This is from a post at EcoScraps.
The mayor of San Francisco is proposing a law that would make recycling mandatory in the city. The law would require:
- All landlords to provide adequate recycling and composting for their tenants;
- Businesses that sell items (e.g., takeout food) to allow the public to deposit small amounts of recyclables, compostables and trash in their receptacles;
- Event organizers to site and manage sufficient groups of recycling, composting and trash receptacles;
- If incorrect materials are found in a receptacle (e.g., recyclables in the trash, trash in compostables), the collector shall leave a tag identifying the problem. If incorrect materials continue to be found, the collector can leave a tag and not empty the receptacle;
- Materials accepted in recycling and composting programs to be banned from the landfill transfer station.
Seattle, Philadelphia, and San Diego already have mandatory recycling laws, but SF would the first city to include mandatory composting. The city vows to achieve zero waste by 2020.
Go to source web page: Recycling Soon to be Mandatory in San Francisco : Ecoscraps
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