The new "Empire Bins" are designed to be emptied with modern garbage trucks, and have locks that can only be opened with a ...

These space invaders are trash. The city has installed a bunch of anti-rat trash bins outside upper Manhattan schools – but ...

In today's trash news: The New York City Department of Sanitation just installed a number of new "Empire Bins" in Harlem, high-tech on-street containers that are meant to be shared by area residents ...

Members of the New York City Council are poised to consider two measures on Tuesday that take aim at fraud in the immigration ...

In addition to wasting people’s time, it attracts rats to compost facilities, puts more fuel-burning trucks ... When New York launched its curbside recycling program in the 1990s, it was justified by ...

The installation process for 1,000 large high-tech trash bins, which would get those massive piles of black plastic trash ...

Those compost projects were largely the victim of budget cuts during Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, but he later set the stage for the current program with a 2013 initiative that included ...

Critics claim a rushed awareness campaign and the threat of $300 fines are sending the wrong message to tenants and landlords ...

The City Council’s Common Sense Caucus on Thursday introduced a bill that would reverse mandatory composting just one week after the new rules went into effect — and thousands of disciplinary fines ...

A sweet friendship between a 9-year-old boy and a sanitation worker came to an emotional end in Florida. Noah Carrigan has always been fascinated by trucks. So, when the garbage truck came by his ...

Inside Recology’s garbage collection hub for San Francisco, located in nearby Brisbane, is a somewhat secret museum devoted ...