Last year, New York City gave out 92,000 dog licenses, but community surveys conducted by the city health department have suggested the actual number of canines is usually five times higher than this ...

NEW YORK-- When you hear the term "composting," food scraps likely come to mind, but one program is accepting another kind of waste. The hope is more dog owners will stoop down to pick up what their ...

A councillor is pushing for the composting of "unsustainable" amounts of dog waste following the approval of a raft of measures to tackle waste in a market town. Gill Thomas, member champion for ...

It has been a fun challenge over the past few years to learn how to reduce my waste through the several Rs of sustainability (refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle, repair and rot). Dog waste is ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Dogs (and their human companions) who visit Hillside Dog Park in Brooklyn Heights are helping to save the planet by recycling dog poop. It turns out that literally tons of pet feces ...

On a microscopic level, composting refers to a biological process where bacteria, fungi and even worms break down organic material to generate a product that looks like soil but is technically a soil ...

ITHACA — A group of upstate New York dog owners thinks it has a can-do plan to profitably compost the tons of dog doo left behind by the roughly 50,000 canines that use the city's pooch park each year ...