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This Week Part One: San Fran Shows How It Can Be Done

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San Francisco has a lot to be proud of. The city is taking the sort of initiatives that many other places are still dithering about. These include:

 

A ban on city bodies purchasing serving bottles of water using city funds and now local restaurants cannot use Polystyrene foam (Styrofoam™) disposable food service ware. A list of providers of compostable products can be found at www.sfenvironment.org/foodservice.

San Francisco will also become the first U.S. city to ban plastic shopping bags – this legislation will come into effect on Nov. 20, 2007 for grocery stores and May 20, 2008 for drug stores.

The city has has a 67 percent recycling rate with a goal of 75 percent by 2010 and zero waste by 2020.  Its urban compost program is the largest of its kind in the country with more than 300 tons of food scraps collected every day. They chuck about 90 percent of it on the local vineyards. So we eventually drink it. Delicious!


 

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