When Christine Datz-Romero and her husband started the Lower East Side Ecology Center in 1987, where New Yorkers could drop off paper, metal, glass and plastic for recycling, they beat New York’s ...

LOWER MERION – Lower Merion officials announced this week which neighborhoods can participate in a new Pilot Curbside Composting Program. The temporary initiative, which was recently passed by the ...

New York’s quest to implement the largest composting program in the U.S. takes a big step forward this week by requiring all residential buildings in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island to separate ...

Food scraps in a separate bin from a waste bin. It could be turned into compost to divert methane from landfills. Food scraps in a separate bin from a waste bin. It could be turned into compost to ...

Bristol and Barrington, Rhode Island, are launching the state's first municipal curbside composting programs. The two-year pilot program, starting Sept. 18, aims to reduce landfill waste and lower ...

The green bins for food scraps that line farmers markets may be curbed permanently. GrowNYC, the environmental nonprofit contracted by the city to run its composting program at the popular markets, ...

Curbside collection of yard waste, food scraps and food-soiled paper will begin this Sunday in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island as part of an expansion of a successful program that started in ...