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Casa Capsule: The Week That Was

October 24, 2009 by Composting · Leave a Comment 

See how one house went from dated to delightful . Read my review of ELLE Decor 's new book Style and Substance . Check out these Halloween decorating ideas for your home. Cozy up your home with 10 essentials for Fall living . Decorate with comic books ! Mandatory composting has begun in San Francisco.

San Francisco Implements Nation’s First Mandatory Composting Law

October 22, 2009 by Composting · Leave a Comment 

San Francisco already diverts over 72% of its waste from landfills thanks to rigorous recycling efforts, and now the city is set to cut down on trash even more with the country’s first mandatory composting law, which took effect yesterday. Residents and businesses now have six weeks to start composting food waste, plant trimmings, and [...]read the entire article

San Fran’s Mandatory Composting a Hit With Residents

October 22, 2009 by Composting · Leave a Comment 

You may feel a bit beleaguered hearing so much about The City By the Bay and its green initiatives lately, but San Francisco never fails to deliver. Most recently, the city has enacted Universal Recycling and Composting Ordinance, requiring…read the entire article

A New Law and a Booming Business for Recycling in San Francisco

October 21, 2009 by Composting · Leave a Comment 

RecologyThe amount of compostable material collected from residents and businesses has jumped by 100 tons since a new ordinance was passed in San Francisco last June. A new San Francisco ordinance requiring residential and commercial building owners to sign up for recycling and composting services officially kicks in on Wednesday, but growing evidence already suggests that the law has had an impact.Since June, when the ordinance was signed into law, the amount of compostables collected from resi

Mandatory Composting Begins Wednesday

October 20, 2009 by Composting · Leave a Comment 

It's time to haul out those handy, dandy slop buckets, boys and girls. Starting tomorrow all residents and businesses in San Francisco will be required to start composting or face fines for improperly sorted garbage. Keep an eye open for the arrival of green bins alongside your blue and black bins in which you can dump anything that used to be alive along with coffee filters, greasy old pizza boxes, yard trimmings, and a plethora of other fine compostables that will be rotted down into

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