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2. Oyster Point Marina/Park - Wikipedia

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   Between 1956 and 1970, the City of South San Francisco leased the site (approximately 57 acres (23 ha)) to the now defunct landfill operator The South San Francisco Scavenger Company. In 1956, Scavenger began disposal operations at the landfill. Initially, municipal solid waste was disposed of on the ground and burned.

3. San Francisco Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance

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   The city formed an advisory council to help design another residential curbside pilot and collaboratively started two new programs targeting bar and restaurant glass collection and city government office paper recycling. [5] In 1988, San Francisco's Solid Waste Management Program set diversion goals, calling for a 32 percent reduction in the ...

4. Recology - Wikipedia

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   The company has a long history in the Bay Area, and holds a no-bid contract for garbage collection in San Francisco.In 1932, the city granted a permanent concession to the city's 97 independent garbage collectors; shortly thereafter those 97 independents banded together to form the company that would become Norcal Waste Systems. [4]

5. Waste picker - Wikipedia

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   Many terms are used to refer to people who salvage recyclables from the waste stream for sale or personal consumption. In English, these terms include rag picker, reclaimer, informal resource recoverer, binner, recycler, poacher, salvager, scavenger, and waste picker; in Spanish cartonero, chatarrero, pepenador, clasificador, minador and reciclador; and in Portuguese catador de materiais ...

6. Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes

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   The poem describes four people stuck at traffic lights in downtown San Francisco - two are garbage collectors and two are an elegant couple in a Mercedes. The poem is about the contrast between these people and the gap that is developing between the rich and poor even in the USA which is meant to be a 'democracy'.

7. Rare tornado rips through shopping center in Scotts Valley ...

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   A video captured a tornado ripping through a shopping center parking lot in California over the weekend. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported that the tornado in Scotts Valley on Saturday caused ...