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Not composting your food scraps yet? You can now be fined for that. Starting April 1, New York residents must compost all household food and organic scraps in city-designated compost bins. Technically ...

Failure to compost comes with a fine in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York City. On his first day in office, Mamdani’s administration quietly began fining New Yorkers for not separating their organic ...

Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That’s a problem because in that environment, organic waste is deprived of oxygen, which ...