For the commercial sector, one position is focused
on construction and demolition waste, working
with builders and contractors to deconstruct and
recycle building materials at Recology’s MRF in San
Francisco. Two positions work to help companies fully
adopt the Fantastic 3 program and ensure they are in
compliance with San Francisco’s mandatory recycling
and composting law. Out of 18,000 to 20,000
commercial accounts, approximately 80 percent
of companies were separating their organics by
2012; SFE’s focus is now the remaining 20 percent.
The last commercial role is focused on policy initiatives
such as Extended Producer Responsibility, statewide
legislation, or ballot measures.
In the residential sector, all buildings with fewer than
six units separate their organics for collection, as do
most of the large-scale multi-family dwellings (7,200