New York City is implementing a new mandatory composting program that will transform how its residents approach trash disposal. The Big Apple is rolling out a new residential composting system that ...

Curbside composting has technically been mandatory in New York City since April 2025, but after being in effect for less than three weeks, the Adams administration and DSNY paused fines. Then Mayor ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — With Mayor Zohran Mamdani resuming enforcement of fines to New Yorkers who fail to separate food scraps for composting, local officials are calling for more outreach instead of ...

A tenant dug through the trash of his Queens apartment building on a recent Tuesday afternoon, doing a dirty task that his neighbors couldn’t be bothered to do themselves: separating garbage from ...