In case you missed the news flash last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed what are expected to be the toughest recycling laws of any U.S. city.
According to an article in last week’s Chronicle, “the Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 to approve Mayor Gavin Newsom’s proposal for the most comprehensive mandatory composting and recycling law in the country. It’s an aggressive push to cut greenhouse gas emissions and have the city sending nothing to landfills or incinerators by 2020.”
Expected to take effect this fall, the new law will make tossing your food scraps into the regular trash a thing of the past – because it will be against the law. While many of us already have three trash bins – black for trash, blue for recycling and green for compost – most only use the black and blue, and occasionally the green bin for garden cuttings. So many of us will have to step up our use of the green bin and toss in our food scraps, coffee grounds and other compostables.
And what better place to get educated on best composting practices than your local library? Our newly-renovated Richmond Library will be hosting a seminar on Wednesday entitled “Compost and the Climate Change Connection”. The event promises to teach you “all the reasons why putting food scraps (and anything that used to be alive) in your green cart to be turned into compost for local farms is one of the biggest “bang for your buck” actions you can take to help climate change.”
Compost and the Climate Change Connection
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 6:30 – 7:30pm
Richmond Library, 351 9th Avenue
And if you can’t make it to the event, check out the list of what’s compostable on sfrecycling.com.
Sarah B.