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
SF News Day Around The Bay: Garbage And Recycling Fees Shoot Up For Small Buildings Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Today's terror attack in Barcelona has prompted the SFPD
SF News Man Discovered In Critical Condition At Recology Recycling Center Probably Got There Via Dumpster Early this morning, a loader operator at Recology's Pier 96 recycling center noticed, in a pile of bottles, cans, and cardboard, a seriously injured man who was likely in a dumpster whose contents
SF News Feared Hazmat Incident Sickens 26 At Pier 96 Recology Recycling Center Twenty-six people were treated for nausea this morning at Recology's Pier 96 recycling center after being exposed to what officials initially thought might be a hazardous chemical spill. According to ABC 7, there
SF News Does Recology Sort The Black Trash? Sifting The Truth Out Of A Recycling Myth The answer to the question of whether our garbage overlords do any sorting of recyclables from our trash is NO, everything in the black bin goes to landfill automatically, and yes, that's a
SF News 50% Of Contents From Black SF Waste Bins Is Recyclable Or Compostable How do we put out so much waste in San Francisco, about 650 tons per day compared to just 600 tons of recycled and composted material combined? Simply by throwing away compostable and
SF News Four Injured When Cable Car And Recology Truck Collide Another wet foggy morning on Mason St. I look out my window & what do I see? The Little #CableCar That Could(n't). pic.twitter.com/n0SjtXZwhr— Ivy Something (@ivysomething) March 9, 2016
SF News Recology Intentionally Told Schools To Trash Millions Of Recyclable Trays Recology instructed San Francisco school officials to not recycle the recyclable plastic trays the district uses daily to serve students food. So reports the Chronicle, which details the policies of the city-contracted waste
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Restaurants Protest Crazy High Fees For Composting, Will Throw Stuff In Trash Instead The City of Oakland has a contract for their waste removal and recycling that is being passed along to consumers at a far higher rate than other Bay Area cities. As the Chronicle
SF News What Does It Say About SF That No One Knows If This Trashcan-Scooting Startup Is Real? Big takes on These Disruptive Times seem better suited to multimilliondollar, VC-funded, vanity-project sites than to the pages of SFist, but I'll tell you this: if no one can tell if your startup
Arts & Entertainment Artists Are Getting Paid To Use SF's Recyclables To Make Pretty Things As part of Recology's Artist In Residence program, San Francisco artists apply for residencies in which they get studio space at Recology's Solid Waste Transfer facility near Candlestick Park, and full scavenging privileges
SF News Video: Meet The Man, Dog, And Hawk Team Fighting Seagulls For Recology At Recology's recycling yard at San Francisco's southern edge, Indigo Redondo releases his three-year old Harris hawk, Nina, to keep swarms of seagulls from feasting on garbage and dropping scraps into the bay.
Arts & Entertainment One Year After Her Rescue, Gem The Trash Puppy Raises Thousands For SF ACC It was December 20, 2013 when a Recology staffer rescued a wounded, two-month-old puppy just moments before she was dumped off a conveyor belt from a truckload of recyclables. At first, officials weren't
SF News More Of San Francisco's Trash Went To Landfills Last Year, Not Less Nate Silver's swell number-crunching blog FiveThirtyEight just did an exposé of sorts about San Francisco's long-held status as the nation's mecca for trash diversion specifically the oft-cited figure that, as a city, we
SF News Recology Will Turn Your Christmas Tree Into Green Energy It's about the time of year where the dried carcasses of Christmas Past will begin to line the streets of San Francisco, waiting to be either burned on Ocean Beach or just settling
SF News Trashpuppies and Catnappers: Your Animal News Roundup The holidays can be stressful for everyone, but somehow most of us manage not to throw puppies in the trash. Not so for the persons now wanted by the Animal Care and Control
SF News Recology Garbage Truck Backs Over, Kills Elderly Pedestrian In The Tenderloin This morning around 7:40 a.m. near the corner of Jones and O'Farrell in the Tenderloin, an elderly man was struck and killed by a garbage truck for Recology that was reversing
SF News Pile Of Recycling Debris Fuels Overnight Recology Fire, Does Not Spare The Air For more than nine hours last night, a crew of over 100 firefighters battled a fire at Recology's recycling warehouse in the Bayview. The blaze ignited around 8:30 p.m. after the
SF News Woman Struck By Garbage Truck On Interstate 80 In San Francisco Around 6 a.m. Friday morning a Recology garbage truck struck a woman walking on the eastbound section of Interstate 80 near Seventh Street in SoMa. She was taken to San Francisco General
SF News Mayor Lee Rewarded With Buckets Of Your Discarded Leftovers 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
SF News This Year, Properly Memorialize Your Christmas Tree's Sacrifice SFist would like to remind you that it is unsightly to keep a rotting evergreen corpse in your living room past January 1st, but exceptions will be made in order to properly dispose
misc Never Fear, You CAN Recycle Mr. Potato Head Recycling technology sure has come a long way, and it looks like San Francisco's Recology might be leading the charge. After noticing the forlorn Mr. Potato Head pictured on the "Recyclable" label of
