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Jun292009
New San Francisco Law Will Make Property Owners Pay For Trash Removal
June 29, 2009 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis 
Courtesy of yourgreenfriend.com
SAN FRANCISCO- Already with some of the strongest environmental laws in the country, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a new ordinance that will make it mandatory for all city occupants to separate recyclables, compostables, and regular landfill trash. In addition, they will have to pay for it to be picked up.
Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the Ordinance 081404 last week, according to his office, and it will go into effect in late September of this year.
The ordinance will affect both the residential and commercial sectors of the city, requiring the separation of garbage into blue for recyclables, green for compostables, and black for landfill trash.