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 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 S.F.'s Garbage Might Go To Yuba Or Pittsburg Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were asked to vote on lifting a Depression-era ban on allowing competitive bidding on the city's trash business, but they've put the decision on hold.
SF News Newsom Evangelizes About Recycling, Composting in <em>Sacramento Bee</em> Mayor Gavin Newsom took his message about mandatory recycling programs to the Op-Ed page of the Sacramento Bee yesterday, aiming in particular at so-called "high temperature disposal technologies" which he calls "just glorified
SF News Bring Out Your Trash, Alameda An Alameda County judge has ordered Waste Management to start picking up the garbage again. The City of Oakland, who filed suit, says they're gratified by the ruling, since this means, you know,
SF News Garbage In, Garbage Out Over in the East Bay, the city of Oakland's filed suit against Waste Management, the garbage company that's locked out the local workers for 11 days now, and is letting trash pile up