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 Uh-Oh! Trash From Sewer ‘Outfalls’ Now Strewn All Across Ocean Beach, Fort Funston Trash and refuse now cover the sand at SF’s Fort Funston and Ocean Beach, but don’t go picking it up — as it’s from sewer system “outfalls.”
SF News San Francisco Budget Cuts Trash Plans for City's New Fancy, Expensive Trash Cans The Department of Public Works has already spent more than half a million dollars on this project to customize and prototype new trash cans, but they said Friday it's on pause amid the city's budget deficit.
SF News Incredibly Pricey Trash Can Drama Returns, City Hall Committee Halts New Cans' Approval The saga of what were originally the widely derided $20,000 trash cans is back in the headlines, as a City Hall committee has put the final approval of the “Slim Silhouette” bins on hold over vandalism concerns.
SF News Thousands Turn Out for the 35th Battle For The Bay, Filling Orange Trash Bags and Cleaning Up Parks Armed with trash bags and trash-picking gadgets, over 7,000 volunteers combed coastlines and green spaces around the Bay Area Saturday to clean up any-and-all stray trash.
SF News Supes Surprised At Months-Old News That Dolores Park Litterers Are Never Cited It appears that District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy has something in common with a certain kind of fragile Hollywood star — he never, it appears, reads coverage of himself. That was made apparent Wednesday,
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 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 Group Solicits Pics Of Sidewalk Trash In Effort To Clean Up City SF Beautiful, a non-profit founded in 1947 in response to efforts to remove cable car lines in favor of diesel buses, has a new target in its sights: All that trash on our
SF News Intern For London Breed Beefs With Tourist Complaining About Litter The office of the president of the Board of Supervisors got into it with a tourist last week, reaffirming the old adage that only San Franciscans can talk trash about San Francisco. It
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Jason Mecier's New Show Depicts Icons With Their 'Celebrity Trash' Longtime San Francisco art lovers will surely recognize the signature artwork of local legend Jason Mecier, the kaleidoscope-portrait prodigy whose 20-year body of work includes such notables as the Big Bird portrait made
SF News 4/20's Enormous Mess, By The Numbers @lrbrinkley pic.twitter.com/swPUF9x9m0— P@nd!zzy (@panda4good4ever) April 21, 2016 Two days after San Francisco's massive 4/20 celebration of everything cannabis and the mess, officials say, is finally cleaned up.
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 News Video: Wow, The New Dolores Park Rangers Sure Aren't Messing Around Rangers just tackled / arrested a Dolores park reveler. pic.twitter.com/ZrsUasberM— Jack (@WarrenMarcusson) February 16, 2016 Yesterday was gorgeous, and many of you followed our advice and went to Dolores Park to
SF News 200 Gallons Of Fireworks Refuse Washes Up On Beach Following Super Bowl Display National Park officials are pointing fingers after an influx of trash washed ashore at Aquatic Park over the weekend. The garbage, they claim the result of Saturday's Super Bowl City opening fireworks display,
SF News Someone Threw These Puppies In A Merced Dumpster Ugh. Last week six border collie puppies were found abandoned in a Merced dumpster. After being discovered by a hair salon worker in the process of taking out the trash, the 4-month-old puppies
SF News Rec & Parks Hires Extra Trash Guy For Dolores Park Since we're all very concerned about the trash-pocalypse that occurs weekly, and sometimes daily, at Dolores Park, here's a very important update: Rec & Parks appears to have added a job to the
SF News Why Are You Jerks Leaving Trash On The Fort Mason Great Meadow? Who else is as disappointed as I am in how the Great Meadow was left by the people who were there on this lovely Saturday? Why would anyone treat this lovely public area
SF News Dolores Park's Massive Trash Problem, By The Numbers We've been talking a lot about troubles and general weirdness at Dolores Park lately, from bottles smashed in a sandbox to their guinea pig encampment to vandals who caused over $100K of damage
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 Innocent Dolores Park Trashed By Hipsters, Holiday Revelers! The typically peaceful and friendly Dolores Park was shattered after holiday attendees trashed the noted Mission/Castro park during the 4th of July. For shame! "The Dolores Park crowd, estimated to number about
SF News Marina Garbage Trashes Fort Mason...Again [Updated] The flaccid fratboys and aging sorority girls of the Marina have done it again. Not learning their lesson from in April of this year, San Francisco's most troublesome social strata layer trashed the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Neighborhood Fried Chicken Joint Ravaged By Bay To Breakers The 101st running of Bay to Breakers was fairly tame by B2B standards: some people got arrested, some people peed in the bushes and some people just threw all of their trash on
Arts & Entertainment Look At These Green Activists Partying On Earth Day As SFist continues to debrief the Bay Area on the topic of Earth Day fallout, reader Michael Siminitus sent along a few of these photos from the actual Earth Day Celebration that went
