Certainly it's caught your eye -- the ubiquitous notice in most outhouses that "dumping hazardous materials" down the loo is a federal offense. When juxtaposed with the interior of a porta-john, the verb "dumping" and the notion of "hazardous materials" have definitely inspired their share of laughs. But, now that San Francisco has experienced its 21st outhouse immolation, it warrants mentioning: Dumping crap into an outhouse is a federal offense. Torching one isn't. The logical first question t
Headed to a landfill near you?It has taken millions of people's jobs and houses. Could the global recession now threaten our health?
This theoretical question is at the heart of a regulatory standoff between California toxics police and the automobile recycling industry.
State regulators want auto recyclers to cease dumping 700,000 tons of potentially toxic automobile recycling waste into municipal landfills, and instead cart it to special, highly-expensive, toxic-waste holding facilities. The
Clean up all the garbage areas in District 5 -- no, clean them all up!If you've ever had a hankering to clean feces off the mayor's doorstep, then, boy, have we got a deal for you! In yet another test of one's altruism -- or stamina -- the Department of Public Works is tossing us a dilemma: Get trashed on Friday, or rise early and help clean up trash on Saturday? Or both, tough guy? In any event, the benevolent will gather at the Panhandle at Baker and Fell at 9 a.m. for a Saturday clean-up e
Possibly heading to Nevada is one more thing to be grouchy aboutSan Francisco's current waste management service, Recology -- formerly known as NorCal -- wants to ship the 20,000 tons of garbage we produce per week (not including weekends) on a freight train to a proposed landfill near Winnemucca, Nevada. Apparently San Fran hasn't quite reached that zero-waste goal yet -- and until we do, we will face the problem of where to stash our trash so that we don't have to be anywhere near it. The c
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