# Curbside Recycling and the Incinerator that Wasn't

Ruth Gravanis, longtime board member of San Francisco Tomorrow, describes how the NIMBY's of Brisbane turned back a plan to burn San Francisco's garbage in a new incinerator in their town, leading to the now much-vaunted curbside recycling program in San Francisco.

- Kind: Short
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Shaping San Francisco
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/CurbsideRecyclingAndTheIncineratorThatWasnt)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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