In a city that’s long been lauded for innovation, our trash-handling practices have been stubbornly antiquated, rising just a step above tossing garbage out a window to have it picked up by passing ...

An uptown Manhattan community board district is set to become the first in the city where trash containerization will be universally mandated under a plan rolled out by Mayor Adams on Thursday. Under ...

It turns out one neat trick can tackle the twin, unchecked plagues of New York City: cars and rats. A new Department of Sanitation report out on Wednesday finds that the city could move 89 percent of ...

According to IVGID, the lowest rate increase is for those who have a bear shed (the brown containers commonly referred to as bear boxes) because those receptacles are the best when it comes to ...

New York City’s business improvement districts are pushing back against a new policy by the Sanitation Department that will fine them for leaving trash bags on the sidewalk — a rule that BID leaders ...

It was the evening before trash day when I learned that rats get the zoomies, a phenomenon I previously only associated with dogs who suddenly run around in circles to express joy. The three or four ...

A month after the launch of the contentious pilot program to containerize trash for larger residential buildings in District 7, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Department of Sanitation Commissioner ...

The city’s plan to combat rats may gnaw at drivers. A program to curb the Big Apple’s booming rat population with new trash containers could eliminate 150,000 parking spots — more than the city’s ...

New sanitation department rules could mean big fines for nonprofit groups that clean up numerous New York City blocks, city councilmembers write in a new letter. Every day, workers for business ...

NEW YORK-- A new plan to get piles of trash off the streets of the city and cut down on rats was unveiled Wednesday. But it comes with a price some New Yorkers may not want to pay. The streets of ...