Massachusetts has a fix: A state regulation requires businesses to keep food out of dumpsters. To help them comply, the state ...

Composting is the simplest way to turn your trash into treasure. Not only can it help reduce the world’s carbon footprint, ...

Confusion about curbside composting has been rising as April 1 approaches. That is when buildings in New York City that don’t ...

New Yorkers are required to compost all their organic waste under a sanitation department rule that went into effect back in ...

Here’s how to confidently choose which items go in the garbage disposal, recycling bin, compost bin, or trash can.

New York City’s waste reduction efforts will commence a new phase next week, as the city’s sanitation agency will begin enforcing a law-mandated composting program with fines. Starting April 1, ...

The project started with a simple observation. “We noticed a lot of food waste every day after lunch,” said one Mettawee ...

Curbside composting has been the law of the land since October, but the vast majority of New Yorkers aren’t following the ...

The star of a press conference at the city dump Thursday afternoon was an unassuming green plastic bag that, in the ...

Education materials developed by the DSNY establish that food scarps and food-soiled paper should be set aside in compost bins instead of trash bags. In addition to food, leaf and yard waste can ...

A standard countertop compost bin can fit around a gallon of scraps ... like an XL version of a food-prep garbage bowl. But in a happy coincidence, the bin arrived around the same time that ...

Starting April 1, all food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard waste must be separated from the garbage and set out for compost in NYC.