On trash day in San Francisco, the "Fantastic Three" are a home's curbside hero. Three colored plastic carts line up at the end of driveways to await collection--a black cart for garbage, a blue cart for recyclables, and now a green cart for composting. San Francisco has initiated a citywide composting program to strive for the goal of reaching 75 percent 
citywide recycling by 2010.
The city has provided the green carts are at no cost to residents with trash collecting services. Residents may place foodscraps, soiled paper, and yard trimmings in the composting container (as illustrated by this composting poster).
The compost is then collected and transported to Jepson Prairie Organics, a compost facility that then processes your leftovers from last week and sells the nitrogen-rich compost to vineyards, soil bagging operations, highway erosion and control projects, landscape material yards, golf courses, nurseries, et al.
The compost carts can be lined with compostable and biodegradable liner bags, which are increasingly appearing in the cleaning supply section San Francisco's hardware and convenience stores.
::Jepson Prairie Organics
::SF Recycling
Image from Flickr user ToastyKen shared with a Creative Commons Attribution License.
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