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On The Way To Zero Waste: SF Celebrates Garbage Landmark
The city of San Francisco is diverting 80 percent of all its waste away from landfills, Mayor Ed Lee announced today. Working with the city’s Department of the Environment and Recology, the city’s garbage collector, Lee has been pushing residents, businesses and...
San Francisco Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance
The San Francisco Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance (No. 100-09) is a local municipal ordinance requiring all persons located in San Francisco to separate their recyclables, compostables and landfilled trash and to participate in recycling and composting...
Long-term climate change mitigation potential with organic matter management on grasslands
Greenhouse gas emissions from dairy manure management: a review of field-based studies
Temperature Patterns and the Effect on Microbial Populations during the Composting of Human Waste
The Full Scoop on Composting Poop
By Robert Pavlis on April 10, 2015 Human and animal waste is considered to be a good garden fertilizer in much of the world. In more civilized countries we call it ‘icky’. Can you compost urine and poop? Are there disease issues? Does it need to be composted...
Compost leaders discuss whether plastics are worth the headache
By Jared Paben, Resource Recycling October 13, 2015 Allowing compostable plastic bags in a food scraps collection program can address the "yuck factor" and bring in more material, but be ready to sort them out, experts said. "There's a trade-off," said Jack Macy of...
San Francisco’s Food Composting Program
THE STORY OF ZERO WASTE
Check out the story, here: Zero Waste Story PDF
The potential role of compost in reducing greenhouse gases
Our philosophical attitude towards poo needs to change – Philip Hoare
It’s a logical result of extinction, so one wonders why no one bothered to do the sum before: what happened to the world when it lost the cumulative billions of tonnes of faeces produced by mammoths, sloths and whales? A new study from the University of Vermont has...
USCC Position Statement: Keeping Organics Out of Landfills
The US Composting Council is firmly opposed to landfilling yard debris and other source-separated organics when viable alternatives are available. It is an inefficient way to use our organic feedstocks–wasting resources, reducing recycling, and potentially...
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