SF News Saturday Links: Garbage Strike Ends With Tentative Deal, Pickup Set to Resume Saturday SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto denied DOJ's request to hand over a list of noncitizen inmates; a driver in LA crashed into a crowd early Saturday, injuring over 30 people; and trash pickup will resume this weekend as the strike has ended with a tentative deal.
SF News Garbage Piling Up In Bay Area Cities as Trash Collector Strike Enters Second Week Nearly two dozen Bay Area cities are among those nationwide being affected by the Republic Services trash collector strike, and some of these cities are being forced to get creative with dumpsters as the rubbish continues to stack up.
SF News Sunday Links: Young Black Riders Take the Reins at Historic Bill Pickett Rodeo in Castro Valley Around 300 teens wreaked havoc on a Brentwood mall in the East Bay; a paraglider was rescued after they lost control and crash-landed at Daly City's Mussel Rock Park; and the national Bill Pickett Rodeo honors Black cowboy culture in the East Bay.
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 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 News Reminder: You’ve Got One More Week to Give Feedback on Those $20,000 Trash Can Prototypes You SF taxpayers paid big money for those sleek new stainless steel (and very pricey) trash can prototypes, so you might as well get your money’s worth and try ‘em all in these final seven days of the feedback period.
SF News Nobody Fined Yet for Not Composting, But Maybe Soon? 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
