Businesses send 600,000 pounds of food waste to the Franklin County landfill every day. New composting programs are aimed at ...

Just weeks after NYC started enforcing its new compost rules​, officials say they are pausing some of the fines.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York City is pumping the brakes on enforcement of its new mandatory composting program, ...

Relief on a new citywide mandate to separate food and yard waste comes with a pledge to enhance public education on how to ...

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

These fines are getting trashed. The city is backing off on heavy monetary penalties for those who fail to compost their ...

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