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Recycling & Compost Training
2013
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San Francisco’s Waste Reduction Goals
● 75% of Waste Diverted From Landfill by 2010.
● Zero Waste to Landfill by 2020.
● SF currently diverts 80% of all discards from landfill.
● It will require the participation of ALL businesses & residents to reach our goals.
Zero Waste 2020
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Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance for All SF Businesses & Residents
Recycling
Compost
Trash
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Three Choices
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What to Recycle
Paper
White paper
Colored office paper
Envelopes
File folders
Post-It Notes & Staples are ok
Cardboard
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What to Recycle
Glass Bottles & Jars
Food & drink containers only
Empty before recycling
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What to Recycle
Almost All Plastic
Water & Juice Bottles
Milk Jugs
Rigid Tubs & Lids
Clamshell Containers
Plant Containers
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What to Recycle
Aluminum Cans, Foil & Trays
Steel & Tin Cans
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What to Compost
Food Scraps
Food-related Paper Products Paper towels,
napkins, plates & paper cups
Waxed cardboard, milk and juice cartons
Compostable Plastics (only with green label)
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What to Compost
● Paper towels from rest rooms are collected for compost as well.
● Composting paper towels reduces waste and green house gases!
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Very Few Items Belong in the Trash
PLASTIC BAGS
WRAPPERS
PLASTIC WRAP
STYROFOAM
HARD TO RECYCLE PACKAGING
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Central Office Collection Station
All 3 containers placed together
Less trash with more recycling and composting
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Don’t Throw These in Trash
Please ~ No Electronic Devices Inside there are Toxic Materials
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Don’t Throw These in Trash
Please ~ No Batteries, Lamps or Ink/Toner Cartridges
Inside there are Toxic Materials
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Avoid Contamination
Clean white office paper is made into new white office paper and high quality tissue products
Mixed paper becomes cereal boxes, paper towels & tissues
Cardboard becomes new boxes
Recycled glass bottles are used to make new glass bottles and jars
Recycled plastic bottles can be used to make new products like carpet and fleece vests and jackets
Food scraps are composted and sold to farmers, wineries & gardeners
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Recycling is processed at Pier 96 on San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront. A state of the art facility was constructed to separate mixed recyclables into different commodities to be sold to recycling markets.
Mixed materials enter the west side of the building
After sorting, separated commodities are ready for sale to recyclers
Recycle Central
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Mixed recycling is loaded onto conveyor lines which transport the material to the top of a two-story platform.
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On the platform, mechanical & manual separation is used to sort the recyclables into individual commodities. Plastic bags cause significant equipment problems and shutdowns.
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Workers on the platform pull cardboard, paper, plastics & glass and drop them into corresponding bins where the material is collected at the ground level.
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Glass is sorted by color. Plastics are separated by type. Paper is separated by grade (mixed paper, white paper, newspaper, cardboard, etc.). Steel & Aluminum are captured by magnets and air currents.
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Separated materials are compacted into bales and are ready for end markets. Manufacturers purchase the commodities and make them into other plastic, paper, glass, and metal products.
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Most recyclable materials are sold to manufacturers in China & other Pacific Rim countries. While we have a good system in place, it is always best to Reduce our consumption, Reuse existing materials, & then to Recycle.
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Compostable material is taken to Jepson Prairie Organics in Vacaville for processing.
Jepson Prairie Organics
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Plastic Bags Are The Primary Contaminant
That Is Removed From Compost
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Compostable material is ground into small pieces and formed into piles.
The piles are covered with a breathable fabric that accelerates the natural cycle of decomposition with higher temperatures.
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After 45 days the covers are removed and the material is turned for another 30 days and allowed to cure in the sun.
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In 75 days food scraps and paper products are transformed into a nutrient rich soil amendment, COMPOST!
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The finished product COMPOST is used by vineyards and in organic farming applications to grow more food and trees.
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Using compost means pesticides aren’t required, soil fertility is increased, water is conserved, and soil erosion is mitigated.
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Be A Hero
Fight Climate Change
• For every 1 ton of mixed paper recycled, about 4.3 tons of CO2e are avoided.
Save the Forests
• Recycling 1 ton of paper saves about 24 trees and 7,000 gallons of water.
Clean the Air and Water
• Recycling metals reduces air pollution by 85% and water pollution by 75%.
Save Energy
• You could watch more than 2½ hours of television with the energy saved from recycling just one aluminum can.
Help the Economy
• Recycling creates six times as many jobs as landfilling.
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Resources
RecycleWhere - www.sfenvironment.org where to recycle and properly dispose of just about
everything!
SF Green Business Program - www.sfgreenbusiness.org
Stop Junk Mail Kit - www.stopjunkmail.org
SCRAP – www.scrap-sf.org accepts donations of clean, reusable materials from
businesses.