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  2. San Francisco Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance

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    The roots of San Francisco's recycling and composting program can be traced back to the formation of the Scavengers Protective Union in 1879, when loose federations of scavengers began. Most were Italian immigrants from one region of Italy and they hauled municipal waste in horse-drawn wagons and hand-separated valuable discards for resale.

  3. Recology - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of Recology San Francisco, Recology's dump/transfer station. Recology Inc., formerly known as Norcal Waste Systems, is an American waste management company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company collects and processes municipal solid waste, reclaiming reusable materials.

  4. Dumpville - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco's Dumpville was a permanent village along the shores of Mission Bay that existed from the 1860s until 1895. Dumpville was an early refuse site on Southern Pacific Railroad land, a loosely structured community of mostly men, not unlike dump sites across the planet. It was on the shore of Mission Creek, the waters called "poverty lake."

  5. San Fran Mandates Composting - AOL

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    Don't get caught trashing a banana peel in San Fran. The city's already on the forefront of the green movement with its rigorous recycling programs, now it's passed a mandatory composting law that ...

  6. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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    A map of Superfund sites in California. This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.

  7. United Airlines Flight 863 - Wikipedia

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    Residents in houses along the flight path, in South San Francisco, Daly City, and San Francisco, called into the airport to complain about the noise and voice their fears the aircraft was about to crash. [1] After the near-collision, UA863 was vectored out to sea to dump fuel to reduce weight and return to San Francisco for an overweight ...

  8. San Francisco Department of Public Works corruption scandal

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    Recology, Inc. is an umbrella company that holds contracts with San Francisco and other San Francisco bay area counties and cities for collection of trash, recycling and composting. In San Francisco, Recology's contract is a monopoly that originated from a voter-approved ordinance in 1932. [97]

  9. Newby Island landfill - Wikipedia

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    The Newby Island Landfill (NISL) is one of the largest active landfills on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. It is located in Santa Clara County, California in the United States. The site is located within the city limits of San Jose, California at the western terminus of Dixon Landing Road. The address is 1601 Dixon Landing Road, Milpitas.