Did you know that it’s a crime to throw away your food scraps in San Francisco? According to a new city law it is, so you better watch where you put the food that you don’t eat.
Following the lead that Seattle, Washington residents took in April of last year, as of today the people of San Francisco are now required to recycle all of their household’s extra food waste. How do they do it? They place the food in a sealed compost bin that gets picked up by the city’s curbside recycling program.
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The food recycling program in San Francisco has been embraced by the residents so far because they no longer have to deal with stinky food smells coming from their overflowing garbage. Plus, the city gets to cut its garbage costs basically in half!
Right now Organics Annex, where the city of San Francisco ships its food waste to be turned into compost, processes about 500 tons of it per day. That’s an amazing feat for a city that already keeps 72% of its entire garbage out of landfills.
The food recycling law is now passed in two states in the U.S., and we hope that other states start to realize just how necessary it is for our green future.
Source: NPR.com
Thts i so awsome how they have to do tht i’d love for texas to have somehting like tht!!!
Wow THAT IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that one of these days California will have that law
How much does that save by having that law have you really thought about that wat will the animals that eat the food out of are garbage and what will andd how will making this law apponted do for the world and im only 12 but i thought about these helpful hints and please contact me if you finnaly get some of trhe awnsers these questions