Bag The Bugs or Pay The Price
If you plan to discard a mattress this year, you'll need to encase it in a plastic bag or risk getting a hefty ticket.The rule from the Department of Sanitation is a move to stop the spread of a pest...
View ArticleLook | Melting Snow Reveals New Yorkers' Dirty Secrets
Clambering over a black and grey snow bank, Almando Martinez's foot sunk into crunchy ice. The 50-year-old plumber looked down and groaned. “It’s disgusting,” he said. “It’s the dirtiest I’ve ever...
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MAP: Most Abandoned Bikes Won't Be Removed
Click around the map above to see the photos of the bikes and the latest updates on their status. You can update the map yourself, so please let us know if one of these gets removed, or tagged.Listen...
View ArticleComposting In City Schools Catches On
A handful of public schools have been so successful in slashing the amount of cafeteria garbage they created through composting that the program is being expanded by the Bloomberg administration.The...
View ArticleExplaining NYC's Composting Plan
The Bloomberg administration is considering expanding its voluntary food-scrap recycling plan -- and possibly making composting mandatory in the same way plastic recycling currently is. Cas Holloway,...
View ArticleSandy Minute-by-Minute: 7 PM, From Fine Art to Pure Garbage
The impact of Sandy is still being felt by thousands of people, a year later. The Department of Sanitation estimates it collected about 434,740 tons of storm debris citywide. Some of that soggy garbage...
View ArticleSome Citi Bike Commuters Laugh in the Face of Snow
This morning's wet snow has made the morning commute more of a slog than usual. But that hasn't stopped some New Yorkers from continuing to commute using the city's bike share program.There were 4,185...
View ArticleYou Can't Get There From Here — Not on Unshoveled Sidewalks
New York is a city of walkers, but with several days of snow and freezing rain, the walking isn't easy.On West Houston Street, Lou, who declined to give her last name because her children told her not...
View ArticleSomeone's Got To Shovel It
The city deployed more than a thousand emergency snow laborers across the five boroughs on Tuesday to shovel crosswalks and bus stops.Larry Troy, a supervisor with the Department of Sanitation, said...
View ArticleRotten Luck: NYC's Pilot Compost Program in Trouble, with Shutdown of...
New York City's fledgling composting program has hit a major snag.The nearly two-year-old pilot project takes food scraps from about a dozen neighborhoods and 400 schools as part of an effort to reduce...
View ArticleThis City Councilman Wants to Charge For Un-Recycled Trash
Smaller cities across the country have been doing it for years: forcing residents to buy special garbage bags to set out on their curbs, and then taking the profits from the bags to pay for the...
View ArticleDe Blasio Warns of Historic Blizzard
Mayor de Blasio said the city could be in for a record snowstorm, with snow accumulation hitting up to three feet, and wind gusts topping 35 miles an hour."My message to all New Yorkers is prepare for...
View ArticleDe Blasio, Sanitation Union Reach Contract Agreement
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city has reached a tentative contract agreement with a union that represents more than 6,000 sanitation workers.The mayor said it's a "very promising moment...
View ArticleLatest on Russia Investigations; Where's Hillary?; NYC Turns Food Waste into...
Coming up on today's show:Here on the Brian Lehrer Show, we'll follow the fast-developing Russia investigation news on every week day in June.As Hillary Clinton returns to public life, Rebecca...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Tick Talk on Lyme Disease, NYC Makes Black Gold,...
In case you missed them, hear three of our favorite segments from the week:Tick Talk: How To Protect Yourself From Lyme (First) | NYC Turns Food Waste Into Black Gold (Starts 15:25) | Hillary Clinton...
View ArticleBrilliant Minds of Trash and Sewage
New York City generates 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater every day. 16 million pounds of trash. Eight million pounds of recyclables. Think of the awesome engineering and effort behind making all of...
View ArticleNew York City Will Restart Curbside Composting, But Critics Say It's A Missed...
New York City is reviving its composting program, after suspending it last year. But environmental advocates say in some ways, it's a step back. Neighborhoods that had curbside compost service before...
View ArticleRep. Frank Pallone; Congress COVID Funding; NYC's Trash Problems; Reacting to...
Coming up on today's show: U.S. Representative Frank Pallone (D NJ 6th), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, talks about gas prices and Ukraine, making daylight saving time permanent, and...
View ArticleThe History of NYC's Trash Problem
Only 10 percent of New York City's trash waiting for pickup is stored in containers, the rest sits in trashbags piled on the street. Christopher Robbins, contributor to Streetsblog and Clare Miflin,...
View ArticleAs giant trash bins come to NYC, will the city’s garbage heaps become a thing...
Four container bins sitting at the corner of West 41st Street and 7th Avenue in Times Square may look simple, but they have a lofty purpose: Showing New Yorkers how the city streets could become...
View ArticleNYC Tries a New Tactic in the Battle Against Rats
Trash bags piled up on city sidewalks are "an all-you-can-eat buffet for rats," according to Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation. She talks about a plan to change...
View ArticleChanges Coming to NYC Trash Collection
The city is making two major changes to trash collection: expanding composting and changing when garbage can be left on the street before pickup. Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the New York City...
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