Posts Tagged ‘methane’

This morning, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the nation’s first mandatory composting law. The law requires residents and businesses in San Francisco to dump compostable food scraps into bins similar to their recycling bins, which are then emptied into compost collection trucks.

The new law is part of San Francisco’s efforts to divert 75% of resources from landfills by 2010 and become “zero waste” by 2020. They are on track to …