The results of the SFPUC’s longawaited study are in: SF’s compost is no more toxic than other form that you could buy at the store.  Nonetheless, not everyone thinks the results are telling the full story.  In the meantime, please enjoy the compost stories below and the pretty roses to your right to help you get through them.

• City’s compost passes tests (Examiner) 07/28/10
• Study: S.F. compost no more toxic than others (Chronicle) 07/28/10
• Stink sticking around in Bayview (Examiner) 04/27/10
• Groups make stink over S.F. 'biosolid' compost (Chronicle) 04/07/10
• Activists Target Alice Waters On Sewage Sludge (CBS 5) 04/02/10
• Shit show (SF Bay Guardian) 03/24/10
• The City’s free compost causes stink (Examiner) 03/05/10
• Organic activists protest San Francisco compost (AP) 03/05/10
• New composting law taking effect (Examiner) 10/20/09
• S.F. composting, recycling becomes law Wednesday (Chronicle) 10/19/09
• Opinion: S.F.'s garbage crackdown makes little sense (Chronicle) 09/14/09
• No flies on S.F.'s new composting law (Chronicle) 09/09/09
• In S.F., thou shalt compost: It's the law (Sac Bee) 07/02/09
• SF mandatory compost law is food for thought (Mercury News) 06/11/09
• San Francisco's strict new recycling rules mean no food scraps in the trash (Bay City News) 06/11/09
• San Francisco to Toughen a Strict Recycling Law (New York Times) 06/11/09
• S.F. OKs toughest recycling law in U.S. (Chronicle) 06/10/09
• City Hall Watch: ‘Big Brother’ composting law approved (Examiner) 06/10/09
• Trash bin violators beware (Examiner) 05/29/09

Tags: The Environment

Posted on Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 7:16 am