The trash from private homes and small apartment buildings now must be put out for collection in bins with lids, the city says — preferably the official “NYC Bins” sold by the Sanitation ...

Instead, they are marked for deletion and stored in the Recycle Bin in case you need them back. The only caveat is that files in the Recycle Bin aren't kept forever. Depending on the drive ...

soiled paper products such as paper towels, tissues/napkins, food-soiled cardboard such as pizza boxes, sugar/flour/potato bags; compostable plastics; compostable cutlery; untreated wood scraps under ...