SF News Sunday Links: PG&E Outage Leaves 3,600 Without Power in Outer Richmond/Seacliff Oakland will begin issuing real citations from its speed cameras Monday instead of warnings; an SF tech worker named Alysa Liu had her Instagram account suspended for being an imposter; and 3,600 PG&E customers in the Outer Richmond/Seacliff lost power Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment F1 Event Draws 50,000 to Marina, Leads to Property Damage, Public Urination Complaints San Francisco’s Marina Boulevard was turned into a demo racetrack Saturday as a Formula 1 car and other vehicles raced along the waterfront for a brief eight-tenths-of-a-mile stretch, drawing around 50,000 spectators who reportedly trashed the Marina District on their way out.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: 124-Year-Old Light Bulb, UC Davis’ Cheeto the Cat, and ‘Trash Falcons’ Art Exhibit This week: Hip-hop at Yoshi’s, coastal trails, national park sweethearts, and a Muni beer crawl. Plus, turning Lake Merritt trash into art, repairing bikes for kids, a light bulb that never goes out, and the big cat on campus.
SF News Public Works Deflects From Overflowing City Trash Can Complaints With Announcement of $12,000 ’Slim Silhouette’ Relaunch When Supervisor Danny Sauter requested more trash cans in his district, Public Works deflected by announcing the relaunch of the costly Slim Silhouette to replace existing ‘90s-era cans already on the streets, but they’re not adding additional trash cans to the mix, which doesn't solve the shortage.
SF News Trash and Debris Showing Up Again On SF Beaches, As It Often Does After Rainstorms Fort Funston and Ocean Beach are once again strewn with litter and debris, as rainstorms have a way of drifting white bags and single-use plastics onto the shores near the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Yosemite Litter Cleanup Reveals Range of Trash, Marks Record Low Total in 20 Years The most common items that millions of visitors leave behind at the national park include food wrappers, cigarette butts, cleaning wipes, plastic wrapping, and straws.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plastic Sprinkles From Museum Of Ice Cream Found In Gutters And On Sidewalks Around Union Square The Museum of Ice Cream turns out to have one cleanup duty they need to tend to, and neighbors are starting to notice. An SFist tipster sent in the photos below decrying the
SF News Huge Fines Proposed for Dolores Park Litterbugs As sure as the sun rises every Sunday and Monday morning, the sun will greet a completely trashed Dolores Park landscape following any warm weekend afternoon. Park revelers have been leaving hundreds of
SF News A Decade After Gavin Newsom Pulled SF's Trash Cans, Ed Lee Brings (Some Of) Them Back It was June of 2007, when then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declared "We have too many garbage cans in the city," and ordered SF's Department of Public Works to remove half of the
SF News Costumed Street Cleaners Are On A Caped Crusade Against Littered Needles You could say they're cosplaying for a cause. A group of volunteers called "The Initiative" are making their neighborhood clean up work considerably more exciting with cool capes and outfits, and for her
SF News In Confusing Bid To Reduce Litter, National Park Service Pulls Ocean Beach Trash Cans In a bizarrely counterintuitive move echoing San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department's efforts in Dolores Park, the National Park Service has removed a series of garbage cans along the Ocean Beach promenade with
SF News S.F. Handbill Laws Might Get Stricter City officials met on Monday in an effort to combat those pervasive delivery menus and nail salon fliers abundantly placed on our front doors that more often than not get blown in the
SF News New SF Tax For Smokers To Help Clean Up City Streets This morning, a fresh new ordinance went into effect: cigarette addicts now must pay 20 cents extra per pack "in order cover the costs of cleaning up discarded cigarette butts throughout the city.
misc Dolores Park Clean-Up on Sunday In an effort to combat shameless litterbugs, loyal Dolores Park-goers have organized a regular Dolores Park Clean-Up effort. The first one is happening this Sunday at 5 p.m., and volunteers are invited
misc Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Note Behavior of Dolores Park Litterers Mission Mission posted this appalling photo of the trash left behind at Dolores Park on Easter Sunday, which was taken at 7 a.m. yesterday morning. Nearly 3,500 people were still hanging
misc What Not To Do With Your Crap We were headed out to work this morning, and we saw the above Mesozoic-era monitor, right there in the middle of the sidewalk. A lazy person would have left it next to a
misc Coffee Cups for Dolphins What could be the meaning of this bizarre pictograph? It seems to us to be pro-litter! (SFist waxes indignant on the topic of litter here and here.) Our top three possible intended meanings:
misc Litterbugs According to the 97-page litter audit, litter that falls in the category of "printed fiber" (such as newspapers) is UP, from 26.7% to 31.3% of large litter. In the newspaper reports,
