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Composting legislation with Washington County roots moves forwardBy Katherine Driessen, The Oregonian - May 2013
A bill requiring composting companies to hold a community meeting before getting approval for a facility was unanimously approved by the Senate this week and now awaits a House vote. The legislation, in part sparked by the controversial location of a composting facility near residents in North Plains, also includes more detailed steps for company meetings with local government... Nature's Needs odor monitor: Most composting odor complaints accurate, but not allBy Katherine Driessen, The Oregonian - April 2013
An odor monitor delivered mixed news this week about the Nature's Needs composting facility near North Plains: Most -- but not all -- odor complaints accurately identify the site as the source. Tom Card, an "odor expert,"was hired by the county and funded by site operator Recology to help address mounting community concern about foul smells in the area... |
Environmental impact study set for Ostrom Road proposalBy Eric Vodden, Appeal-Democrat - March 2013
Yuba County will take the lead in completing an environmental impact report on a proposal to ship trash from San Francisco to the Ostrom Road Landfill. Supervisors voted 3-1 this week to approve an agreement with San Francisco to complete the report for the Recology Green Rail Project to transfer trash to Yuba County. The report will look at the environmental effect of the proposal from the receiving station in San Francisco to the local landfill. San Francisco will work with Yuba County to complete the document, but Yuba County will be the lead agency. Recology trial heading to juryBy Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling - April 2013
In California, a whistle-blower lawsuit against Recology, a large waste management and recycling company, will be given a jury trial. In 2009, Brian McVeigh filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court alleging that Recology, which employed him as a supervisor in the Bay Area, illegally fired him in retaliation for complaining about other employees who were defrauding the state's bottle bill program. According to documents in the case, McVeigh witnessed employees overpaying customers who brought in bottles and cans at a Recology redemption center, in addition to other unscrupulous activities... |
PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULE FOR RECOLOGY'S PROPOSED 21.5% RATE HIKE IN SAN FRANCISCOTell the SF Department of Public Works that Recology already enjoys a monopoly and hundreds of millions in revenue profits as a result. Taxing hard working San Francisco residents (particularly our low-income families) is NOT acceptable.
Please attend the public hearings and/or submit your comments by May. Monday, May 20th @ City Hall, Room 408 - 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Wednesday, May 22nd @ City Hall, Room 400 - 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Written comment deadline is: Thursday, May 30th @ 2:30 PM Send written comments to: Refuse Rate Hearing Officer c/o Dept of Public Works City Hall Room 348 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place San Francisco, CA 94102 |
San Francisco Citizen Group to Fight in Court the City's Recology Waste Agreement
By Allan Gerlot, Waste Age - March 2013
A citizen group in San Francisco is preparing to argue in court that the city should reopen the bidding process on the city’s long-term waste hauling contract with Recology Inc...
A citizen group in San Francisco is preparing to argue in court that the city should reopen the bidding process on the city’s long-term waste hauling contract with Recology Inc...
Coalition Calls on San Francisco to Reopen Its Waste Hauling Bidding Process
By Territorial Disptach - March 2013
Responding to The City’s termination of 10-year agreement with Recology while naming them the “preferred alternative,” Coalition calls for new proposals and mandatory EIR Study – hearing set for CA Superior Court...
Responding to The City’s termination of 10-year agreement with Recology while naming them the “preferred alternative,” Coalition calls for new proposals and mandatory EIR Study – hearing set for CA Superior Court...
The garbage rate hike
By SFBay Guardian - March 2013
Yes, your garbage rates are going up. As much as 23 percent, maybe. That’s what Recology, the local trash monopoly, announced March 15...
Yes, your garbage rates are going up. As much as 23 percent, maybe. That’s what Recology, the local trash monopoly, announced March 15...
SF's Trash Collection Company Wants to Raise Your Rates by 21.5%
By Bay City News, SFAppeal.com - March 2013
San Francisco garbage company Recology is asking to increase rates for residential customers by 21.5 percent later this year to cover the cost of increased recycling and composting, city officials said today...
San Francisco garbage company Recology is asking to increase rates for residential customers by 21.5 percent later this year to cover the cost of increased recycling and composting, city officials said today...
Recology wants to hike trash collecting fees
By SFBay.com - March 2013
One man’s trash is another business’s treasure. Recology is doing some serious trash talking and may leave many San Francisco residents with a heavier price to pay...
One man’s trash is another business’s treasure. Recology is doing some serious trash talking and may leave many San Francisco residents with a heavier price to pay...
The Noses Have Spoken, Compost Facility Too Stinky
By The Daily Astorian - March 2013
Odor experts were at the composting facility that deals with Portland's food scraps and yard debris Thursday. Strong smells from the Recology facility in North Plains mean it will stop taking commercial food waste. The compost facility was set up to take food waste about a year ago -- as an experimental franchise...
Odor experts were at the composting facility that deals with Portland's food scraps and yard debris Thursday. Strong smells from the Recology facility in North Plains mean it will stop taking commercial food waste. The compost facility was set up to take food waste about a year ago -- as an experimental franchise...
Foul Odor Forces Organics Elsewhere
Recology site in Oregon must stop accepting commercial food waste
By Kerri Jansen, Waste & Recycling - February 2013
A controversial composting operation near North Plains, Ore., can continue to operate but must stop accepting commercial food waste, thought to be the source of odor problems that spawned more than 1,500 complaints over the past couple of years....
A controversial composting operation near North Plains, Ore., can continue to operate but must stop accepting commercial food waste, thought to be the source of odor problems that spawned more than 1,500 complaints over the past couple of years....
Recology whistle-blower suit reinstated
By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle - February 2013
A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit by a former Recology employee who says San Francisco's trash-collecting company made fraudulent overpayments in its recycling program and fired him for reporting it to superiors and police...
A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit by a former Recology employee who says San Francisco's trash-collecting company made fraudulent overpayments in its recycling program and fired him for reporting it to superiors and police...
SF's 10-year Recology trash deal dumped
By Neil Riley, SFGate - January 2013
With only a few years to go until San Francisco needs a new landfill for its waste, the city has dumped an agreement with trash company Recology in the face of multiple lawsuits...
With only a few years to go until San Francisco needs a new landfill for its waste, the city has dumped an agreement with trash company Recology in the face of multiple lawsuits...
Recology trash deal dumped by San Francisco
By San Francisco Business Journal - January 2013
San Francisco has revoked a 10-year, $112 million contract with the waste-hauling company Recology Inc. after three lawsuits were filed, the Chronicle reports...
San Francisco has revoked a 10-year, $112 million contract with the waste-hauling company Recology Inc. after three lawsuits were filed, the Chronicle reports...
San Francisco's latest trashy drama
By Christopher Thomas, SFBay - January 2013
We all know bodies haven’t been buried in San Francisco for like a hundred years. Hence Colma, the happeningest place to go when you die. But what happens to your trash, another huge space-suck? Like many things in The City, garbage is a process full of politics and intrigue. And it stinks...
We all know bodies haven’t been buried in San Francisco for like a hundred years. Hence Colma, the happeningest place to go when you die. But what happens to your trash, another huge space-suck? Like many things in The City, garbage is a process full of politics and intrigue. And it stinks...
Recology - A Brief Snapshot
Whistleblower: San Francisco Garbage Company Defrauded State of California Out of Millions
By Luke Thomas, FogCityJournal.com - May 30, 2012
A former employee turned whistleblower leveled serious charges of fraud, embezzlement and corruption Thursday against San Francisco-based Recology, accusing the unregulated garbage collection monopoly of bilking the State of California and taxpayers out of millions of dollars...
A former employee turned whistleblower leveled serious charges of fraud, embezzlement and corruption Thursday against San Francisco-based Recology, accusing the unregulated garbage collection monopoly of bilking the State of California and taxpayers out of millions of dollars...
San Francisco Prepares for Recology To Raise Garbage Rates
SF Appeal - May 2012
City officials are preparing for garbage-collection giant Recology to raise prices charged to its customers -- after those customers are asked in the June 5 election to open up to bid San Francisco's garbage-collection contract for the first time in 80 years...
City officials are preparing for garbage-collection giant Recology to raise prices charged to its customers -- after those customers are asked in the June 5 election to open up to bid San Francisco's garbage-collection contract for the first time in 80 years...
Fiona Ma's vampire garbage bill
By Tim Redmond, Bay Guardian - August 2012
State Assembly Member Fiona Ma, who wants tokeep 15-year-olds in prison for life, has been trying for a while now to help the big garbage outfits, Recology and Waste Management Inc.,avoid running into local laws that could block their use of landfills. So far, she hasn't been able to get it through the normal commitee process...
State Assembly Member Fiona Ma, who wants tokeep 15-year-olds in prison for life, has been trying for a while now to help the big garbage outfits, Recology and Waste Management Inc.,avoid running into local laws that could block their use of landfills. So far, she hasn't been able to get it through the normal commitee process...
Law aims to quell trash smell
Vacaville Reporter - April 22, 2011
California’s organic compost facilities aren’t passing the smell test. That’s why proposed legislation is aimed at changing the smelly problem that wafts through the air and into neighboring homes...
California’s organic compost facilities aren’t passing the smell test. That’s why proposed legislation is aimed at changing the smelly problem that wafts through the air and into neighboring homes...
Locals worried that asbestos is escaping Recology's Hay Road landfill
Mesothelioma.com - January 22, 2011
The Recology Hay Road landfill, located in Vacaville, California, has long been a location for asbestos disposal. However, some locals have been questioning Recology’s integrity and ability to dispose of asbestos properly...
The Recology Hay Road landfill, located in Vacaville, California, has long been a location for asbestos disposal. However, some locals have been questioning Recology’s integrity and ability to dispose of asbestos properly...
Defendants in S.B. County bribery case lose appeal
by Imran Ghori, The Press-Enterprise, December 2007
Two key figures and a billboard company in San Bernardino County's largest bribery and corruption scandal have lost their bid to have a state appellate court overturn muitimillion-dollar judgments against them ...
Two key figures and a billboard company in San Bernardino County's largest bribery and corruption scandal have lost their bid to have a state appellate court overturn muitimillion-dollar judgments against them ...
San Francisco looks to dump on Yuba County
by Ben van der Meer, Appeal-Democrat, July 2009
Yuba County could eventually be getting the trash San Francisco can't do anything else with, depending on a decision expected later this year by that county's Board of Supervisors. Recology, a San Francisco-based company formerly known as NorCalWaste, is bidding for a contract that would include taking about 5 million tons of San Francisco trash to the landfill on Ostrom Road east of Wheatland, beginning in 2015...
Yuba County could eventually be getting the trash San Francisco can't do anything else with, depending on a decision expected later this year by that county's Board of Supervisors. Recology, a San Francisco-based company formerly known as NorCalWaste, is bidding for a contract that would include taking about 5 million tons of San Francisco trash to the landfill on Ostrom Road east of Wheatland, beginning in 2015...
San Mateo garbage rates rising 23 percent
By Mike Rosenberg, Mercury News - March 2011
Residents and businesses will soon pay more for their new trash pickup service. Starting on April 1, bills for garbage, recycling and compost pickup in San Mateo will rise 23.3 percent. The San Mateo City Council will finalize the increase at its meeting Monday night, barring an improbable last-minute deluge of residents protesting the rate hike...
Residents and businesses will soon pay more for their new trash pickup service. Starting on April 1, bills for garbage, recycling and compost pickup in San Mateo will rise 23.3 percent. The San Mateo City Council will finalize the increase at its meeting Monday night, barring an improbable last-minute deluge of residents protesting the rate hike...
Recology truck tank ruptures, spills diesel fuel into storm drain
By Laura Dudnick, Belmont Patch - January 2011
A San Mateo County Recology truck ruptured its tank this morning, spilling about 40 to 50 gallons of diesel fuel into a storm drain in Belmont, fire officials said...
A San Mateo County Recology truck ruptured its tank this morning, spilling about 40 to 50 gallons of diesel fuel into a storm drain in Belmont, fire officials said...
Contractor works hard to keep its monopoly.
by Lance Williams and Scott Winokur, San Francisco Examiner
Norcal has spent millions, called in favors through 55 years of hauling The City's trash
In the last four years, San Francisco's trash company has spent more than $1.28 million to persuade politicians and voters not to alter or end its 55-year-old monopoly on collecting The City's garbage . . .
Norcal has spent millions, called in favors through 55 years of hauling The City's trash
In the last four years, San Francisco's trash company has spent more than $1.28 million to persuade politicians and voters not to alter or end its 55-year-old monopoly on collecting The City's garbage . . .
Judge Says San Francisco Supervisors Overstepped in Giving Contract to Norcal
Waste Business Journal, December 2007
A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled that the city's Board of Supervisors overstepped its authority when it rejected a multiyear sludge disposal contract with S&S Trucking and instead awarded it to hometown favorite Norcal Waste Systems . . .
A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled that the city's Board of Supervisors overstepped its authority when it rejected a multiyear sludge disposal contract with S&S Trucking and instead awarded it to hometown favorite Norcal Waste Systems . . .
NorCal Waste loses S.J. contract amid charges
CBS 5, August 2006
SAN JOSE (AP) - Norcal Waste Systems Inc. lost a lucrative garbage-hauling contract with the city of San Jose as the company faces conspiracy and bribery charges for allegedly cutting a backroom deal with the city's mayor . . .
SAN JOSE (AP) - Norcal Waste Systems Inc. lost a lucrative garbage-hauling contract with the city of San Jose as the company faces conspiracy and bribery charges for allegedly cutting a backroom deal with the city's mayor . . .
Norcal implicated in San Jose mayoral scandal
Waste Age, June 2006
SAN JOSE, CALIF., Mayor Ron Gonzales was arraigned Monday on six felony charges including bribery, conspiracy to misappropriate public money and falsification of public records. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Gonzales and his budget aide, Joe Guerra, are accused of illegally helping San Francisco-based Norcal Waste Systems win a contract with the city . . .
SAN JOSE, CALIF., Mayor Ron Gonzales was arraigned Monday on six felony charges including bribery, conspiracy to misappropriate public money and falsification of public records. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Gonzales and his budget aide, Joe Guerra, are accused of illegally helping San Francisco-based Norcal Waste Systems win a contract with the city . . .
Who is Recology (aka NorCal Waste Systems)?
It's a good question! Recology, in order to hide from their past corruption, recently changed its name from NorCal Waste Systems. Recology is based in San Francisco and enjoys close ties to such luminaries as Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. It is also one of the fastest growing waste corporations in the United States. But as this website reveals, Recology (aka NorCal Waste Systems) is a billion dollar corporation built on a history of corruption, back room dealings, leaking landfills, and community price-gouging.
But don't just take our word for it. Explore this website, read its articles and decide for yourself if Recology is right for your community.
It's a good question! Recology, in order to hide from their past corruption, recently changed its name from NorCal Waste Systems. Recology is based in San Francisco and enjoys close ties to such luminaries as Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. It is also one of the fastest growing waste corporations in the United States. But as this website reveals, Recology (aka NorCal Waste Systems) is a billion dollar corporation built on a history of corruption, back room dealings, leaking landfills, and community price-gouging.
But don't just take our word for it. Explore this website, read its articles and decide for yourself if Recology is right for your community.
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Welcome to "The Trash On Recology"
Recology is one of the largest garbage collection and landfill operators in the State of California. "The Trash On Recology" was formed to exploit the dealings of this company who, in 2009, changed its name to "Recology" to hide from the tainted reputation of NorCal Waste. It is important for the public to know the truth behind one of the City's most influential businesses.
