MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: Early this Fall, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders announced some good news about the greening of our city. We now recycle about 64 percent of our garbage. That is a huge amount of waste that is not going into the landfill. And there are plans to do even more. The landfill is expanding its Greenery section to accommodate more recycled food scraps. Organizations that produce tons of food waste are on the waiting list to dump the remains of yesterday's meals into this special section of the landfill. And local gardeners and growers are anxious to pick up the compost that will be created at the Miramar Greenery.
Guests:
Stephen Grealy, Deputy Director of the City of San Diego's Waste Reduction and Disposal Division.
Steve Lincoln, Sustainability Coordinator of SDSU Recycling.
Krista Mays, Sustainability Manager of Housing, Dining and Hospitality at UCSD.
