This week, New York City’s war on rats starts a welcome new offensive with the mandatory organic food waste collection (also called curbside composting) for all New Yorkers’ homes. The rules to ...

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New York, home to nearly as many rats as people, has been fighting the rodent incursion for centuries. The saying goes that Kansas City in August is hotter than two rats in a wool sock, but it turns ...

One-third of all food in America is wasted leads to billions of dollars lost each year, according to a new Gallup survey on the state of food waste in America. Until now, researchers have known little ...

Liverpool ECHO readers are unsurprised to hear concerns are growing in the city over a “rat feeding frenzy” after rodents were spotted gnawing through residents’ bins in one part of the city. Local ...

Here’s a Google Map that shows where evidence of rats was identified in official reports by inspectors for all of 2014 and up to January 20, 2015. Click over to the map to also see the more than 7,700 ...

Residents are scared to use forthcoming food waste collections because of worries over rats, a council committee has heard. A new law means councils have to collect food waste from households weekly ...

The current budget for the council’s street cleaning and waste collection contractor is around £16m a year. This is the equivalent of around 0.003% of the council’s budget whereas the council’s adult ...