- Angelo Mayorga wheels trash and recycling to his truck on 40th Avenue. Collectors could take on enforcement duties.
Posted on 08/01/2008 7:43:12 AM PDT by SmithL
Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
And if residents or businesses don't separate the coffee grounds from the newspapers, they would face fines of up to $1,000 and eventually could have their garbage service stopped.
The plan to require proper sorting of refuse would be the nation's first mandatory recycling and composting law. It would direct garbage collectors to inspect the trash to make sure it is put into the right blue, black or green bin, according to a draft of the legislation prepared by the city's Department of the Environment.
The program is designed to limit the amount of food and foliage that goes into the city-contracted landfill in Alameda County, where the refuse takes up costly space and decomposes to form methane, one of the most potent of greenhouse gases. It will also help San Francisco, which city officials say currently diverts 70 percent of its waste from landfills, achieve a goal set by the Board of Supervisors to divert 75 percent by 2010 and have zero waste by 2020.
"If we're truly going to be the city we promote ourselves to be, a world-class, 21st century city that advances its values and principles, we're going to have to try new things," Newsom said Thursday. "People are used to doing things a certain way. And when you change that, they say it can't be done. Well, we've proved them wrong."
He pointed to a doubling in the city's recycling rate from 1996 to 2008, but acknowledged "it will take some time" to win over hearts and minds.
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- Angelo Mayorga wheels trash and recycling to his truck on 40th Avenue. Collectors could take on enforcement duties.
Your Trash Dollars at Work!
does that include the “white trash?”
“”If we’re truly going to be the city we promote ourselves to be, a world-class, 21st century city that advances its values and principles, we’re going to have to try new things,” Newsom said”
If that were true, Newsom and the rest of the clowns running the city would resign today. Failure is their legacy.
I don’t sort trash and I don’t recycle.
There — I said it.
I feel better now.
How about the sordid homosexual trash that habituates his city?
“Collectors could take on enforcement duties.”
...yikes! the garbage police....oh well, it is San Francisco after all.
“Any twosome Newsom” is the perfect example of the government the voters of that electorate deserve
Enviormentalism is mind pollution!
Isn’t unsorted trash the working title for the SF City Council?
I thank God that I live in the #4 county in the nation in which to raise a family (according to Forbes). Thank you, God. I planned it that way and with your help, I succeeded.
Why would anyone choose to live in San Francisco?
If an illegal alien fails to sort his trash, would he be given amnesty?
What S.F. needs is a good, old fashioned, garbage strike!
And once the citizens submit to this the next mandate will be on thermostats. Then travel as use of autos is restricted. Then energy rationing with certain hours of the day as mandatory off time. Then the curtailment of business hours to reduce travel and energy usage.
I suppose I could go on and on but you get the idea. When those who govern are nuts enough to think that they are saving the planet anything and everything is justified.
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