CURRENT NEWS OF INTEREST:
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- School in the Square eliminates single-use disposables with new partnership – November 8, 2022
- Students from Red Hook create Plastic Free Lunch Day, schools participate nationwide – November 2, 2022
- The Warehouses of Plastic Behind TerraCycle’s Recycling Dream – October 27, 2022
- Queens Composting Overtakes Old Opt-in Program, But Still Has a Long Way to Go – October 24, 2022
- New nonprofit Just Zero taking a national approach to zero waste and closing disposal sites – October 18, 2022
- Mayor Adams, Sanitation Commissioner Tisch Announce Drastically Reduced Hours Trash Will sit on NYC Streets – October 17, 2022
- Food Waste Solutions – October 14, 2022
- New York City kicks off borough-wide curbside composting for the first time – October 9, 2022
- Report: Eliminating waste is a climate solution – October 4, 2022
- Queens composting has arrived. Here’s what you need to know – September 30, 2022
- 10 Facts You Should Know About NYC’s Composting Efforts – Augusts 15, 2022
- Composting in NYC is hard. Cyclists and a pug named Rocky are helping. – August 10, 2022
- New York City rolling out ‘largest curbside composting program in the nation’ with Queens expansion – August 9, 2022
- Mayor Adams Announces NYC to Soon be Home to Largest Composting Program in Nation, Providing Every Household in Queens With Weekly Curbside Composting – August 8, 2022
Past News:
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- Maryland General Assembly mandates organics diversion – April 14, 2021
- DSNY announces new Precision Cleaning Initiative – March 30, 2021
- Dozens of companies respond to RFP process for commercial waste overhaul – March 19, 2021
- NYC constituents push back against cuts to composting – May 21, 2020
- Proposed legislation to bring recycling and compost centers to every community district – May 17, 2020
- Reversing plastic bag bans amid COVID-19. Why it’s the wrong approach. – March 17, 2020
- Is NYC Ready for the Green New Deal – June 20, 2019
- Good Stuff @ South Street Seaport – May 31 – June 28, 2019
- DSNY NYCxReuse Conference – June 21-22 2019
- DSNY Food Waste Fair – May 23, 2019
- National Cultivating Compost Forum in NYC – May 11-14 2019
- BSWAB Reimagine Organic Waste: A Community Conversation – April 9, 2019
- NYSDEC Solid Waste Planning Meetings – March 2019 Various Dates, Locations
- Commercial Waste Zones EIS Public Hearings – March 11, and 14, 2019
- Bag It NYC and RiverKeeper support an effort to encourage NYS Assemblymember Carl Heastie to pass the BYOBag Act by April 1. Read more here and here.
- Zero-emission buses are coming to the MTA. Should zero-emission sanitation trucks follow? Learn more about the buses.
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