[EQAB-list] San Francisco is MANDATING separation of recyclables and compostables

[Pat Imperato]

Composting is the next frontier.? I'd like to see us start agressively supporting back yard composting (the right way).? Fred has an impressive composting-vermiculture program going at his house and the end-product is fantastic.? You should see my tomoto plants after one-week of using it as fertilizer - of course the rain helped as well.

With all the food chains in town perhaps we could feel them out about in-vessel composting to help save on costs and even provide a saleable product.


Pat Imperato
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Oak Ridge, TN 37830

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Subject: Re: [EQAB-list] San Francisco is MANDATING separation of recyclables and compostables



The City of Guelph, Ontario (near Toronto) has a similar tricolor system, but in plastic bags, not rolling bins. They are Clear - Blue - Green.?
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Green is for anything compostable - paper, leaves, food scraps, etc.?
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Blue is for all other recyclables, single-stream like we have now.?
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Clear is for true garbage, but visual inspection is easy while contents remain sealed. If the haulers spot a aluminum can or something like that in the clear bag, they simply don't pick it up.?
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Bags are a problem where you have a lot of varmints, but giant rolling bins are problematic in urban settings, especially expensive space-constrained cities like SanFran.?
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I'm not down with the draconian busybodies out in 'Frisco, and I don't think your average Tennessean would tolerate it. I note S.F. has 72% diversion already - *most* impressive. But it also shows how much progresively harder than Nth degree of recycling is. One must always keep entropy in mind as it relates to that old rule about waste:?
"You can't get anything clean without getting something else dirty;?
however, you can get a lot of things dirty without getting anything clean."?
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--Robert G Kennedy III, PE?
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Quoting "Ellen Smith <smithellen at comcast.net>" <smithellen at comcast.net>:?
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> Interesting contrast with the situation here -- but likely to be in > our future, too.?
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> The New York Times?
> June 11, 2009 5:14 AM?
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> US: San Francisco to Toughen a Strict Recycling Law By MALIA WOLLAN In a?
> bid to send zero waste to landfills by 2020, the city has passed new?
> recycling and composting requirements.?
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> Full Story:?
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11recycle.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y?
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