Assembly Member Chantel Jackson on environmental protection. Why the Bronx should support the Affordable Waste Reduction Act.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New York City Sanitation Department rear-loading truck pauses on a Brooklyn street on Oct. 20, 2025. (Jacob Wallace/Waste Dive) ...

West Harlem has become the first neighborhood in New York City—and the first in North America, according to Mayor Eric Adams—to containerize 100 percent of its trash. The achievement follows the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Watermelon rinds, greasy pizza boxes, and yard trimmings. In many cities, these items would head straight to a landfill. But in New York, they are the raw ingredients for ...

This week, New York City is hosting over 900 events dedicated to creating bold solutions to the climate crisis. Across all five boroughs, business leaders, politicians, climate activists, scientists ...

For years, New York has talked about Extended Producer Responsibility legislation to address this crisis. As an organization that is committed to leveraging innovation to protect our environment, the ...

NEW YORK -- In 2015, the New York City government announced a plan to eliminate the need to ship the city's waste to landfills out of the city limits. This plan will ideally reduce the city's waste ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Dec. 3, 2025 — The Center for Sustainable Materials Management (CSMM) at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) and the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI) are ...

While popular, single-use vaping devices like the one pictured here contain lithium-ion batteries and chemical residues that make them hazardous to dispose of in standard trash or recycling bins. New ...