1.0 link 219578 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gavin-newsom/the-nations-most-ambitiou_b_219578.html Composting will prevent tons of material from going to the landfill, create healthy soil for our local farms and help us fight global warming.

Today at the Farmer's Market in front of San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building I am signing the nation's first mandatory composting law. It's the most comprehensive recycling and composting legislation in the country and the first to require residents and businesses to compost food scraps.

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