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  2. San Francisco Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance

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    The city formed an advisory council to help design another residential curbside pilot and collaboratively started two new programs targeting bar and restaurant glass collection and city government office paper recycling. [5] In 1988, San Francisco's Solid Waste Management Program set diversion goals, calling for a 32 percent reduction in the ...

  3. Recology - Wikipedia

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    The company has a long history in the Bay Area, and holds a no-bid contract for garbage collection in San Francisco.In 1932, the city granted a permanent concession to the city's 97 independent garbage collectors; shortly thereafter those 97 independents banded together to form the company that would become Norcal Waste Systems. [4]

  4. Informal waste collection - Wikipedia

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    South-East Asia Series No.1 ISBN 92-9022-101-1. M. Ali, A. Cotton et K Westlake, Down to Earth: solid waste disposal for low-income countries, WEDC, Loughborough University, 1999 ISBN 0-906055-66-0. Waste recovery as a "way of life" in developed countries: John Hoffman, Art and Science of Dumpster Diving ISBN 1-55950-088-3

  5. South San Francisco High School - Wikipedia

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    The proposal was advocated for by the South San Francisco High School's Students 4 Change group with the support of many current and former students, faculty members, and community members. They considered the logo depicting a generalized Native American man in a feathered headdress to be a stereotypical and disrespectful portrayal of ...

  6. Waste picker - Wikipedia

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    Many terms are used to refer to people who salvage recyclables from the waste stream for sale or personal consumption. In English, these terms include rag picker, reclaimer, informal resource recoverer, binner, recycler, poacher, salvager, scavenger, and waste picker; in Spanish cartonero, chatarrero, pepenador, clasificador, minador and reciclador; and in Portuguese catador de materiais ...

  7. Pay as you throw - Wikipedia

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    Pay as you throw (PAYT) (also called trash metering, unit pricing, variable rate pricing, or user-pay) is a usage-pricing model for disposing of municipal solid waste. Users are charged a rate based on how much waste they present for collection to the municipality or local authority. A variety of models exist depending on the region and ...

  8. Missing girl found dead at San José recycling center after ...

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    A 3-year-old missing girl was found dead at a San José recycling center, not long after her father was found dead in another part of the Bay Area.

  9. Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes

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    The poem describes four people stuck at traffic lights in downtown San Francisco - two are garbage collectors and two are an elegant couple in a Mercedes. The poem is about the contrast between these people and the gap that is developing between the rich and poor even in the USA which is meant to be a 'democracy'.