ADVISORY/Model Program Proposed to Boost San Francisco Above State-Mandated 50 Percent Recycling Law; First to Collect Food Scraps Citywide for Composting.

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The core elements of Sunset Scavenger Company's model program include: color-coded carts with attached lids to hold recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. and garbage garbage: see solid waste. ; citywide collection of food scraps, yard trimmings and other organic materials for composting

For the product of composting see compost

Composting is the controlled aerobic decomposition of biodegradable organic matter, producing compost. ; a new collection fleet; and improvements to recycling facilities in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden .

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