Composting and Food Waste
The amount of time it takes a head of lettuce to decompose in a landfill.
What is 25 years?
Put them in a bag on the top of your waste bin at the curb on pick up day.
How can you recycle batteries?
2000 gallons of water
The Plastic Resin Codes most likely to be recycled.
What are PRC #1 and #2?
A type of environment with zero oxygen that creates methane.
What is anaerobic?
The largest source of food waste in the US.
What is food wasted in homes?
The US city that first introduced the 3-bin waste sorting system.
What is San Francisco?
X% and the second-highest amount
What share of textiles makes
Extended Producer Responsibility
What is the type of law that requires manufacturers to be responsible for the end of life of their products?
A greenhouse gas that accounts for 30% of human-caused global warming and is the second-largest contributor to climate change.
What is methane?
The nation's first ordinance requiring the separation of green waste from landfill bound waste.
What is San Francisco's 2009...?
Clean, loose (not in a plastic bag), and dry.
What is the way that all recyclables should be put in the blue bin.
SHEIN and H&M
What are the biggest fast fashion brands?
The percent of plastic that gets recycled globally.
What is X%?
The "emergency brake" we can pull for climate change.
What is methane mitigation?
The certification indicating that something is safe for composting in San Francisco.
What is BPI certified compostable?
The process of taking a material and turning it into a less valuable or lower quality item.
What is downcycling?
The biggest plastic polluter in the world.
What is Coca Cola?
Put all organic waste in the curbside compost bin.
What is one of the most impactful ways you can reduce your greenhouse gas emissions in San Francisco?
The number of days that it takes for Recoloy SF's green bin material to become compost.
What is 60 days?
Because it's contaminated with food or is wet.
What is a common reason paper can't be recycled and it ends up in the landfill?
What plastic is made out of.
What are fossil fuels like crude oil, natural gas, and coal?
Using reusable items and consuming less stuff.
What is the best way an individual can reduce their climate impact?