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San Francisco, CA

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Six weeks till composting in SF is mandatory..

Get ready to compost or face a fine...
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/0...

Recovery Parks, Free Geeks and Plasma: Vancouver Debates Zero Waste

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Recovery Parks, Free Geeks and Plasma: Vancouver Debates Zero Waste

Can we imagine a day when, having sorted out our recyclables and compost-ables, then responsibly earmarked our "still perfectly good" stuff for reuse, we'll have no trash left to drag to the curb?

Greening the Mexico City Dump

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Greening the Mexico City Dump

Mexico City decides to recycle and reuse their mountain of garbage....700 trucks per day of garbage, besides the remains of...oh, yes, a tremendous earthquake.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28777897/

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San Francisco, CA

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S.F. mayor proposes fines for unsorted trash

Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/200...

Learn to Compost at Home!
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Learn to Compost at Home!

Composting at Home

Boston, MA: Taking In the Trash In Boston

Boston, MA

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Boston, MA: Taking In the Trash In Boston

Used to be you took out the trash. But if Boston officials have their way, the trash will soon be coming in—at least some of it, that is. City officials hope to use this trash to produce enough energy to power about 1,500 homes. It’s all part of an innovative new initiative to create an indoor composting center that would help slash green-house gas emissions from the decaying pile of discarded food and yard-cuttings that comprise Beantown’s outdoor, 6,000-ton composting program. The new facility would allow officials to separate out the high-energy components in the pile and feed them into an anaerobic digester, where they would be converted to methane gas. This biofuel would then be used to power a turbine that could generate 1.5 megawatts of power. Not bad for a pile of garbage! In Boston (and around the country) outdoor composti

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