National Geographic, Jul. 7, 2022
California’s sweeping new plastics law could be a game-changer
It will take several years to find out for sure, but the world’s fifth-largest economy will likely force changes far beyond the state’s borders.
ABC10, Jul. 7, 2022
From bin to bulldozer: Your organic waste goes to this composting facility in Wheatland
Several piles of the rich and earthy compost fill 10-15 acres at the facility. It all starts with your food going into the green waste bin.
Waste Today Magazine, Jun. 23, 2022
Recology points to diversion program impacts
California company says it helped divert 1.3 million tons of recyclable and compostable materials from landfills last year.
Spectrum News 1, Apr. 22, 2022
Composting law aims to tackle climate change by reducing food waste by 75%
Californians throw away nearly six million tons of food scraps each year, according to data from CalRecycle. A new state law that went into effect this year requires cities and counties to separate organic matter from other trash in hopes of reducing food waste in landfills.
SFGovTV, Apr. 14, 2022
San Francisco Green City: Reducing Plastic
As San Francisco leads the nation as one of the greenest cities, we celebrate the efforts to reduce plastic through education, business, and government. Recology’s robust recycling facility, San Francisco’s ReThink Disposable program, and Dispatch Goods’ reusable container program for restaurants are examples of the environmental ethic that is instilled in San Francisco.
WasteToday, Apr. 11, 2022
Recology says composting is carbon reduction measure
California company says collecting food scraps cuts CO2 emissions and adds carbon as a soil nutrient.
LAist, Apr. 6, 2022
California Mandated Composting.
How Will It Work In LA And What Are We All Expected To Do?
KQED, Mar. 3, 2022
California Pushes to Get More Green Waste into Composting Facilities, Not Landfills
California has set itself an ambitious goal – reduce the amount of food scraps and yard waste that go to landfills by 75 percent.
CGTN, Feb. 2, 2022
California introduces law requiring residents to compost food scraps
The idea was inspired by San Francisco — the first major U.S. city to pioneer such a program more than two decades ago.
KTVU, Jan. 2, 2022
California enacts statewide law to keep food scraps out of landfills
A new law in California will affect what you do in your kitchen.
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 1, 2022
California is about to witness its biggest change to trash since the ’80s
Hint: It’s all about composting
LA Times, Dec. 9, 2021
California goes to war with food waste. Composting is its next climate crusade
Trash never dies. Sometimes it’s not even trash.
San Francisco Examiner, Nov. 30, 2021
Composting sequesters carbon and reduces emissions. Is it enough to fight climate change?
San Francisco celebrating the 25th year of its food scraps collection program.
Economist, Nov. 23, 2021
How to Manage a Megacity
By 2050, 6 billion people could be living in cities. How should the challenges caused by rapid urbanization be handled in the world ahead?
Office of the Mayor, Oct. 20, 2021
San Francisco Celebrates Major Climate Success with 25 Years of Composting
City’s curbside composting program leads the nation, providing all San Franciscans with easy composting at home and furthering the City’s zero waste efforts.
Rolling Stone, Oct. 15, 2021
SF’s ‘Zero Waste’ Goal Has Made it America’s Leading Recycling City
Few cities in the US, let alone the world, have the innovation legacy of San Francisco. Whether it’s the arts or cuisine, technology or public transit, what happens in the Bay Area often establishes a blueprint for cities elsewhere.
Bloomberg, Oct. 14, 2021
The Quest to Make Composting as Simple as Trash Collection
Food waste accounts for 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. More U.S. cities are exploring door-to-door compost collection, but it’s not as easy it might seem.
Business Insider, Sept. 22, 2021
How San Francisco composts 550 tons of waste every day
San Francisco recycles and composts more trash than it sends to the landfill. That means San Francisco is saving water, space, and chemical fertilizers, and reducing destructive greenhouse gases.
So how does composting work where it is servicing a whole city? We went straight to San Francisco’s compost pile to find out if this model can reduce worldwide waste.
KRCR TV, Sat., Aug. 14, 2021
Eureka trash collector’s quick action helps family escape house fire
They say people respond in one of three ways when confronted with a threat or emergency – fight, flight, or freeze. Matt Taylor, a Recology residential driver in Eureka, faced that challenge shortly before sunrise Tuesday morning – and took action.
SquareCylinder.com, July 21, 2021
The Art of Recology @ Bedford Gallery
In this group survey of former Recology artists-in-residence, materiality dominates, which is not surprising given that the primary purpose of San Francisco’s waste management company’s residency program is for artists to engage with its endless supply of trash and recyclables. This show attempts to capture the wide range of works created in situ at San Francisco’s home to all things refuse—from hazardous waste to friendlier recyclables.
SF Public Press, June 29, 2021
Recyclables have to be sorted nearly perfectly at Recology’s Pier 96 facility
In recent years, the mills and foundries that receive recyclables from Recology have stopped accepting material with more than one percent impurities, so the sorting facility at Pier 96 must work at a very high standard. On a tour of the sorting center, we learn what happens when things that don’t belong in the recycling end up there, and what to do about things that are difficult to recycle, like plastic bags.
Biocycle Magazine, April 27, 2021
San Francisco Celebrates 25 Years Of Food Scraps Recycling
This year marks the 25th year that San Francisco residents and businesses can place their food scraps and yard trimmings in green bins at the curb for collection and composting. Recology, the city and county of San Franciso’s solid waste services provider, has worked with the San Francisco Department of Environment since the mid-1990s on the organics diversion program.