Food Scrap Collection Comes to South San Francisco

Starting this month, residents in South San Francisco, Millbrae and Brisbane can put items like fruit and vegetable peels, leftovers, napkins and pizza boxes into the green cart, along with yard trimmings. Now offering weekly green cart collection, South San Francisco Scavenger Company will convert the materials into transportation fuel and compost at their new anaerobic digestion facility.

Over the next two weeks, each household will receive a food scrap pail and detailed information about the new program, on their regular collection day.

To ensure that the anaerobic digestion process produces high quality fuel and compost, only food, food soiled paper and yard trimmings should go into the green cart. Contaminants such as plastics, including plastic bags and “bio bags,” glass, metal or any other non-compostable materials interfere with the process and must be kept out of the green cart.

The food scrap collection allows residents to recycle a wide range of materials, including some that can’t be readily composted in backyard compost bins, such as meat, bones, paper plates and milk cartons.

For more information about the residential food scrap program visit www.ssfscavenger.com/foodscraps.