To avoid fine, here’s when NYC residents must put compost out for pickup
New York City residents who don’t abide by the city’s compost rules will be fined beginning on Tuesday, April 1. All New ...
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Should you even bother throwing plastic in the recycling bin?
Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers — but plastic is trash and trying to recycle it is futile, Greenpeace said in a bombshell October 2022 report.
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Everyone in NYC has to compost. Here's how to follow the rules and avoid tickets.
New Yorkers are required to compost all their organic waste under a sanitation department rule that went into effect back in ...
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Ocean trash is building up. This artist reveals what’s out there.
Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline. His photographs reveal the variety of water-borne trash. Rosenthal chose oddly shaped plastic objects for this composition.
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We Made Plastic. We Depend on It. Now We’re Drowning in It.
They weren’t. It was all trash—pieces of broken shipping containers, abandoned fishing gear, and of course, plastic shopping bags. Kathleen Dohan, a scientist and the president of Earth and ...