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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Since then, the New York City Department of Sanitation has issued nearly 30,000 warnings for not composting, according to DSNY Deputy Commissioner Joshua Goodman. Starting April 1, those warnings will ...

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 ...

Property owners and landlords in New York City can now be fined $25 or more if residents are found throwing a banana peel in the trash. As of April 1, all New Yorkers must separate organic waste ...

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 ...