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 Stories About: California AND food AND San Francisco AND solid waste treatment and disposal
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Scrap Happy
San Francisco food-composting program is a hit |
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04 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Scrap Happy San Francisco food-composting program is a hit In 1996, a company called Norcal Waste found that 19 percent of landfill matter in San Francisco consisted of discarded food scraps -- and it sensed a market opportunity. Now the city boasts a popular and growing composting program, with discarded food collected and processed into organically certified "Four Course Compost, ... |
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| Topics: California, food, San Francisco, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics) |
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