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News

City expands compost program with smaller bin option as collection totals reach record high

By Czarinna Andres

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News

NYC suspends composting fines just weeks after rollout, citing public pushback

By Colum Motherway

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Astoria Post

Free compost site opens in Astoria as DSNY responds to increased demand

Common sense caucus on composting regulations

Politics

Common Sense Caucus pushes back on NYC’s mandatory composting law, call for voluntary participation

By Colum Motherway

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News

Composting crackdown begins in NYC April 1st with $25 fines for violations

By Colum Motherway

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Bronx Times

NYC dramatically raises fines to curb illegal dumping in parks

News

Trials and tribulations of trash: New bin law aims for cleaner streets but faces resistance and delays

By Colum Motherway and Athena Dawson

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Politics

Addabbo secures security cameras and increased patrols to boost Richmond Hill safety

By Colum Motherway

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Port Authority dedicates LaGuardia Career Center to retired Assembly Member Jeffrion Aubry

By Bill Parry

A family trudges through the snowstorm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Feb. 7, 2021.

AMNY

White Christmas: NYC sees light snowfall on Christmas Eve as Sanitation Department works to keep streets clear

Jessica Tisch officially became the 48th police commissioner in NYPD history on Monday, as Mayor Eric Adams swore in the second woman ever to hold the post during a ceremony at One Police Plaza.

AMNY

Jessica Tisch sworn in as second-ever female New York police commissioner

Member of Sanitation Department

AMNY

New mandatory garbage rule to begin in NYC Tuesday: Here’s what you need to know

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Flushing

Council Member Ung teams up with DSNY and NYPD to tackle unlicensed vending in Flushing

By Czarinna Andres

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Jamaica

Queens DSNY worker busted for allegedly filling his pool with water from a fire hydrant: NYPD

By Bill Parry

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AMNY

Rules requiring all NYC businesses to place refuse in secure containers take effect

Mayor Adams announces budget cutback reversals for trash program

AMNY

More budget backtracks: Mayor Adams reverses cuts to NYC litter baskets, Parks work program

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AMNY

Fines begin for food-related business that fail to put trash in containers

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AMNY

War against rats: New city rules will require ‘food-related’ and chain businesses to put trash in containers

Waste Garbage

AMNY

New garbage rules to go into effect April 1 as city looks to address rat problem

RHBA Meeting

Residents express concerns regarding city’s new trash pickup rules, cleanliness along Jamaica Avenue

By Carlotta Mohamed

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PoliticsNY

City Council moves to put the kibosh on rodents with passage of ‘Rat Action Plan’

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AMNY

Queens curbside organics pilot diverts 1 million pounds of waste in just two weeks

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PoliticsNY

Adams proposes union-backed plan to move back garbage set out times

Composting bin on the street.

News

Curbside composting program leads discussion during Queens Community Board 2 meeting

By Rebecca Roche

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