A controversial plan to confine private garbage trucks to specific zones—a measure intended to improve traffic safety—has been suspended by the Department of Sanitation due to the pandemic. In a ...

City-assigned trash haulers are now picking up refuse from businesses in Central Queens, a milestone in New York’s yearslong quest to tame its chaotic and unsafe private waste industry. As of Thursday ...

As New York City slowly implements a long-delayed reform of the private waste hauling industry, pedestrians and workers keep getting injured or killed at an alarming rate, according to a new report.

NEW YORK — New York City's Department of Sanitation has begun what it calls a monumental overhaul of the city's commercial waste industry. The new reforms promise to modernize inefficient systems, and ...

Carters earned $16.5 million during the first six months of a pilot zone in Queens. Meanwhile, the industry is pushing back ...

If you throw an old jack-o’-lantern into the trash at your apartment, the New York City Department of Sanitation picks it up. But if a commercial business tosses a pumpkin, they’ve got to hire a ...