Digested From "S.F. Renters Get Set to Join Mandatory Composting Effort"
Sacramento Bee (CA) by Jeff Mitchell
Later this month, the country's first mandatory composting law will go into effect in San Francisco. City workers are currently scrambling to get the various green and blue bins out to thousands of apartment communities and commercial buildings. Quite possibly the biggest and most overlooked aspect of the new law will be its impact on the occupants of the approximately 220,000 apartments who have not previously had an opportunity to take part in the city's ambitious voluntary recycling programs. The new law says apartment residents will all now be a part of mandatory recycling efforts throughout San Francisco. Jared Blumenfeld, director of the Department of the Environment, states, "Right now our big push is to get the [compost] bins out to the apartment resident population. Individual apartment dwellers are calling us every day saying they've heard of the new law and really want to participate. They're telling us that they are putting pressure on their landlords and property managers to get signed up for the program."
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