In a city that’s long been lauded for innovation, our trash-handling practices have been stubbornly antiquated, rising just a step above tossing garbage out a window to have it picked up by passing ...

It turns out one neat trick can tackle the twin, unchecked plagues of New York City: cars and rats. A new Department of Sanitation report out on Wednesday finds that the city could move 89 percent of ...

An uptown Manhattan community board district is set to become the first in the city where trash containerization will be universally mandated under a plan rolled out by Mayor Adams on Thursday. Under ...

New York City’s business improvement districts are pushing back against a new policy by the Sanitation Department that will fine them for leaving trash bags on the sidewalk — a rule that BID leaders ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced in mid-April that trash containerization would be implemented in six new districts across New York City after the success of a pilot program in West Harlem. The city is ...

A month after the launch of the contentious pilot program to containerize trash for larger residential buildings in District 7, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Department of Sanitation Commissioner ...

Containerization, which has been embraced by global cities like Barcelona and Buenos Aires, could force New York to eliminate 150,000 parking spots. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons New York City, where ...

The sight of big black trash bags on the sidewalk will soon be a thing of the past. "I feel like on every street, you'll see some kind of trash on the ground," said Belmont resident Karen Castillo.