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Animal rights advocates rally outside of City Hall in favor of a bill to prevent birds being exposed to rat poison.

animals

Flaco’s Law: With Bird Bill, City Council Pushes Plan B for Rat Control to Protect Feathered Friends

by Katie Honan April 11, 2024, 3:57 p.m.April 11, 2024, 4:56 p.m.

Rodenticide, building lights and glass windows are among the biggest threats for owls, hawks and falcons in New York.

Waste Management

Own a Home? You’ll Have to Buy Trash Bins From This One Company, Says Sanitation

by Gabriel Poblete and Katie Honan April 9, 2024, 9:27 p.m.April 9, 2024, 9:27 p.m.

City Department of Sanitation is about to enter an exclusive 10-year contract with a North Carolina firm to sell disposal containers that must be used by all residences with fewer than 10 apartments.

Pedestrians walk by a giant pile of recycling in the Financial District.

Waste Management

New Yorkers Are Recycling Less, Sanitation Study Finds

by Samantha Maldonado April 4, 2024, 5:33 p.m.April 4, 2024, 5:33 p.m.

Just under half of paper and cardboard that could be recycled is, and about 41% of glass, metal and plastic, according to the study.

Brooklyn, Housing, Parks, Waste Management

Loud Loo? Park Dwellers Want City to Pay for Quieter Public Bathroom

by Katie Honan Sept. 11, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Sept. 8, 2023, 4:49 p.m.

A couple that lives in a condo in Brooklyn Bridge Park say toilet sounds are keeping them up at night. Park officials are fighting their lawsuit while looking for solutions.

How to New York

How to Compost Yard Waste Curbside in New York

by Asar John June 30, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Oct. 11, 2023, 12:56 p.m.

Garbage rules are changing June 30 for people in Queens, with Brooklyn following quickly behind. Here’s what to know about separating your grass clippings from your regular trash.

Environment

As City Gears Up to Enforce Food Waste Law Again, Businesses Wonder What to Do

by Samantha Maldonado July 11, 2022, 6:11 p.m.July 11, 2022, 6:12 p.m.

On July 31, the Sanitation Department will begin issuing fines between $250 and $1,000 for establishments that don’t separate and process their organic waste, officials say.

City Hall

Checking Bill de Blasio’s Big Promises: THE CITY’s Scorecard on Eight Years of Ambitious Pledges

by THE CITY Dec. 20, 2021, 9:29 p.m.Dec. 20, 2021, 9:33 p.m.

From affordable housing to waste reduction to high-paid jobs to commercial rent control, we look at where the results stand on some of the outgoing mayor’s major plans touted in annual State of the City and Earth Day addresses.

Environment

Trash Transfer Station Slimdown for Overwhelmed Neighborhoods Get Appeals Court OK

by Gabriel Sandoval Dec. 17, 2020, 9:39 p.m.Dec. 17, 2020, 9:39 p.m.

Judges say City Council had a clean case to sharply reduce tons of garbage processed in the four districts dealing with most of the city’s commercial waste heaps.

Bill de Blasio, Brooklyn, Department of Sanitation, Life, Manhattan, Parks, Waste Management

Trash-Talking New Yorkers Come Together to Clean Up NYC, Litter-ally

by Rachel Holliday Smith Sept. 28, 2020, 8:24 p.m.Sept. 28, 2020, 8:24 p.m.

Gregory Baggett never thought he’d be on trash duty. But lately, in the COVID-19 era, he’s found himself among New Yorkers rolling up their sleeves — and rolling out the trash bins. A Harlemite since 1980, he knows his block and his neighbors well. So when litter started piling up this summer, he took note, […]

Waste Management

Complaints of Missed Trash Pickups Surge as Garbage Piles Up at Home

by Suhail Bhat Sept. 27, 2020, 8:08 p.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 7:41 a.m.

Sanitation officials say they’re keeping pace with mounting waste produced by households in Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island and upper Manhattan despite staff cuts.

Waste Management

Flaco’s Law: With Bird Bill, City Council Pushes Plan B for Rat Control to Protect Feathered Friends

Own a Home? You’ll Have to Buy Trash Bins From This One Company, Says Sanitation

New Yorkers Are Recycling Less, Sanitation Study Finds

Loud Loo? Park Dwellers Want City to Pay for Quieter Public Bathroom

How to Compost Yard Waste Curbside in New York

As City Gears Up to Enforce Food Waste Law Again, Businesses Wonder What to Do

Checking Bill de Blasio’s Big Promises: THE CITY’s Scorecard on Eight Years of Ambitious Pledges

Trash Transfer Station Slimdown for Overwhelmed Neighborhoods Get Appeals Court OK

Trash-Talking New Yorkers Come Together to Clean Up NYC, Litter-ally

Complaints of Missed Trash Pickups Surge as Garbage Piles Up at Home

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