Today’s SF Examiner has an article about an operation that’s trucking food waste from restaurants in San Francisco not to the landfill, but to a giant composting plant in Vacaville.

This is a creative way to keep landfills from filling as quickly (and could alleviate, or delay, problems such as that posed by Santa Cruz County’s need for a new site) and, as it turns out, also provides real and measurable benefits to the agricultural and other operations using the finished compost.

– Kathy