Yesterday, Open House New York concluded its year-long series, Getting to Zero exploring New York City’s waste management system. Getting to Zero: Zero Waste Guidelines revealed to its audience that ...

New York City is an island of imported goods. The city’s main export, though, is trash. The city’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY) heaves more than 12,000 tons of waste each day; private haulers are ...

Every day, 24,000 tons of waste leaves New York City. A third of it is traditional recycling material—metal, plastic, glass, cardboard and paper—roughly half of which gets recycled. Another third is ...

Now that summer has faded away so too has the persistent stench of garbage piled on sidewalks and left out in the sun in major cities across the country. But trash itself isn’t going anywhere.

New York City is not exactly a city that takes pride in its waste treatment. Currently the city’s waste ends up mostly in landfills and incinerators. Organizers of Designing Waste: Strategies for a ...

With expanding urban populations and evolving consumption patterns, cities are faced with challenges pertaining to waste management. Traditional approaches centered on collection and disposal ...