News Archive
How to Manage a Megacity
By 2050, 6 billion people could be living in cities. How should the challenges caused by rapid urbanization be handled in the world ahead? Economist, Nov. 23, 2021
San Francisco Celebrates Major Climate Success with 25 Years of Composting
The city’s curbside composting program leads the nation, providing all San Franciscans with easy composting at home and furthering the City’s zero waste efforts. Office of the Mayor, Oct. 20, 2021
SF’s ‘Zero Waste’ Goal Has Made it America’s Leading Recycling City
Few cities in the US, let alone the world, has the innovation legacy of San Francisco. Whether it’s the arts or cuisine, technology, or public transit, what happens in the Bay Area often establishes a blueprint for cities elsewhere. Rolling Stone, Oct. 15, 2021
The Quest to Make Composting as Simple as Trash Collection
Food waste accounts for 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. More U.S. cities are exploring door-to-door compost collection, but it’s not as easy as it might seem. Bloomberg, Oct. 14, 2021
How San Francisco composts 550 tons of waste every day
San Francisco recycles and composts more trash than it sends to the landfill. That means San Francisco is saving water, space, and chemical fertilizers, and reducing destructive greenhouse gases. So how does composting work where it is servicing a whole city? We went straight to San Francisco’s compost pile to find out if this model […]
Eureka trash collector’s quick action helps family escape house fire
They say people respond in one of three ways when confronted with a threat or emergency – fight, flight, or freeze. Matt Taylor, a Recology residential driver in Eureka, faced that challenge shortly before sunrise Tuesday morning – and took action. KRCR TV, Sat., Aug. 14, 2021
The Art of Recology @ Bedford Gallery
In this group survey of former Recology artists-in-residence, materiality dominates, which is not surprising given that the primary purpose of San Francisco’s waste management company’s residency program is for artists to engage with its endless supply of trash and recyclables. This show attempts to capture the wide range of works created in situ at San […]
Recyclables have to be sorted nearly perfectly at Recology’s Pier 96 facility
In recent years, the mills and foundries that receive recyclables from Recology have stopped accepting material with more than one percent impurities, so the sorting facility at Pier 96 must work at a very high standard. On a tour of the sorting center, we learn what happens when things that don’t belong in the recycling […]
San Francisco Celebrates 25 Years Of Food Scraps Recycling
This year marks the 25th year that San Francisco residents and businesses can place their food scraps and yard trimmings in green bins at the curb for collection and composting. Recology, the city and county of San Franciso’s solid waste services provider, has worked with the San Francisco Department of Environment since the mid-1990s on […]