California Refuse separation scores of 10 Chain Grocery stores Menlo Park Mountain View Palo Alto California Primary:
San Mateo County California
Santa Clara county California
Secondarily:
San Francisco County California
Marin county California
Alameda county California
STARBUCKS BY FAR WORST ABUSER of
FAILURE TO SEPARATE TRASH GREEN WASTE RECYCLE
Safeway Sharon Heights is good about sorting their trash from recycling from green waste 98%-99% re: 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 decade
Safeway El Camino Menlo Park is perhaps good
95% but not stellar. Re 2000 2010 2020 decade
I spoke to a female BFI analyst investigator here and appraised her of my data
Later 2010 decade
though I do not feel I was well received and I do not feel BFI places this as a high priority. I suspect this is because China no longer respects or receive any of our recycling plastic as we are too dirty so their hands are tied.
I suspect BFI and other entities within refuse industry do not care much about plastics and green waste because they just feed it all to the pigs hogs anyway and there is insufficient public awareness of this BPA BPS PFOA PFOAS plastic input into our PORQUINE food stream
Safeway Middlefield at Colorado Palo Alto is poor <90%
Safeway Sequoia Station Redwood City may be OK not sure lack data re 2010 decade
Safeway San Antonio Rd. at El Camino Mountain View insufficient data but seems orderly above 95% proper separation re: 2023
Whole Foods El Camino Roosevelt Redwood City May be ok re: 2000 2010 decades
Whole Foods Homer at Emerson Palo Alto OK ish to pretty good 98% re 2010 2020 decades
Trader Joe's middle Avenue Menlo Park ok ish
Re: 1990 2000 2010 decades
Trader Joe's Town & Country Village Palo Alto Excellent 99% re: 2010 2020 decades
Trader Joe's San Antonio Rd. at El Camino Mountain View pretty good 98-99% ? Re 2023
Starbucks Sharon Heights
325 Sharon Park Drive Menlo Park
is Dismal about separation 90%
Re: 2010 2020 decades
Starbucks Alameda at Ave Ave. Menlo Park is poor about separation re: 2010 2020 decades
Starbucks at numerous locations in nine SF Bay Area CA counties I have absorbed have been poor at 90% proper separation re: 2010 2020 decades
Starbucks routinely is a magnitude of order worse than any grocery chain in SF Bay Area CA
re: separation of refuse recycling green waste
This is a 40 year study
Coulda Woulda Shoulda
Could I would should've posted these results on dumpster.org but I let go that domain sadly
Although I was posting a dumpster report on craigslist in the late 1990s early 2000s covering primarily San Francisco districts of
FiDi
SOMA
MISSION
Though occasionally reporting on
North beach
Castro
Sunset
Richmond
.com crash ended my reports as riches waned
Specifically craigslist staff were most excellent at offering me foundation help acquiring an Apple Mac power book pre MacBook via a grant as well as technical help operating dumpster.org dumpster report while I owned that domain.
However the.com crash snuffed out this vision
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Safeway Starbucks and Whole Foods offer numerous GMO products.
Safeway is approximately 90% GMO in processed corn wheat soy canola etc
Starbucks similar with GMO wheat flour most all products sandwich bread wheat tortilla wraps cookies etc also GMO SOY
Trader Joe's has no GMO's
Whole Foods GMO problems are mostly in their Pasta and sandwich bread of their
ready to eat sandwiches and pasta deli entrees which in recent years have begun to become labeled with "contains bio engineered food ingredient"
See also
Https://EWG.org environmental working
Https://FoodBabe.com Vani Hari exposed GMO PPM 1100 last decade in Quaker Oats.
Also high GMO PPM:
Doritos Tostitos Fritos Cheerios goldfish wheat thins Triscuits Stacy's pita chips Oreos.
Mission tortilla chips and tortillas contained GMO BT CORN before that.
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Safeway Mill Valley CA
1 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA 94941
Difficult To analyze due to trash compactor Re: 1990 2000 2010 decades
Safeway El Camino Menlo Park Ca 94025
Difficult to analyze as of May 12, 1992 due to installation of trash compactor after years of Safeway lobbying of Menlo Park city Council when finally approved by a Menlo Park city council woman who took discussed at seeing a homeless person dumpster diving, where after Safeway previous location adjacent to middle Avenue was allowed to extend their cinderblock brick wall out to the sidewalk destroying hedges shrubs and bushes allowing increased space for trash compactor in addition to two doors for semi tractor-trailer trucks to back into. This was when Safeway was adjacent to Middle Ave., Payless was west of Safeway closer to Santa Cruz Ave., with smooth concrete excellent mirror finish roller blading rollerskating floor in basement park if garage below complete with walkway and elevator, before demolition
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Trader Joe's SF SMTO Sta Clara North to South
Trader Joe's Masonic @ Geary SF OK 2010 2020
3 Masonic Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118
Trader Joe's HOLLOWAY SF maybe ok low data 2019 2020
265 Winston Dr, San Francisco, CA 94132
Trader Joe's daily city 2019 2020 low data
417 Westlake Center, Daly City, CA 94015
Trader Joe's San Mateo low data 2020 decade
45 W Hillsdale Blvd, San Mateo, CA 94403
Trader Joe's San Carlos low data re late 2010 2020 2021
1482 El Camino Real, San Carlos, CA 94070
Trader Joe's Cupertino Homestead at foothill
2019 2020 2021 maybe ok low data
Trader Joe's Castro Valley low Data
22224 Redwood Rd, Castro Valley, CA 94546
Destroyed green coated metro shelf WITH SAW then tossed into non-recycling dumpster Mid 2010 decade.
SAME DESTRUCTION Whole Foods Palo Alto into both Trash Refuse and green waste dumpster when should have placed in blue recycle dumpster but did not re: 2020 decade.
In both cases a metro shelf could be donated to nonprofits and or a 501 C 3 NGO
SAFEWAY SHARON HEIGHTS Menlo Park FOR EXAMPLE WOULD SET THESE NSF or Metro shelves ASIDE NOT IN DUMPSTER WHEREBY STORE COULD REUSE AS NEEDED AND OR APPROPRIATE VENDORS COULD ADOPT OR PICK UP. IN THIS WAY SAFEWAY WAS LESS WASTEFUL. oops sorry caps lock
Whole Foods Mill Valley 1990 2000 2010 LoData
414 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941
Whole Foods Mill Valley NoData
731 E Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941
Whole Foods San Carlos Los Data 2010 2020
1010 Park Pl, San Mateo, CA 94403
Whole Foods Oakland c 2000 Low Data
230 Bay Pl, Oakland, CA 94612
Whole Foods El Camino Redwood City California
1250 Jefferson Ave, Redwood City, CA 94062
Difficult to analyze due to trash compactor approximately 2010 decade yet easier to see dumpsters approximately later 2010 and 2020 decades
Los Altos Andronicos and or Safeway difficult to analyze due to installation of trash compactor mid 1990s previous to construction of new Safeway location of
160 1st St, Los Altos, CA 94022
Whole foods
20955 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014
Insufficient data re circa 2000 decade
Andronico's or Petrini's Stanford shopping center in sufficient data re: 1990s 2000s 2010s
Possibly both at same location changed name
Bianchinis Ladera insufficient data re:
2000 2010 2020 decades
3130 Alpine Rd #415, Portola Valley, CA 94028
Located in: Ladera Country Shopper
Bianchinis San Carlos low data 2010 2020
810 Laurel St, San Carlos, CA 94070
Robert's Woodside CA insufficient data
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CVS Sharon Heights Menlo Park POOR <90% re:
2010 2020 decades
325 Sharon Park Drive Menlo Park California
CVS Palo Alto mediocre maybe 95%-97% 2020
352 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301
CVS Belmont insufficient data RE: 2010 2020
1324 San Carlos Ave, San Carlos, CA 94070
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United market San Rafael insufficient data 1990s
United market San Anselmo insufficient data 1990s
All of these stores should understand NGOs and or nonprofits are happy to adopt these expensive fixtures such as metro shelves, for example
Buildingresources.org
701 Amador San Francisco Ca
was available for pick ups most of the decades of 1990 2000 2010 see also:
Scrap SF
East Bay depot for creative reuse
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Very affordable
Building Resources 701 Amador SF (415) 285-7814
https://buildingresources.org
Port Authority, SF land, so you pay pennies on the dollar for huge radical supply of awesome construction and building materials, steel wood glass, other metals, excellent wood fixtures, furnishings doors, jams, drywall, plywood, beams, studs conduit, steel pipes tubes, stainless steel cables, serious HD building supply do not miss this opportunity This place will blow your mind
SCRAP Toland St SF
2150 Newcomb St SF @ Toland 415-647-1746
Paper, pens, ink, oil, art and craft supplies mostly for teachers and artists
Huge sheets of 4 x 8 foam core poster board
From Moscone Center trade shows
industrial seconds samples overruns knockoffs and samples and steel wood glass plexiglass acrylic caps and nozzles bottles, vials hooks, fasteners buttons, sewing supplies, textiles, fabrics, bolts, scraps swatches samples Extremely affordable shape and they will work with teachers and artists. They are not about profit. They are about redistributing materials.
https://www.scrap-sf.org
East Bay Depot for Creative ReUse
4695 Telegraph Ave Oakland, CA 94609
https://www.creativereuse.org
Omega Salvage 2400 San Pablo Ave Berkeley CLOSED PERMANENTLY GOSH DARN
Urban Ore Berkeley Urbanore.com $$$
Extremely overpriced, and not worth your visit or time
$5 for a simple wooden chincy cheap grandma‘s knickknack wall Sconce 4” x 4“ 20 years ago
Never went back, so unless they’ve changed, ownership or philosophy will not go back
If there is good news or reasonable prices, please somebody let me know
Obtanium Resource Yard NorCal 1990s 2000s?
Perhaps you can help me identify if there is still a exchange yard for construction materials that I believe used to be located north of SF but before Laytonville Ukiah, unless it was actually up there closer to Oroville weed or Redding above
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