They came, they partied and they left behind a massive mess.
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San Francisco officials awarded a $112 million garbage contract to one company by using a process that stunk, according to a lawsuit filed this week by a competing trash disposal company.
The lawsuit comes as a Board of Supervisors committee is set to approve a 10-year contract with Recology today to dispose of waste in the company’s landfill in Yuba County.
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An effort is under way to open up San Francisco’s garbage hauling business to competition for the first time in 80 years.
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A dispute over The City’s lucrative garbage business has two waste-hauling companies trash-talking. Recology is on the brink of winning a 10-year contract from The City to dispose of the waste in the rubbish-company’s landfill 130 miles away in Yuba County.
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The first week of San Mateo County’s new trash collection system has seen a boost in the amount of garbage collected.
Recology San Mateo reported that in the first three days of service, it took in a 78 percent increase in the average daily organic materials collected and a 31 percent bump in recyclable materials collected. The company took over service Monday.
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Braving through thick fog and piles of discarded trash, thousands of volunteers flocked to The City’s beaches and waterways Saturday morning as part of a statewide effort to spiff up the coastline.
Participants spent as long as three hours stuffing plastic bags with all sorts of strange debris, including fast-food wrappers, damp clothing and shattered shards of old television sets. Several people got lucky and found a few dollar bills and some change along the way.
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The discovery of a body wrapped in a plastic bag and placed in a garbage bin in the basement of an apartment complex near Union Square is being investigated as a homicide by the San Francisco Police Department.
Officers received a call reporting the body at 520 Taylor St. a little before noon Thursday, according to police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens.
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One week after The Examiner reported The City might start fining residents as much as $1,000 if they repeatedly put compostable or recyclable material in the wrong curbside bin, Mayor Gavin Newsom called the proposal “outrageous” and capped the fines at $100.
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