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Recycle or else?
By: Joshua Sabatini
Examiner Staff Writer
05/08/09 7:16 PM PDT
It took a year, but Mayor Gavin Newsom’s proposed law to make it illegal not to recycle will have its first airing Thursday before the Board of Supervisors.
Newsom had proposed the law a year ago, although it seemingly was not well-backed after a number of affected parties sounded off against an array of the provisions. Since then the bill has undergone various alterations.
On Thursday, the board’s Government Audit and Oversight Committee, whose members include Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi, Eric Mar and Sophie Maxwell, could vote to send the proposal to full board.
The law would people sort their garbage in to three separate bins – blue for bottles, cans and paper, green for food scraps or yard trimmings and black for all other trash.
Failure to do so would result in fines.
The City has a goal of diverting all waste from landfills by 2020, with a 75 percent diversion rate by 2010.
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