Bins meant to hold dozens of large trash bags are part of New York City's latest defense against rats. Some residents are ...

Large residential buildings in West Harlem are now required to put trash in large bins on the street instead of in piles on ...

“We all know that you shouldn’t try to fit a square peg into a round hole, which is why we’re deploying special trash ... Central Park Conservancy set up a similar recycling bin in May ...

But when pizza boxes are forcibly jammed into park trash bins — or left on top of them — crust and cheese remnants can end up feeding the city’s persistent rat population and making public ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to an estimated 1,900 black ... chances for humans and bears to cross paths — and more trash luring bears into human communities.

The rats aren’t going to like this. Just in time for Labor Day weekend, NYC Parks announced the installation of square pizza box trash bins in parks across all five boroughs. The bins have ...