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San Francisco Food Police

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Ut oh.

But it’s a good thing.

San Francisco bridge

San Francisco bridge

If you live in San Francisco, look out! The food police might be watching!

The nation’s toughest recycling law just passed for San Francisco. Garbage MUST be seperated, including food scraps or face a fine of $100. Folks living there will have THREE color coded trash bins. Once for recycling, one for trash and a new one, one for compostable food items.

While the garbage collectors won’t be digging through your trash they will be taking note of obvious blunders. Those folks will be given a written warning. SF isn’t out to make money from the new fines but will be looking for those abusing the new law. Residents can face of fine of up to $100 and business owners can expect to pay $500 for not complying.

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Soda Goes Green!

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Well as green as you can be and still be brown.

Coke in conjunction with RecycleBank recently announced a rewards system for recycling through RecycleBank. Customers that participate in the program collect points by recycling and then use the points to purchase fun rewards.

Of course, you’ll need to reside in a city that participates in the program. It’s a curbside recycling effort, with points and rewards.cola can

Customers in the RecycleBank areas gain points for brands like, Coca-Cola classic, Coke Zero, Diet Coke, Disani water, Nestea and Gold Peak tea, Minute Maid juices and juice drinks as well as Fuze and Glaceau beverages.

Customers can then redeem their recycling points for magazine subscriptions, gift cards, Coke gear, and other rewards.

RecycleBank now services over 90 municipalities and over 200,000 households.

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Recycling Should Be Easy

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

For most people, recycling is easy. Especially for those folks in metropolitan areas.

Where I live, the people that live in town have curbside recycling. You know, those little blue bins they set out at the curb, filled with their recyclables for the week.

I was grateful when the local city decided to do curbside. That meant they were getting serious about recycling. More residents would recycle if it were easy for them.

The problem?

Now that the city has curbside recycling, they’ve done away with all but one of the stand alone recycling centers. I live way outside the city, so I just save my cardboard, plastics and glass up until I have a big box full, then take it with me when I need to head to town.

First they took away the recycling center on the east side of the city. Then they took away the recycling center on the north side of the city. All that’s left is one on the south side. This is the one I must now use. plastic recycling bin

Next they reduced the size of the recycling container for plastics at the one remaining recycling center. Sometimes it’s just too full to put anymore plastic in it, so what do I have to do but haul it all back home again. They aren’t making it easy for the non-residents to recycle. Of course, they may be doing that on purpose.

If they close the last recycling center, that would mean I’d have to haul it to the next city, about 30 miles each way.

Not a very green solution is it?

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