SF News Don't Dump Unwanted Stuff On City Sidewalks Uh oh. Did you know that you could face a steep, steep fine if you dump your old furniture on the city sidewalks? We didn't. And we've tossed everything from post-party cheap vodka
SF News Recycling Terorrists? In Our Blue Bins? by Chris Jones C.W. "Phone It In" Nevius is complaining about one of his favorite topics in today's Chronicle: "recycling rustlers." How many columns can one guy write about industrious homeless people
SF News Recidivists Beware, Newsom Signs Composting Law Thank God for garbage disposals. Seriously. On your knees. Because Mayor Gavin Newsom just signed a ruling calling on all San Franciscans to compost their eggshells, coffee grounds, apple peels, dead roses and
SF News Board of Supes Threatens Fines for Not Recycling, Composting The San Francisco Board of Supervisors yesterday enacted the toughest law in the nation with regard to mandatory recycling and composting, and within two years business owners and landlords could have pay fines
SF News SF Libertarian Examiner Wants to Tell You Something Anti-reduce, reuse, recycler-er Justin Clarke, AKA SF Libertarian Examiner, would like to tell you something. He would like to tell you that Newsom's alleged plan to criminalize not recycling stinks worse than Ayn
misc Recycling Your Mattress A good question was posed the other day about how to get rid of your old mattress. SF Recycling considers mattresses bulky items, which they will pick up for free once a year
misc Where to Properly Dispose of Electronics Instead of kicking your passé electronics to the curb, be kind and recycle them properly. (We can think of several such items we're currently hoarding in our closets.) SFenvironment.org's front page has
SF News Voyage of the "Plastiki" British environmentalist David de Rothschild, author of Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook, met with members of the San Francisco Conservation Corps on Wednesday to talk about "Plastiki," his seacraft constructed almost entirely
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
Arts & Entertainment Artist In Residence Program at the Dump Before Sunday's Latin-tinged Carnaval drunkfest and the self-consciously zany Live Masturbate-a-Thon, be sure to check out San Francisco's dirty and unique Artist In Residence program happening down at the dump. DeYoung ruler/society
SF News Quote of the Day: Newsom's Green Ego Mayor Gavin Newsom, who seems to be getting a decent amount of ink in the Gray Old Lady these days, says the following about recycling: It's purposefulness that could otherwise be construed as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Lotta stuff going on today, a lot of which we've mentioned before: Another Hole In The Head continues and the Black Film Festival gets started! Also, it's the Berkeley Edge Fest. Here's some
Arts & Entertainment One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Titian: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk You know how some people just can’t seem to throw anything away? Well, Vik Muniz is one of those people and he has amassed a collection of junk that would make any
misc SFist Cares ... About the Earth Last week, we talked about Ultimate Recycling. Today, we want to remind you about Regular Recycling. Because tomorrow is Earth Day.