By Adam Teitelbaum, KALW Crosscurrents
“The goal is zero waste by 2020, and we think that is an achievable goal.”
Those words from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2009 promoted the idea of diverting all waste from landfills. It was actually an official resolution passed in the Willie Brown administration. Now, in 2014, Mayor Ed Lee claims the city has reached 80 percent diversion. Whether or not that debatable claim is true, there is a long way to go to reach the goal. So what is it going to take to achieve zero waste by 2020?
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