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

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

The New York City Department of Sanitation has announced the opening of a new compost distribution site in Astoria in response to rising demand and a surge in compostable material collected from ...

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 else the fines will start to roll in. New York City’s waste reduction ...

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 ...

The city runs the nation’s largest organics program. It has increased processing capacity in recent years with new contracts and a composting facility expansion.

Those compost projects were largely the victim of budget cuts during Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, but he later ...

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 ...