Zero-Waste Movement

" Environmentally sensitive San Francisco is taking aim at trash. Assembling shiny green -- by the truckload to help residents landlords and merchants comply with the new mandatory composting law. Alongside blue and black bins for recycling and garbage the new green it is our -- food scraps and improper sorting could mean hefty fine. It's part of an aggressive push to cut greenhouse gas emissions and have the city sending zero waste to landfills or incinerators by 20/20. It sounds like a tall order but San Francisco was already 72% of the -- there the highest trash diversion rate of any big US city. And it's expensive to send -- landfill makes no economic sense to get a huge hole in the ground and Philly with the we didn't eat. In the land build decomposing food generates methane gas turning that food into compost helps farmers and the earth literally. The compost that we make from food ways. Can put. Really garbled nutrients back in the soil. Sequester carbon. In -- greenhouse gases environment the goal of zero waste his time behind closed consumer uses everything we throw away. Pleading not for the landfill. That wraps -- like this one can be converted into recycling facility. Which will also create new jobs. The collection agencies in new name -- ecology. And the new 3-D graphics on garbage trucks all aimed to get people to look at trash as a resource and already see a big difference at the -- We ecology says composting has grown from 400 to 500 tons a day in the past year. Assigned San Franciscans are on board with zero -- The only trouble now is that two to three week wait for what these green bins in San Francisco Claudia Cowan Fox News."