Food waste composting in the D.C. region is big business. While the District only recently rolled out a curbside composting program, most of the surrounding suburbs have been tackling the issue for ...

Emptying a Smart Bin takes about 45 seconds. One sanitation worker unlocks the ruddy orange container with a swipe of his hand, using a keycard tucked into his glove. A door at the front of the bin ...

New York City has been big on bins lately. The Department of Sanitation piloted locked communal receptacles in Brooklyn and Manhattan and is paying McKinsey $4 million to study how the city might ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One metro non-profit aims to make composting and recycling easier. KC Can Compost partnered with Kansas City, Missouri leaders on Thursday, introducing new composting smart cans.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New smart compost bins are online at 10 Staten Island locations as part of an overall city plan to clean up city streets and reduce its rat problem, according to a Department of ...

Last week, pedestrians on Patchen Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant may have noticed a welcome addition to some street corners: bright orange “Smart Compost” bins for composting while out and about.

The New York City Department of Sanitation’s new “smart bins” are helping New Yorkers keep energy costs low, help the environment and fight the city’s rat problem through composition. According to ...

On a walk down Patchen Avenue late last week, we noticed a welcome addition to some street corners: the city’s bright orange Smart Compost bins for composting. According to the map on the NYC Compost ...