In the first 10 days after the law went into effect, the Sanitation Department slammed property owners with nearly 2,500 ...

Mountains of muck, those stinky black spots of mixed garbage ... composting mechanism has meant that a big chunk of the wet waste gets mixed up and eventually ends up in landfills. Can the ...

Did you know that nearly 30% of the waste thrown into household bins is organic material that could be composted This ...

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

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

Heather Billings, food waste reduction ... a 23-gallon trash can into which went tomato tops and other food scraps. Then came the dumpster inspection. Could anything in there go to compost?

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.

Failing to separate residential compost waste, which includes leaves, grass and food scraps, will now subject the violator to a fine.

State officials have reported some progress getting people to divert things out of the waste stream, but CT’s trash problem ...

Weekend drop-off events Each Saturday and Sunday, DPW operates 12 staffed drop-off sites at farmers markets and community ...

This is about residents of the state of Connecticut changing their behavior and making better decisions about material management, from their homes to the curb to the transfer station,” said ...