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 ...

Members of Unite, the union representing garbage truck workers, walked off the job March 11 over ... threads to stories from ...

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 ...

Members of Unite, the union representing garbage truck workers, walked off the job ... wire services such as the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post or Bloomberg News.

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

I don’t see it,” Jessica Tisch says. It is already a complicated life overhauling the Police Department, working for Eric ...

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 ...

The city has trucks that hold compost on one side and regular trash on ... the Sanitation Department is working with other processing sites in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, so as not ...