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Student campaign at SF school prompts use of compostable lunch trays

  • Dec 19, 2025

List of places to recycle or compost Christmas tree in Bay Area

  • Dec 26, 2024

Climate Ready: How to host a less wasteful Thanksgiving

  • Nov 20, 2024
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Reducing food waste is good for your budget and the planet

  • Oct 29, 2024

What's an anaerobic digester? This one's helping feed and heat Chicago

  • Aug 14, 2024

Hunter Pence's nonprofit helps clean up garden at Tenderloin school

  • Aug 13, 2024

Recycling Right: Composting Edition

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  • May 24, 2024

Oakland Recycles shares recycling, composting basics

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  • May 17, 2024

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San Francisco compost program that shaped global composting culture marks 30 years of influence

  • May 4
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Student campaign at SF school prompts use of compostable lunch trays

  • Dec 19, 2025
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Former SF Giant Hunter Pence's nonprofit helps clean up garden at Tenderloin school

  • Aug 13, 2024
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Moonshot Compost is turning your food waste into nutrient-rich compost

  • Jun 28, 2022
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California's new composting law in effect: Here's what you need to know

  • Jan 2, 2022
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Sunnyvale turning leftovers into eco-friendly products

  • Dec 30, 2021
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Mandatory composting coming to California in January will change how we dispose food

  • Dec 10, 2021
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Common Rot Is a Subscription Based Compost Service

  • Mar 9, 2020

Latest Stories

H&M says you can compost its new line of baby clothes

All items are 100% biodegradable and also deliberately absent of buttons or any metal trim. Each piece can be composted when it's at its end of use, even by just putting them in an at-home compost pile.

  • Apr 7, 2022

Sunnyvale residents turning food scraps into eco-friendly products

Thanks to residents placing leftovers, trimmings from fruit and vegetables and other food waste in a separate container, all of it will be transformed into eco-friendly products, eventually becoming biofuel and animal feed.

  • Jan 4, 2022

California's new composting law in effect: Here's what you need to know

"It's going to keep millions of tons of materials out of landfills. Reduce methane emissions. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas."

  • Jan 2, 2022
KGO-TV

Mandatory composting coming to California in January will change how we dispose food

Starting next month, there's no more tossing food scraps like banana peels or veggies in the trash. Californians will instead be required to put excess food in waste bins.

  • Dec 11, 2021
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COVID-19 challenges zero waste lifestyle, expert Bea Johnson says don't give up!

Zero waste expert Bea Johnson is marooned in the desert by COVID-19, but she is still reducing trash and says you can too, even in a pandemic.

  • Apr 22, 2020