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Cities and towns could aim for zero waste

By Hicbd
Wed Sep 23 2020 3:21 pm

"By 2012, San Francisco had managed to recycle, compost, or reuse 80 percent of its waste—the highest rate of any US city; the countrywide average around that time was 34 percent. To get that far, the city relied on high-tech sorting and composting facilities. Now the San Francisco Department of the Environment says that if every resident sorted their waste into the right bins, the city could keep about 90 percent of its waste out of landfills."

URL:
https://www.wired.com/story/san-franciscos-dream-of-zero-waste-lands-in-the-dumpster/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/how-san-francisco-became-a-global-leader-in-waste-management.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/zero-waste-town-kamikatsu-japan-2017-7

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Environment Waste / Garbage / Landfills / Trash Cities Composting Towns / Suburbs

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