After reaching one-million tons of diverted compost back in November, Mayor Lee finally got around celebrating the momentous occasion with the city's recycling program yesterday. As ABC7 reports, Mayor Mustache commemorated all those tons of discarded banana peels, egg shells and leftover Thai food by heading down to Alemany Farm to pick up his very own bucket of the stuff. more ›

We've always contended that while the whole composting/recycling thing is a noble and marvelous pursuit, we prefer our tiny apartment kitchens to be non-smelly and fruit-fly-free, and the whole composting thing (when we barely cook anyway and take trash out irregularly) becomes a minor source of torment. Furthermore, if and when the city decides to start issuing $100 - 1,000 fines to residents, building owners and businesses who fail to compost — and we remain skeptical that this is more than an idle threat, because are they really going to police our trash bags so closely? — we predict a major backlash, because the picking through our trash and pointing fingers at our failures starts to feel a little fascist, no? more ›

We've become more and more hippie-ish in our near eight years living in San Francisco. We've mostly dwelled in compost-practicing households here, where it was a convenient process and just as easy to do as tossing waste in the trash. We now live in a large apartment building with around 30 units with no current compost option, although a few of us tenants are interested in setting one up. more ›