the website. there it is at areas started closing landfills and shipping trash to more remote regions. san francisco hauls its trash about 50 miles across the bay... new york city trash is trucked out of state... to new jersey, pennsylvania... even as far away as ohio virginia and south carolina. and until recently, america was doing a brisk business, selling its scrap to china... but now, even china is leery. >> time's have changed... the awareness of the public is much greater about health issues now than it was when newby began. >> newby is one of the largest active landfills on the shores of san francisco bay. >> i don't think it should smell like this in america... >> the city of milpitas filed a lawsuit against san jose over environmental impacts caused by the landfill. the bay area air quality management district, which has received 2,000 newby landfill odor complaints has issued newby island five public nuisance violations related to odor issues. according to a district spokesman, they are still negotiating the fines. >> trash is a big business and unfortunately it's a smelly bu

. >> what's the out put of this facility? >> landfills overflowing. >> it just smells so bad. >> but some of our trash ... ... could be recycled. >> why isn't it being done more? >> now techknow investigates: the problem with plastic. >> they throw in the street or throw it in the ocean. >> we have the technology... >> i can't touch it? >> no you can't. >> so why don't we use it? >> so you don't know what happens to the plastics you recover? >> dr shini somara is a mechanical engineer. dr. crystal dilworth is a neuroscientist. >> we're standing by a pipe marked heated sludge. >> and i'm phil torres, i'm an entomologist. >> that's our team ... >> it smells very organic. >> now lets do some science. >> hey guys, welcome to techknow. i'm phil torres and today we are going to be talking trash and a ton of it. joining me with this trash talk dr. crystal dilworth, dr. shini somara. now first up the water bottle, by some estimates here in the u.s. we use 50 billion of these every year and myth number one is that this is going to be recycled. >>

as pokes know, the contract for the ultimate landfill started in 1987. it expires, when the cumulative total of 15 million tons of waste, has been generated and land filled, the department has done an estimate of when we believe we will reach that 15 million tons based on the department's calculations we believe the end of this year or very early january 2016 we will have exhausted our capacity at the ultimate facility. as you may recall in anticipation of this contract ending the department went through a comprehensive, competitive bid process, which resulted in identification of alternative site. and ecologies, hay road, as a destination for san francisco's solid waste, the presentation you will hear today, and the contract you hear before you will provide you with an understanding of what is new in the contract specifically second provide you with the overall next steps in time line associated with moving this contract forward, as you can imagine, the department doesn't enter the contract on it's own, it needs authorzation with the board of supervisors

is the back up landfill, in order to do that san francisco decided to do an environmental review for that project, that is basically looking at the halling, recology's hay road -- all of san francisco would fall within that permit. so the issue is looking at the impact of the transportation starting in may of last year, the city employed a consultant team an expert team from the environmental science associations, and they did the analysis, planning we looked at the information they had and determined that a negative declaration should be suitable what is called a [inaudible] negative declaration, is reviewed by planning, then they decided that was sufficient. and as the process goes planning published that that was the beginning of march that provided for a 30 day common period, there is one appeal on that then the planning commission then acts on that appeal and last thursday the planning commission held a hearing on that appeal, they made a decision, the negative declaration is suitable, was appropriate for the project so they have what is called upheld the appeal. now what happen

for reference the key thing in the major projects residential investment & infrastructure and the landfill for the transit center over 2 heed million dollars you'll see that and again 70 percent of budget for affordable housing and our budget through the next 5 years really comprised about 1/3rd of the mayors plan to produce affordable housing and our role is land use and financing moving to slide 4 and hunters point candle stick and diving into the work program you see significant ramp ups abuse of the residential and commercial our included but not limited to and design authority for the demonstration on hunters point hilltop and the alice griffith rebuild through hope sf and our development partner funds in addition to property tax increments we have on reserve and importantly there are 3 rfps two in candle stick and the master developer and lennar removed candle stick stadium for a mixed use mixed income retailed center we want to keep pace with the market rate development and the land use approval and importantly we will this year for the first time in 10 years have another property t

were going to have a challenge ahead of us to locate her body. >> after five days of searching at the landfillnvestigators got a break. they found the legs and lower torso of an adult female. they also found bloody pieces of carpet and a blood-stained sweatshirt. >> it was a sweatshirt that had graphics on it of sign language. we knew right there there was a tie to the deaf community. >> testing proved it was darlene's blood on the sweatshirt, but someone else's dna was found inside the sweatshirt. >> i took cuttings from the inside of the sweatshirt hoping that one of them had transferred enough dna or enough skin cells inside to get a full profile. and i was fortunate and did get a profile, and that matched daphne wright. >> by being able to put daphne wright's dna inside a sweatshirt that had darlene vandergiesen's blood and tissue on the front of it was extremely important. >> the sweatshirt was a critical item in this case because it was one of the few pieces that tied both victim and suspect together. >> 25 miles away, across the border in minnesota, a highway worker found darlene's tors

. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give the items to goodwill it comes from us selling those items in our stores with you that process helps to divert things it from local landfills if the san francisco area. >> and the textile box will take it one step further helping 1230 get to zero waste. >> it brings the donation opportunity to the donor making that as convenient as possible it is one of the solutions to make sure we're capturing all the value in the textiles. >> with the help of good will and ot

. >> he sets a target of eliminating all the city's waste going to landfills. l decide if they are required to send food to the composting facility. bill: i love when an idea is so good the government has to force you to do it clicks that is what he added. just three main facilities that can handle this amount of waste and not too many other private businesses. bill: we have a garden. the idea idea of putting another burden on restaurants in manhattan. >> excessive but they are creating waste. they got too much of it and have been filling the landfills in brooklyn and queens and are overflowing. what kind of precedent does is set going forward. bill: he ought to be worried about the rat problem first. ♪ only to be freed two days later to carry out his death wish. >> why do they released the release the torment of man so soon? ♪ ♪ >> this is a fox 29 news update. >> hi, everyone, i'm fox 29's chief meteorologist scott williams. grab an umbrella. scattered showers throughout the day on your friday. especially the first part of the day. temperatures are going to be

shape or color but they are just as delicious and nutritious ask sometimes thosen up going to the landfillause there isn't someone there to buy them. that's what we are capturing the unwanted apple no one paid attention to before. >> there won't be appear he is when the program launches in july, but there will be plums pairs and bell peppers to start. the i am perfect produce will be sold for 30% off, and many shoppers seem to think it will be a pretty sweet deal. >> i have a family of five children, so i kind of always budget when i cannot. i think it's a great way, especially it saves -- we aren't wasting food. >> others say they will pass. >> not interested? >> no. >> bumpy lumpy or off colored produce may not be everyone's top pick, but meg said she's confident many will put it to a taste test. >> with he had to teach our consumers, they can trust organic, they can trust local and i think that will make it easier to have this conversation with our customers about i am perfect. >> in sacramento abc7 news. >> san francisco boasts some. the highest presence in home price bus it's not amer

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the cruise ship terminal is hundred and $15 million project the port contributed from debt and the landfillnd 25 percent that is $30 million of other sources to accomplish that project and here we have politic ridicule from the crews passengers and jobs e we're proud we accomplished that on primary on our own count on the smaller scale other rehabilitation the good example you've approved forever the historic pier 31 it was red-tagged and unable to be used we're spending $6 million to open that up for pdr and are shortage use avoiding more significant investment needs this will generate $750 million for the port. >> and when you see us back in the fall with the supplemental appropriation bill you'll see more and more those kinds of projects the port is in dialog with the waterfront use plan it is not updated in 17 years we completed a review in 2014 where i showed showed you the steps we're beginning to discuss with the public the view and the visions to the next way to use the piers not yet development the plan we adopted previously looked at many of the issues but we have any challenges w

lehner says there's another problem. >> now food is the largest material in our landfills. of all the things that are in our dumps. the biggest portion is food. when it rots it emits methane, which is a very potent green house gas, maybe 30 or 100 times more potent than carbon dioxide. >> reporter: but there are some solutions on the horizon, ocean mist and h.m.c. farms donate some of their less than perfect produce to the california food banks. last year ocean mist sent nearly 400,000 pounds of broccoli and cauliflower and some of it ends up here at this warehouse in san francisco, it can store seven square miles of produce. paul ash oversees the operation. he says in the last decade the california association of food banks has doubled the amount of produce it distributes. >> this year, we hope to grow the california farm to family program by over 70 million pounds. and part of that will mean more produce for california food banks. but we hope part of it also means we'll be able to push this eastward to other food banks. >> reporter: the food banks farm to family program ha

approach, a lot of me thinks, that the waste we generate in the city, we should bring it to the local landfill rather than transportation -- hay road is the next one out. at the same time i think the rate payers shouldn't pay more than necessary, and we should minimize other environmental impacts, so eyou get into weighting, different criteria and coming up with the best solution with admittedly, all bad solutions, we shouldn't be sleping things to landfills, that's where we are right now, hopefully, we will get to 0 waste and not have substantial contribution to landfill maybe residual, maybe not that. this is to repurr pose -- that's a big plan that started environmental review will you be hearing more about that i'm sure in the future. the only real concerns i have with the agreement as i read through it are in a couple of sections, that suggest that variety city actors, in the department environment or dpw should recommend and approve certain rate applications, or components of the rate application, i think that might interfere with the powers and duties of the initiative ordinance, i thin

. >> the study coincides with others says it damages the landfill. e who surveyed, 50% knew there was an impact on the environment. >>> mark tamayo is in the weather center. we're praising for a heatup. >> we're trending in the direction. get ready for tomorrow. we'll have a few triple digits across parts of the bay area. here is our live camera. mostly sunny skies over a good portion region. a left over patch of fog that will melt away in the short term over the next few hours. as it does, temperatures inland will be warming up dramatically. take a look as you can see the fog pattern a few patches near parts of the san mateo county coastline. a lot of sunshine for san francisco over oakland, san rafael and out toward parts of the east bay and the east bay for the inland neighborhoods already showing you some lower 80s out toward concord, livermore. those two spots will approach the 90-degree mark. san francisco's 62. we have the microclimates out there. sore in the upper 70s -- soesh -- santa rosa in the 70s. high pressure offshore strengthens with t

partners to work as we move forward on this grant, we're excited to add to the over 25 million pounds, we divert from landfill each year and growing, the wonderingful thing about goodwill and our brand, people know us, bring us our thing thing, now we can amplify and promote it we are important fate, to partner with businesses and organizations, san francisco, is a leader the u.s. commissioner should be so proud to be a part of this as we are. everything is about being thought partners doing this better pushing hard and recycling resources, we're grateful we appreciate it we look forward to partnering with all in the audience thank you. [applause] >> president arce commissioners, director raphael, i'm blare rand l for the environment, we're honored to be selected to be recommended for support. far gardens, is a demonstration environment, on 7th street and sunset the land is owned by the san francisco public utilities, commission, we have partnered with them we're honors to be partner with the department for many years working towards 0 waste, what we come in is key to behavior change or key to 0 waste is beha

they are working to keep all composite material out of the landfills. have not said what the changes will include but said they will apply to home owners and business owners. >> the abc morning news continues at 6:0 with the top stories. >> including getting part about back-to-school shopping and the trick parents need to know to plan ahead before summerrens. >> being a super absolute on social media and where a study reveals you should look to see what your kids are really up to. >> bart riders might finally find relief when nature calls with more detail on why officials are consideration re-opening the underground bathrooms for the first time in 14 careers. >> more weather and traffic all morning and a new way to keep you updated looking at lake tahoe, crystal clear and the lake could just be the cooling picture we need as we get ready for the heat wave. we have weather and traffic during the commercial female announcer: when you see this truck, it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight because they went to sleep train's ticket to tem

the airline would give $30 million to develop jet fuel from mun tall solid waste, garbage from the landfill >>> the toughest day for stocks on monday, the dow we will 370 points on worries over greece. future calling for green arrows this morning. >>> the spacex explosion on sunday has some lawmakers wondering if it's a good idea to ban russian rockets after all. there has been a push in congress to say no to russian rockets used in rockets. elon musk had been pushing for that ban because it benefits his business. critics of russian rockets have been pushing as part of sanctions. russians send their own missions to the international space station though lately they have had trouble, too. maybe if american rockets are going to blow up we seed russian rockets. >> how many decades removed from the cold war. >> can he wo rent an international space station. >> that is true. >>> right now as to that explosion that scott mentioned elon musk says he still does not know what caused the company's rocket to blow up on sunday and it might take a little while to try and figure it out. musk tweeted out

those are the costs of taking away the dirt itself dirt itself costs 50 to $60,000 to haul the dirt to landfills because the contemplated dirt that's the cost of the equipment and putting it all in i don't know what portion of that is just the removal costs the portion is the install it is all inclusive and putting it includes the canopy work the pump and the fuel island and work not only did tank part it is highly variable. >> i know of the stations if they're in operation there not removing the tanks the one on/13 has a maid some improvements but maybe not as extensive as auditors thank you that answered my questions i have a couple of additional comments i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say you know it an ideal world you'll be able to keep the repair facility there and still i have no problems are the convenience store or upgrading the station it will be a big improvement they've lessened their hours and sound like a big improvement still a gas station so it is basically that is what it is going to be just because it has a larger convenience store didn't mean it will attract more

food makes up more than 20% of what's in the landfill. >> a lot of pizza pies piled high there. >>> thisl hand catches -- with the baby right there -- a great barehanded catch at dodgers/cubs game last night. no big deal, right? but if you look closer, not only was he holding a paby, he was feeding the 7-month-old baby. multitasker. >> is that a bottle of milk? >> looks that way. dad say he was protecting his child and the ball was, kind of fell into his hands. >> he smashed that out of the air, impressive. >> i don't think he'd go like this. >> the heisman. he got it. well done, sir. time now 6:26. hacksaw, blades, drill bits stuffed into ground beef. stunning, new details how a prison worker help two killers escape from a new york prison. >> update to breaking news in the east bay. shooting along the busy bay area freeway, the second in the area in just a matter of days. what you need to know if that's on your commute. female announcer: when you see this truck, it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight because they went to sleep train's ticket to tempur-pedic event. fi

food makes up more than 20% of what's in the landfill. >>> despite warnings and thousands of poison controlls, kids are still getting sick from eating those liquid laundry packets and detergent packets. since 2012, 32,000 calls were made to poison control related to the packets, involving children age 5 and under. experts want to reiterate the importance of keeping those laundry pods and detergent pods inside their clothes containers and out of the reach of small children. earlier this year, a bay area congresswoman, jackie spear, introduced a bill forcing those types of detergents to be packaged differently. >>> update to breaking news. investigators are looking into a shooting along a busy bay area highway, the second on the same highway since saturday. "today in the bay's" bob redell joins is live from the east bay, a live report next. >>> first a live look outside at the bay bridge. traffic moving along nicely. some tiny cracks uncovered in the rods of the bridge, raising questions this morning. that report after the break. =amopen= =kris/vo= breaking news ... bullet-holes, and blood. t

. >> well, bottled water, a lot of environmentalists say -- the plastic issue, the landfill issue, justthe tap. this bottle is like as old as my son. it works great. [laughter] >> i live in marin county and you feel like you have to apologize to people if you don't have your renal container. >> we'll con-- have your reasonable water container. >>> this name salex, it's taken off. let's go to salex for traffic. >> apparently the name is -- has stuck. >> there it is. >> it's stuck at the bottom of the describe. that means it's officially, i guess. salex savidge. kind of a tongue twister. but i'll take it. >> alex? >> yes? >> i want credit for starting that. i am the one who called you salex today, lack of coffee. >> you will get full credit. [laughter] >> all of the credit. here's what things look like in the east bay. that's the -- that traffic going east to west heading toward the maze ans and on the toll plaza. there was a crash involving a motorcyclist. that seems to have bogged things down a little bit this morning. let me take you out here over the hill and that is what -- that's wh

. >> many of the items that we have at talley table if we hadn't gone out to collect them or if other food recovery groups hadn't gone out to collect hem they end up in compost or landfills >> the former president of trader joe's says that the goal of the store is to help income families realize the benefit of fresh food. right now there's only one store in massachusetts, no word on when it will expand. certainly a lot of people watching that model. >> just an absolutely brilliant idea, especially if you're going to be cooking a soon after you buy your food. >>> strike averted. santa clara county reaches an agreement with its workers to keep them on the job just hours before they were going to walk off. what we know about that deal it next. >>> and a coast guard helicopter crashes during a training mission at sfo just ten feet from the ground. we'll talk about what went wrong there. >>> and a live look outside, that is the a and p center in san jose. we will have much more on your weather forecast right after this. >>> breaking news. with just hours to spare the south bay's biggest union coming to on agreement with santa clara county. what that means for you if you have

. >> it was built in 1942 on land that until the 1930s, had been used as a giant landfill, known as the silver city dump. recent tests from firms hired by school officials found there are dangerous levels of arsenic and zincm lead . and others contaminating soils to 15 feet down, as far down as they were taken. a louisiana representative, a booker t graduate was stunned to learn the recovery oversees most schools was planning to rebuild the school after removing some toxic soil. >> it should be a crime for us to put area when we know the toxic matters are there. >> reporter: there's no law on building schools on a land fix or known toxic site. toxins at the school site, including lead, for example, were found at concentrations 24 times higher than e.p.a. standards for playgrounds. the school district plans to remove the top three feet of contaminated soil. then install a geotech style barrier to seal the soil and lay down 6 feet of clean soil. >> this is not a risk elimination plan, it's risk reduction plan. >> they are familiar with soil, remedition projects and the school district's p

cobenefits from the recommended projects for example, you will see sf food bank they not only feed hungry people in sachlt frachlt, they capture edible food that is december sinned to landfill, through the food recovery program. this is a fanistic program, this is the second year we're funding it in a row. the conservation san francisco -- for youth specifically, they're doing tremendous work they have evented in san francisco, they divert compost and recycling at i vents, throughout the city. will you see them at events in san francisco, s

organic in sourcing locally but they're struggling to avoid a ground a lot the maxim of the 20 percent of what is in landfillng to the environment protection agency. >>mark: they hope the free option would rise you to pay $10 a month for a lot access plan with on the man playback without at they're giving you a chance to on send e-mail them to give the option to set a time delay between five and 32nd after you hit the send button still had no information on the house fire them left one man injured in the east bank will cause this fire. >>james: were alive at the alameda county fair last segment would talk about the ride of the, was waking up coming up next to talk what the food the other half of the common experience. >>mark: caviar eyes from the opening bell on wall street on this wednesday morning the dollar figures are lower they're trying to reach a deal with the european union and its creditor is trying to avoid the fault does not or concerns once again about receiving the european union is a 50 a delicate the dow just above the 18,000 marks the contra costa a share to par in investigating another shoo