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What Recology does for you.

San Francisco's 3-cart program is designed to make recycling easier for customers, preserve resources, and help the city reduce its carbon footprint. In San Francisco, Recology collects all recycling in the blue cart and all compost in the green cart. The Recology collection program is central to City of San Francisco's effort to divert 75 percent of waste generated in the city away from landfill disposal by 2010 and to achieve zero waste by 2020.

No fuss options for separating kitchen scraps
San Franciscans have numerous options for separating food scraps for compost collection.

The keys to keeping your kitchen neat and clean are to place your scraps in a container that will not leak and transfer them to a compost collection (green) cart before they begin to break down. Usually that means taking them out once a day, such as after dinner.

Food scrap collection is easy; find the best method that works for you.

Compost collection is now required for all customers in San Francisco.

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City and State law prohibits the theft of any recyclable materials.

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