The New York City Council introduced a bill Thursday to make composting voluntary after some backlash from angry New Yorkers, ...

The city has increased processing capacity to prepare for the shift. It issued tens of thousands of warnings before enforcement began on April 1, and has already issued nearly 2,000 summons for ...

The retired Queens resident knew that effective April 1, the citywide program of separating compostable organic material from ...

The city issued 1,885 violations related to New York City’s new composting rules in the first week of enforcement, according ...

New Yorkers can now get fined for not separating their food scraps. Some critics say that's not the right approach.

City officials said Tuesday that they want to quell any rumors or conspiracy theories around the Department of Sanitation’s curbside composting program. Enforcement of the five-borough curbside ...

New York City has issued almost 2,000 tickets to alleged violators during the first week of composting enforcement. The rule has been in effect since October. However, on April 1, the sanitation ...

The Common Sense Caucus aims to introduce legislation making the recently implemented mandatory household composting program ...

The city has issued hundreds of daily summonses to New Yorkers who aren’t complying with new composting rules, according to the Department of Sanitation. The new ...