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For more information, call Recology's customer service line at (530) 885-3735.
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Recology says it has signed contracts with 200 vineyards to use compost from San Francisco and other Bay Area cities—which typically is made of food scraps and plant waste such as lawn clippings—as fertilizer for crops.
San Francisco Garbage Helps Make Vineyards Thrive Jim Carlton 2011
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Napa County's Chateau Montelena Winery, which helped put California wine on the map when its Chardonnay beat out French counterparts in a 1976 competition, was one of the earliest to use Recology's compost starting in the late 1990s, said vineyard manager Dave Vella.
San Francisco Garbage Helps Make Vineyards Thrive Jim Carlton 2011
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For example, the soil may be lacking in calcium carbonate, Mr. Shaffer said, so he asks Recology's managers at the Vacaville plant to blend oyster shells containing the mineral into the compost.
San Francisco Garbage Helps Make Vineyards Thrive Jim Carlton 2011
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The set-up, which began in 2000 and has steadily grown, gives Recology a way to use San Francisco's growing piles of compost while bringing in added revenue.
San Francisco Garbage Helps Make Vineyards Thrive Jim Carlton 2011
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Sales of compost, in turn, help San Francisco-based Recology offset the cost of running its plant in Vacaville, one of eight compost facilities Recology operates in California and Oregon.
San Francisco Garbage Helps Make Vineyards Thrive Jim Carlton 2011
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Recology, the city's collection agency, now hauls more than 600 tons of organic waste to a composting facility each day.
The Urban Quest for 'Zero' Waste David Ferry 2011
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This time of year, about 20 tractor-trailer trucks carrying up to 50 cubic yards of compost each head daily to the vineyards from Recology's compost plant in Vacaville, said manager Greg Pryor.
San Francisco Garbage Helps Make Vineyards Thrive Jim Carlton 2011
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In an effort to "close the loop," Recology sells the certified organic compost materials.
The Urban Quest for 'Zero' Waste David Ferry 2011
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Recology Inc., the city's trash hauler, is on pace this year to ship a record amount of compost that it partly derives from San Francisco waste to vineyards in Napa and Sonoma counties, among other places.
San Francisco Garbage Helps Make Vineyards Thrive Jim Carlton 2011
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