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“Nobody would ever look through it,” 16-year-old Skylar Aaron said of the “giant mountain” of unclaimed belongings at Stuyvesant High School’s lost and found. So far, she and classmate Shayna…

BySunny Nagpaul 0Comments

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Sep 2026

Climate and Environment Featured Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Profiles

NYCHA’s ‘Furniture Queen’ Rehomed Nearly 500,000 Pounds of Thrifted Finds Without a Warehouse. She Just Won $200K.

“There’s no money exchanged,” said 39-year-old Regina Carter, who sources furniture and home goods otherwise destined for a landfill, and donates them to fellow New Yorkers. “We’re just placing things…

BySunny Nagpaul 1Comment

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Aug 2026

Climate and Environment Featured Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Nearly a Third of NYC’s Trash Gets Incinerated Elsewhere. What Would It Take to Stop The Practice?

Philadelphia’s City Council is debating a bill that would ban the City of Brotherly Love from exporting its trash for incineration, citing pollution and impact on human health. Should New…

ByBenjamin Land 0Comments

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Feb 2026

Climate and Environment Featured Government Health Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Resources

Got a Green Idea for NYCHA? This Grant Could Help Fund It

Applications are now open for the 2026 NYCHA Resident Climate Action Grant Program, which funds sustainability projects in the city’s public housing developments. Past winners scored money for community gardens,…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Apr 2025

Climate and Environment Economy Featured Government Labor Profiles

‘The Bottle Bill Is Just the Beginning’: How Canners Can Make a Cleaner, Better City

Rixaru X, who has worked collecting cans and bottles off city streets for the last six years, spoke to City Limits about the challenges New York City canners face and…

ByMariana Simões 2Comments

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Jun 2024

Climate and Environment Government

Bill Seeks to Boost NYC’s Composting Capacity With More Borough-Based Sites

Most of the food scraps and yard waste collected by the city isn’t getting composted. Instead, it’s being turned into fuel to heat people’s homes—and that’s not actually great for…

ByMariana Simões 15Comments

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Apr 2024

Climate and Environment Government Opinion

Opinion: NY State Legislature Must Act to Curb the Perils of Plastic

“To ensure a livable planet for future generations, reducing plastic from the outset is the best way to gain control of how much we’re polluting our air, land, waters, and…

ByHarvey Epstein

ByJane Selden

ByVictoria Augustine 1Comment

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Mar 2024

Climate and Environment Government In Depth Investigations

Chemical Industry Amps Up Lobbying to Block New York’s Waste Reduction Bill

As a bill that aims to drastically cut the use of plastic packaging gains momentum in Albany, the chemical industry has increased spending to stop it, pouring hundreds of thousands…

ByMariana Simões 1Comment

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Sep 2023

Climate and Environment

Can We Dig Our Way Out of the Waste Crisis?

“Waste has always been inflicted upon the margins,” said Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of the new book “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future.”…

ByDanielle Renwick, Nexus Media News 0Comments

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Jun 2023

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness Politics Transportation

NYC Makes it Mandatory for Residential Buildings to Recycle Food Waste

The City Council on Thursday passed a “groundbreaking” legislative package that forces the city to divert food-based garbage away from landfills and reuse it instead for environmentally friendly purposes like…

ByMariana Simões 8Comments

The Students Mining NYC Public Schools’ Lost-and-Found Collections for New Yorkers in Need