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Here in Seattle, at least, recycling has transitioned to blue and green is now used for municipal compost bins. I think SF is the same.

• loeg 9y ago
  We (Seattle) used to have separate bins in the late 90's or early 00's. A lot smaller total volume than the 96 gal toters, though.
  • mjevans 9y ago
    I remember that as a kid in general King county (many of the suburbs of Seattle). However it's still not enough. * More bins for more specific TYPES of plastic * Better, machine readable, (BIG) labels * Financial incentives (carrot and stick) I'll elaborate more on that last point. Restaurants should be encouraged to create takeout packaging that is more easily recycled and/or composted. Similarly wrappers, boxes, cups and packets should have a per unit tax for non-environmentally friendly units. There should also be a push towards the use of glass and metal and paper over plastics. Sturdy glass bottles can be cleaned, thermal blast smoothed and re-used or broken down and recycled completely. Similarly metal lids and cans can also attain a new life with ease.
    • loeg 9y ago
      There's always tradeoffs. If you require people sort at home, more recyclables end up in the trash and/or people missort anyway. I agree we should incentivize use of more recyclable materials (in place of non-recyclable or more expensive to recycle materials) in general.
• JBlue42 9y ago
  Blue in LA as well.