Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. A photo of a pizza box from Tuesday’s article about trash contamination in the compost at ...

Not composting your food scraps yet? You can now be fined for that. Starting April 1, New York residents must compost all household food and organic scraps in city-designated compost bins. Technically ...

Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That’s a problem because in that environment, organic waste is deprived of oxygen, which ...

Composting is environmentally friendly, cuts down rats’ food supply, slashes landfill expenses and reduces carbon emissions — in a perfect world. Which New York City will never be. It is so far from ...