Renee Anderson is a digital producer at CBS New York, where she covers breaking news and other local stories. Before joining the team in 2016, Renee worked at WMUR-TV. Zinnia Maldonado joins the CBS ...

Weeks after the New York City Sanitation Department started enforcing new composting rules, officials say they are pausing some of the fines. Many New Yorkers have complained that figuring out how to ...

The countdown to compost is on in New York City. Starting April 1, all food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard waste must be separated from the garbage and set out for composting. The new rules took ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – The city has issued hundreds of daily summonses to New Yorkers who aren’t complying with new composting rules, according to the Department of Sanitation. The new rules went ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City began its mandatory compost program around the five boroughs in October, but Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has yet to begin enforcement. A DSNY spokesperson said ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – The grace period is over, and anyone found not composting in New York City will be forced to pay a fine, but what exactly are we expected to compost? Many food scraps and yard waste ...

NEW YORK CITY (WCBS/WLNY) — Just weeks after New York City started enforcing its new compost rules, officials say they are pausing some of the fines. Mayor Eric Adams’ office said in a statement that ...

A record-breaking 3.8 million pounds of compost was collected in the second week of a new recycling mandate — a number so overwhelming that the city is opening a new site dedicated to the “black gold.