This week, New York City’s war on rats starts a welcome new offensive with the mandatory organic food waste collection (also called curbside composting) for all New Yorkers’ homes. The rules to ...

New York City Council voted June 8 to adopt the Zero Waste Act, a collection of laws that aims to advance the city’s efforts to divert organic waste from landfills, fight climate change and create a ...

Two popular community composting locations are slated to reopen this weekend, nine months after funding cuts forced their closure alongside more than 50 other drop-off sites. New Yorkers can once ...

City Limits takes a multimedia look at how food waste is repurposed at the Department of Sanitation’s 33-acre composting facility in the Fresh Kills section of Staten Island. The site is part of New ...

When Christine Datz-Romero and her husband started the Lower East Side Ecology Center in 1987, where New Yorkers could drop off paper, metal, glass and plastic for recycling, they beat New York’s ...

Recycling rates around longtime existing requirements—which ask residents to separate paper, plastics, metal and glass from the rest of their trash—have failed to improve over the last decade. Getting ...

New Yorkers send a literal mountain of stuff — over 600,000 tons of material — to be recycled through curbside recycling every year. But that’s just about 17.5% of our total waste stream every year, ...