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the city found out a few weeks ago that it was keeping 70 percent of its disposable waste out of local landfills one of the main reasons the city keeps up the pressure to recycle The No. 1 export for the West Coast of the United States is scrap paper Another major innovation in the past decade was the development of infrastructure for turning food wastes into baggable compost that is used in California’s vineyards and the vast farms of the Central Valley The garbage from San Francisco’s 750,000 residents is picked up on the pay-as-you-throw principle — the more garbage bins you need, the higher your monthly fee
Mayor Gavin Newsom will soon be sending the city’s Board of Supervisors a proposal that would make the recycling of cans, bottles, paper, yard waste and food scraps mandatory instead of voluntary we can get to 75 percent |
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