MANDATORY COMPOST PROGRAM OFFSETS EMISSIONS

摘要

Since the city of San Francisco launched a pilot program in 1996 to compost organics, residents and businesses have recycled more than 907,000 tons of food scraps and plant material by placing them in designated green bins. According to Recology, the company contracted to do the city's garbage collection, recycling and composting, the CO2 emissions avoided by returning the produced compost to the soil rather than sending the organic materials to the landfill add up to the equivalent of removing all traffic that traverses the Bay Bridge for 777 days. Show less