city, but for now fines will only be issued to repeat offenders at buildings ...

For those who have been trashing New York City’s recent composting law, you’ve been given a brief window to get on board — or ...

New York City is pausing most fines for residents who are not composting to give them more time to learn how to sort waste properly.

New York City is temporarily pausing fines on smaller buildings found not composting, city officials said Thursday. Effective immediately, compost fines will not affect ...

Residents will be able to pick up free 40-pound bags of compost from 77-28 19th Avenue in Astoria. Acting Sanitation ...

Here’s a compilation of their suggestions, all quite easy to do: Use homemade or eco-friendly cleaning solutions. Homemade ...

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 ...

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

The retired Queens resident knew that effective April 1, the citywide program of separating compostable organic material from regular garbage and placing it by the curb in a city-issue brown ...