Composting now mandatory in San Francisco

San Francisco, California has a great city recycling program with nearly everyone participating by recycling everything possible in their daily lives.  With a lofty goal of being zero waste by 2020, Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco is striving to meet that goal by making composting mandatory.  New green bins have been distributed to homes and businesses for a total of 3 bins per business and household.  The green bin is for compostable organic matter, the blue bin is for recyclables, and the black bin is for the remaining trash.  The mandatory composting will bring SFs current 72% deferred waste rate (amount of waste that does not end up in a landfill), to over 90% deferred waste.  That means that only 10% of the city’s waste is actually ending up in a landfill.  Go Cali!  Check out Inhabitat for the original article.