SAN FRANCISCO — Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds and grease-stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco and could even lead to a fine.
The Board of Supervisors voted 9 to 2 Tuesday to approve Mayor Gavin Newsom’s proposal for the most comprehensive mandatory composting and recycling law in the country. It’s an aggressive push to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and have the city sending nothing to landfills or incinerators by 2020.
The legislation calls for every residence and business in the city to have three color-coded bins for waste: blue for recycling, green for compost and black for trash.
Failing to properly sort your refuse could result in a fine after several warnings, but New som and other officials say fines will be levied only in the most egregious cases.
