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    Contra Costa residents are being duped. Despite their efforts to sort food waste and yard trimmings from the landfill, 67% of the material sorted at the curb ends up there anyway. If you live in the Central Contra Costa cities of Danville, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda or Walnut Creek, only one third of the yard clippings collected every week is actually being recycled and composted – the rest is being applied to landfills as Alternative Daily Cover (ADC) to cover garbage at local landfills where it rots and produces harmful greenhouse gasses rather than being composted into nutrient rich compost.

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    Contra Costa residents are being duped. Despite their efforts to sort food waste and yard trimmings from the landfill, 67% of the material sorted at the curb ends up there anyway. If you live in the Central Contra Costa cities of Danville, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda or Walnut Creek, only one third of the yard clippings collected every week is actually being recycled and composted – the rest is being applied to landfills as Alternative Daily Cover (ADC) to cover garbage at local landfills where it rots and produces harmful greenhouse gasses rather than being composted into nutrient rich compost.

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    67% of Central Contra Costa's Food and Yard Waste Is NOT Being Recycled

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    Contra Costa residents are being duped. Despite their efforts to sort food waste and yard trimmings from the landfill, 67% of the material sorted at the curb ends up there anyway. If you live in the Central Contra Costa cities of Danville, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda or Walnut Creek, only one third of the yard clippings collected every week is actually being recycled and composted – the rest is being applied to landfills as Alternative Daily Cover (ADC) to cover garbage at local landfills where it rots and produces harmful greenhouse gasses rather than being composted into nutrient rich compost.

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    CCCSWA Cities and Services - 2012/2013 Franchise Tons

    Jurisdiction

    Municipal Solid Waste Collected by Republic Services (Blue Can)

    Recycling Collected by Waste Management (Brown Can)

    Recycling Processed by Pacific Rim

    Yard Waste Collected by Waste Management (Green Can)

    Yard Waste Processed by Republic Services

    Walnut Creek

    91,627 tons
    Danville

    33,798 tons
    Pacific Rim of Benicia, CA

    55,678 tons
    VIA Republic f~~2 Service's Martinez Transfer Station _

    17,678 tons composted in Richmond in CalRecycle Annual Report ^ 21,487 tons Used as ADC at Keller Canyon Landfill, Owned & Operated by Republic Services

    Unincorporated County

    Republic Services of Phoenix, AZ


    All residential and commercial

    Waste Management of Houston, TX


    Residential onlycommerciai is open by permit

    Waste Management
    Residential only

    Lafayette

    Moraga

    1
    Keller Canyon
    ^

    WM's
    Davis Street in Alameda County

    I VIA WM's

    Davis Transfer Station in Oakland


    Commercial food waste is j Republic to EBMUD 2,301 tons

    16,513 tons from LaMorinda is unaccounted in the CalRecycle Annual Report, which was composted at Newby Island Compost Facility in Milpitas

    Orinda

    & Operated by Republic Services

    CCCSWA Cities and Services - 2011/2012 Franchise Tons

    Jurisdiction

    Municipal Solid Waste Collected by Republic Services (Blue Can)

    Recycling Collected by Waste Management (Brown Can)

    Recycling Processed by Pacific Rim

    Yard Waste Collected by Waste Management (Green Can)

    Yard Waste Processed by Republic Services

    Walnut Creek

    94,608 tons
    Danville

    38,072 tons
    Pacific Rim of Benicia, CA

    55,321 tons
    VIA Republic Service's Martinez Transfer Station

    "
    Unincorporated County Republic Services of Phoenix, AZ
    AN residential and commercial

    "19,000 tons unaccounted for in CalRecycle Annual Report ^ 19,131 tons Used as ADC at Keller Canyon Landfill, Owned & Operated by Republic Services

    Waste Management of Houston, TX


    Residential onlycommercial is open by permit

    I^T

    Waste Management
    Residential only

    Lafayette

    Moraga

    1
    V

    Orinda

    Keller Canyon Landfill Owned & Operated by Republic Services

    =i> WM's Davis Street in Alameda County

    ^k

    VIA WM'S '

    Davis Transfer Station in Oakland


    Commercial food waste is I Republic to EBMUD 1,711 tons

    ~17,000 tons * from LaMorinda is unaccounted for in CaiRecycle Annual Report, which was composted at Newby Island Compost Facility in Milpitas

    = Approximate Tons

    CCCSWA Cities and Services - 2010/2011 Franchise Tons

    Jurisdiction

    Municipal Solid Waste Collected by Republic Services (Blue Can)

    Recycling Collected by Waste Management (Brown Can)

    Recycling Processed by Pacific Rim

    Yard Waste Collected by Waste Management (Green Can)

    Yard Waste Processed by Republic Services

    Walnut Creek

    99,700 tons
    Danville

    38,678 tons
    Pacific Rim of Benicia, CA

    57,525 tons
    VIA Republic Service's Station ^T

    ~17,000 tons
    unaccounted for in CalRecycle Annual Report

    Unincorporated County

    Republic Services of Phoenix, AZ


    All residential and commercial

    Waste Management of Houston, TX


    Residential onlycommercial is open by permit

    24,813 tons
    Used as ADC at Keller Canyon Landfill, Owned & Operated by Republic Services

    Waste Management
    Residential only

    Lafayette

    Moraga

    1
    *

    ~16,000 tons lj> WM's Davis Street in Alameda County


    VIA WM's

    Orinda

    Keller Canyon Landfill, Owned & Operated by Republic Services

    Davis Transfer Station in Oakland


    Commercial food waste is | Republic to EBMUD 1,381 tons

    from LaMorinda is unaccounted for in CalRecycle Annual Report, which was composted at Newby Island Compost Facility in Milpitas

    = Approximate Tons

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