SF News Reminder: Recology Will Take Your Christmas Tree for Free If You Put It Out With Your Trash and Recycling Don’t just abandon your natural Christmas tree on the street! Recology will gladly take it and dispose of it responsibly for free if you put it out with your trash and recycling bins during a specific window of time, starting next Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: An $18 Recology Refund Check Could Be Coming Your Way The first winter storm appears to be on its way; the Aquarium of the Bay drama has spawned yet another lawsuit; and you may have a modest check coming because Recology might have overcharged you.
SF News Looks Like Recology’s SF Monopoly Will Live On, as Competing Trash Collector Drops Their Rival Bid You would think that overcharging SF residents by $95 million would lead to Recology losing its monopoly on local trash collection. It has not, and now it appears Recology will keep that monopoly after a competitor dropped their bid.
SF News Reminder: SF Will Take Away Your Christmas Tree for Free If You Put It Out With Your Recycling No need to dump your Christmas tree illegally, as Recology will simply take it for free and turn it into mulch if you put it with your curbside trash and recycling, as they have done for 30 years.
SF News Former Recology Exec Pleads Guilty To Bribing Mohammed Nuru With More Than $55,000 Another ousted Recology executive has pleaded guilty to bribing former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru with cash, meals, and gifts to the tune of around $55,000, and concealing the bribes as donations to Lefty O’Doul’s Foundation for Kids.
SF News [Update] Unicyclist Dies In Collision With Recology Truck In Hayes Valley A person on a motorized unicycle was killed Wednesday morning in a collision with a Recology truck at the notoriously dangerous intersection of Octavia and Oak streets.
SF News More Recology Problems: City Report Alleges They Pulled $23.4 Million More In Profits Than Was Agreed The waste hauler with a monopoly on San Francisco refuse collection is facing another round of pointed questions, as a new report from the city controller says the company “netted profits of $23.4 million over and above” their rate-setting agreement with the city.
SF Politics Aaron Peskin Sure Has Questions About an Unexplained $461,000 Check the City Received from Recology The city apparently received a $461,000 check from Recology on September 16 and has no idea why. They haven’t cashed it yet, and Supervisor Peskin has a few pointed questions about this.
SF News Wife of Deceased Recology Exec Sues the Company, Blaming Them for His Suicide One of the darkest episodes of the Recology public corruption scandal will be aired in federal court, as a grieving spouse claims the company tried to pin the bribery on her husband, causing his suicidal breakdown.
SF Politics Recology's SF Companies Charged With Fraud In Nuru Scandal, Agree to Pay $36M In Penalties to Feds San Francisco's trash and recycling company has admitted to bribing former SF Public Works Director Mohammad Nuru to the tune of $900,000, and it does so just as the federal government was charging it with conspiracy to commit honest services fraud.
SF Politics Former Recology Exec Takes Plea Deal In City Hall Corruption Case, Will Cooperate With Feds Another figure in the ever-unspooling SF City Hall corruption scandal has agreed to plead guilty to bribing former Department of Public Works head Mohammed Nuru, and this means one more cooperating witness for the feds in the cases against Nuru and potentially others.
SF News SF Supes Consider New Custom-Designed Trash Cans That Cost Up to $20,000 Per Can The latest boondoggle at City Hall involves a longstanding project to replace the city's street trash receptacles, and this week a Board of Supervisors committee approved a proposal to manufacture 15 prototype trash cans for testing on the street later this year.
SF Politics The Recology Portal To Sign Up For Your ‘Mohammed Nuru Rebate’ Is Now Open That $100 million in settlement dollars from allegedly mistaken over-charges is now going out to Recology customers over an online portal, though the company claims they’ll send you a check if you do nothing before July 30.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Vote On Recology Settlement That Comes With $190 Refunds for Trash Customers Recology customers in San Francisco are set to get refunds and lower rates from the company, and the city will get a $7 million payout under the terms of a settlement in a lawsuit from the city attorney.
SF Politics Feds Charge Second Recology Executive For Bribery as City Controller Calls to End Their Monopoly A former Recology VP gets charged for bribing and laundering money to Mohammed Nuru, and the City Controller is calling to just break up the whole Recology arrangement.
SF Politics Recology Must Reimburse SF Customers $100 Million For Alleged Mohammed Nuru Bribes SF households will be reimbursed an average of $190 by Recology, amidst charges of bribes to the disgraced former Public Works director that persuaded him to approve rate hikes.
SF News Recology Truck Catches Fire On 101 at Cesar Chavez, Creating Massive Backup A literal garbage fire stopped traffic in the Mission District Friday when a Recology garbage truck became engulfed in flames on the 101 overpass at Cesar Chavez Street.
SF News Local Curbside Pickup for Holiday Trees Expected in Early January Don't give up on your Christmas trees just yet (if for no other reason than to avoid a deluge of dropped needles). SF City officials announced today that these still-living holiday staples can soon be put out for collection sometime in early January.
Business & Tech Amazon Buys Recology Site in SF for $200 Million, Scuttles Plan to Make it Housing Recology just sold its 900 7th Street waste maintenance facility to Amazon, who plan to make it a six-acre delivery warehouse facility in San Francisco.
SF Politics Recology Exec Ensnared In Nuru Scandal, Accused By Feds Of Long-Term Bribery Scheme It looks like federal investigators have snagged a slightly bigger fish in the unfolding SF City Hall corruption scandal that began with the January arrest of former Department of Public Works head Mohammed Nuru, and it's an executive at longtime San Francisco waste management vendor Recology.
SF News Recology's Center In Bayview Hunters Point Gets New High-Tech Help To Organize Recyclables Just in time to probe through holiday wrapping paper and plastic packaging, a crew of new AI-assisted robots and optical scanning machines at San Francisco's Recology recycling center will help make sense of all the reusable bits some 800,000 San Franciscans dispose of daily.
SF News Everything You Need to Know About Discarding Your Christmas Tree in SF The 33rd annual "Chipping of the Trees" is happening outside City Hall Friday to remind everyone to put their trees on the curb with their trash bins before January 15.
SF News Why Not Everything You Recycle In SF Is Actually Getting Recycled You may have seen the dire story two months back about how China had stopped buying America's plastic from recycling centers, but there's more to the story at the local level.
SF News ATTN SF: You Can Now Recycle Bubble Wrap, Plastic Bags, And More In Your Blue Bins Some new Recology recycling guidelines that have been outlined here by sfrecycles.org but have not yet appeared on the Recology website, give us a whole bunch of new things to remember when
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