Starting April 1, all New Yorkers must start composting their trash, separating all organic material, like food scraps and plastic plates, and place them in marked bins outside of their homes. News 12 ...

Nearly three weeks after the city began enforcing mandatory curbside composting, the Department of Sanitation is telling Queens locals to come reap their rewards. Starting Wednesday, April 23, ...

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 — ...

The city Department of Sanitation will begin enforcing fines to residents who don’t abide by the city’s curbside composting program beginning Tuesday, April 1. Residents will have to separate organic ...

This is where trash turns into treasure. Millions of disgusting, leaking bags of rotting food collected from New York City streets every week are digested and spat back out as “black gold” as part of ...

Nothing says spring like a fresh pile of compost. A third compost distribution site is set to open in Queens next week, the city’s sanitation department announced this week. Residents will be able to ...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Mandatory composting went into effect in October 2024 in New York City, but starting Tuesday, those who do not comply with the law-mandated waste reduction program will be ...

Earlier in the year we reported on where you could drop your food scraps for composting. Most of that compost went to improving city property and community gardens and organizations. But unless you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New York City Sanitation Department rear-loading truck pauses on a Brooklyn street on Oct. 20, 2025. (Jacob Wallace/Waste Dive) ...

But before you jump straight to reporting your building, it’s probably best to approach your super first. After all, he ...