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The second former Recology employee to be charged in the investigation was John Porter, who was a vice president and general manager of Recology's San Francisco Group. Porter was charged with bribery and money laundering. The complaint against Porter alleged that he approved many of the bribes made by Recology to Nuru. [102]
The San Francisco Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance (No. 100-09) is a local municipal ordinance requiring all persons located in San Francisco to separate their recyclables, compostables and landfilled trash and to participate in recycling and composting programs. [1] Passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2009, it ...
Recology, formerly known as Norcal Waste Systems, is a waste management company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company collects and processes municipal solid waste, reclaiming reusable materials. The company also operates transfer stations, materials recovery facilities (MRFs), a number of landfills, and continues to spearhead ...
Brisbane, California. The Brisbane Baylands is a 660-acre (270 ha) parcel of land in Brisbane, just south of the San Francisco border. [1] There have been several proposals to develop the site, which was previously used as a railyard and a municipal landfill; historical uses have led to contaminated soil and polluted stormwater runoff.
In 2003, San Francisco's Department of the Environment set a citywide goal of zero waste by 2020. [73] San Francisco's refuse hauler, Recology, operates an effective recyclables sorting facility that has helped the city reach a record-breaking landfill diversion rate of 80% as of 2021. [74]
John H. Francis III (born 1946) is an American environmentalist nicknamed The Planetwalker. Born in Philadelphia, the son of a West Indian immigrant, he moved to Marin County, California, as a young man. After witnessing the devastation caused by the 1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill, he stopped riding in motorized vehicles, a vow that lasted 22 ...
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Crown Zellerbach was an American pulp and paper conglomerate based in San Francisco, California, purchased in a hostile takeover in 1985. [1][2] Most of its pulp and paper assets were sold to James River Corporation, now part of Georgia-Pacific. Its name lives on through the Crown Zellerbach Building in San Francisco (One Bush Plaza) and ...