Businesses send 600,000 pounds of food waste to the Franklin County landfill every day. New composting programs are aimed at ...

Do you care about keeping stinky food scraps out of landfills ... and some people would rather be dead than look at decomposing organic waste. All of those are fine reasons to do passive ...

When you toss a soda can, a banana peel or a pizza box in your residential recycling or compost bins, where does it actually go? It could end up in a foundry in Oregon, or a local farm, or, if placed ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York City is pumping the brakes on enforcement of its new mandatory composting program, ...

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

Starting this week, the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has begun enforcing new composting regulations requiring residents to separate their organic waste ...

Is there enough organic waste to send to an anaerobic digester facility, where organic matter is turned into fuel? Image Ms. Billings inspected for food waste. At Port Tavern, the trickiest ...

The compost must be put in its own bin and placed at the curb on regular recycling days for pickup. New Yorkers can line the bin with a clear plastic bag. New Yorkers can purchase a 21-gallon official ...