“Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds and grease-stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco, and could even lead to a fine.”
SF Gate has the blue cart, green cart, black cart garbage sorting rules.
Here at Casa NewMexiKen we don’t even have recycling (unless we take it ourselves). We’re told it would be too expensive. Hello! What’s too expensive?
So, do you take it yourself?
Why yes I do for cardboard and glass. Alas, not so much for paper and cans. Two or three cans a week would be about it, so I look the other way and toss them in the wastebasket. And the only paper are magazines and junk mail, but I should do better.
But I’d gladly pay, say $10 a month more to have them collect recyclables. I pay $15 now just for them to take trash (which is whatever I put at the curb on Wednesday mornings).