| San Francisco Wants To Make You Recycle |
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| Written by Dave Loos | |
| Thursday, 24 April 2008 | |
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San Francisco already has more recycling trucks (174) than garbage trucks (147), so the news this week that Mayor Gavin Newsom would like to make it a crime in his city not to recycle isn't so surprising. But that doesn't make it any less encouraging. Many of the most progressive environmental policy initiatives seem to origininate in the Bay Area these days, and this one fits the mold. To help San Francisco reach its self-imposed goal of a 75 percent recycling rate by 2010, Newsom announced on Earth Day that city officials are drafting an ordinance that would require all residents and businesses to recycle paper, plastics and aluminum, and to compost all food scraps and yard waste. San Francisco wouldn't be the first city to institute a mandatory recycling program, but it would definitely be the largest. The city already has an astounding 70 percent recycling rate, so the ordinance would essentially be aimed at the stragglers. And it's not as if the city plans to levy large fines against the non-compliers, though the penalty that San Francisco has in mind could be just as bad (and smelly). If you don't recycle, they just might not pick up your trash. As Newsom told the San Francisco Chronicle, "When the garbage stays, the impact is rather profound and people change their behavior."
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  written by Karrie, April 29, 2008
Do you think making it a requirement to recycle plan will work? How will it be enforced? It sounds like a good theory, but even if it does work, how far can it actually spread? It seems like a dream that more large cities across the country would make it a requirement... and then the United States as a whole... and then the world... I guess I do like to dream.
written by Uncle B, June 01, 2008
With the oncoming depression and energy crunch, people may try to hoard metals and combustibles, in order to sell them if a 'crunch' comes. Recycling mandated by law and enforced by large fines will come as we run out of glass plastics and metal, but thats further down the road and may no even happen. If we develop desert solar electricity, bio-diesel fuels and geothermal/solar heating for our super-insulated solar powered homes, and add greenhouses and plant GMO veggies that grow fast and cheap, When the crunch comes we will just barely survive. If we presume omnipotence due to our being Americans, we will starve in the dark of our own conceited arrogance. God save us from ourselves, we are our own worst enemy!
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Do you think making it a requirement to recycle plan will work? How will it be enforced? It sounds like a good theory, but even if it does work, how far can it actually spread? It seems like a dream that more large cities across the country would make it a requirement... and then the United States as a whole... and then the world... I guess I do like to dream.
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The city already has an astounding 70 percent recycling rate, so the ordinance would essentially be aimed at the stragglers.
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