Sunday, October 7, 2007

No Twinkie Wrappers at the Moscone Center

When I go to Moscone Center in November, it will be clean and green:

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom...announced efforts by the Moscone Center, one of the busiest convention, trade and meeting facilities in the nation, to produce zero waste food and beverage events and lead the industry in environmentally friendly practices.

SMG, the company that partners with the City and County of San Francisco to run the Moscone Center, said it replaced all disposable food and beverage products with biodegradable items....

Food Product Disposal: Savor...Catering by SMG donates a large portion of the Moscone’s unused food to community services such as Food Runners and Glide Memorial Church. All of Moscone’s kitchen-generated food waste is separated for composting. Any kitchen-generated waste, such as bottles and cans, is separated for recycling. Food waste generated from seated events is separated for composting....

At Oracle OpenWorld in November, Moscone Center will divert about 60,000 box lunch containers from landfill.


P.S. for those who read my blog post titles: the "Twinkie defense" is an urban legend. It turns out that the Twinkie consumption was an indicator showing that Dan White was depressed.

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