News Notes: San Francisco set to go more green
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors could require residential and commercial building owners to sign up for composting and recycling services.If the new mandatory recycling and composting law is...
View ArticleSolar waste recycling: can the industry stay green?
Clean-tech firms seek to reuse a variety of rare, potentially toxic materials. New businesses emerge as manufacturers prepare for modules’ end of life.In recent years the electronics industry has...
View ArticleTest results of city sludge don’t satisfy critics
When activists dumped processed sewage compost on the steps of San Francisco City Hall in March, the stunt was meant to draw national attention toward a supposed hypocrisy afoot in the greenest city in...
View ArticleIllegal dumping costing city millions of dollars
Residents might want to think twice about dumping that mattress on the street corner because the Department of Public Works is cracking down on people who put unwanted items on city streets.The...
View ArticleCity takes aim at reducing fats, oils and grease clogging sewers
San Franciscans know the chilly fog that blankets the city almost every day, but they might not know another fog is lurking in the city's sewer system: fats, oils and grease (F.O.G).The city spends...
View ArticleAre food service providers really to blame for human waste in the...
This much is clear: the lack of public restroom facilities in the Tenderloin is causing a stench. Fecal matter covers the streets, making it nearly impossible to walk without looking down to dodge the...
View ArticleSex, drugs and filth plague city-sponsored public restrooms
Prostitution and drug use aren’t what San Francisco bargained for 14 years ago when it allowed a private company to install public restrooms across the city. But among the 25 freestanding units,...
View ArticleCity steps in where state fails to regulate toxic manis and pedis
Heidi Hoang was pregnant when she first started working at Nails by Linda in San Francisco’s Sunset District. “There’s a lot of people who say, ‘You have to be careful with this kind of job. Maybe, no...
View ArticleNew roots for green businesses
As the world economy increasingly collides with the limits of linear, “cradle-to-grave” production, more eyes are turning towards resource synergies, upcycling, and improved efficiencies to relieve...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s plastic bag ban expands in October
Appeal vowed over city move to expand in October from grocery, drug stores to other retailersSan Francisco’s hard-fought ban on plastic bags is scheduled to expand in October from grocery and drug...
View ArticleDirtytech: They Obsessively Sort and Recycle What You Dump
If you think of Recology as a set of blue, green and black bins that hang out in the alley of your house that you roll out to the curb weekly — you have no idea.Over the last 10 years, what San...
View ArticlePlans to Relax California Climate Regulations Upset Some Environmentalists
California regulators are weighing plans to make it easier and less expensive for oil refineries and other big industries to comply with the state’s new cap-and-trade system for cutting greenhouse gas...
View ArticleS.F. Board Watch: Supervisors Take Aim at Bottled Water
Bottled water is the latest bottled beverage in the line of fire after Supervisor David Chiu proposed controlling its sale in San Francisco. The proposal comes soon after another proposal, to tax soda,...
View ArticleHomeless Lose Economic Opportunity as Goodwill Flagship Store Closes
CLARIFICATION (7/5/2016): The Goodwill Flagship store was comprised of two retail stores (the main storefront and the As-Is outlet), corporate offices and classrooms for job training services. The...
View ArticleClimate Summit Coverage: A Roundup of Links
San Francisco hosted the two-day Global Climate Action Summit, which ended Friday. The gathering, at the Moscone Convention Center, featured dozens of prominent officials, scientists, business leaders...
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