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SF Environment gives zero-waste training to city employees, highlights diversion progress
Summary
City staff presented a zero-waste training for employees, highlighting San Francisco’s diversion history, legal milestones (AB 939), current diversion levels and practical steps for offices, and noting gaps in upstream waste generation despite rising recycling rates.
Julie Bryant, City Government Zero Waste Senior Coordinator at the Department of the Environment, presented the department’s training for city employees and reviewed San Francisco’s zero-waste history and practical office practices.
Bryant explained that California’s AB 939 set municipal diversion goals and that San Francisco has since adopted more ambitious targets, including a 75 percent landfill diversion resolution and a local goal of zero waste by 2020. She said the city currently diverts roughly 50 percent of material from landfill and that diversion and composting rates have risen even as total generation has begun…
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