What Happens to San Francisco’s Recycling Once It Leaves the Curb?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Take a trip to Recology's Recycle Central, where San Francisco's waste is sorted and sent off for processing. Join the Bay Curious team as they test your trash I.Q. Reported by Lindsey Hoshaw. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	Hello, Bay Curious Listeners, I'm Olivia Allen Price, and we're going to start today's
0:09.7	episode with a little game that I'm calling Recycle, compost, or a little game that I'm calling recycle, compost, or landfill.
0:15.0	Playing today, we have John Tepulphadot,
0:20.0	host of KQEDs of The California Report, Hey John,
0:23.3	Hi.
0:24.2	And our second guest works for KQI Science.
0:26.7	It's Lindsay Hocha.
0:27.8	Welcome, Lindsay.
0:28.6	Hey Olivia.
0:30.3	Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still family owned, operated, and argued over.
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0:48.0	So here's how today's game is going to work.
0:51.0	I've got a bag of trash here. I'm going to pull something out of
0:56.8	the bag that should either be recycled, composted, or sent to the landfill. Now here in the Bay Area we take recycling pretty seriously.
1:05.9	So any trip to the trash can turns into quite the decision.
1:09.6	Do you toss that waste in the black bin, which sends it to the landfill, or is it the blue
1:14.7	bin where it goes to the recycling center, or maybe the green bin, where it's trucked off to be
1:20.2	added to the
1:25.0	the compost pile. The first person to buzz in gets to answer, sound easy enough?
1:26.0	Do we get to keep the item?
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