Residents will be able to pick up free 40-pound bags of compost from 77-28 19th Avenue in Astoria. Acting Sanitation ...

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

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

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 ...

Since then, the New York City Department of Sanitation has issued nearly 30,000 warnings for not composting, according to DSNY Deputy Commissioner Joshua Goodman. Starting April 1, those warnings will ...

Starting this week, the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has begun enforcing new composting regulations ...

Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images At a preliminary budget hearing last month, DSNY said it has sent out citywide mailers about the composting fines; the department is also meeting with every ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – 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 rules ...