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REGION — San Diego County’s congressional representatives took to social media today to respond to the violence that erupted at the U.S. Capitol when a throng of Trump supporters stormed the building and clashed with police, forcing lawmakers to shelter in place. Rep. Mike Levin, D-San Juan Capistrano, whose district includes parts of San Diego County, tweeted, “I am sheltering in place due to multiple threats from suspicious packages and Trump supporters storming the Capitol, but I am safe. I am incredibly grateful for the brave Capitol Police officers trying to keep us safe.” Rep. Scott Peters, D-San Diego, sent out TURN TO CAPITOL ON A5
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.com TYRANNOSAURUS REX is one of the most familiar of the dinosaurs. This species of dinosaur, and three-quarters of all life on Earth, disappeared with a “cataclysmic event” 66 million years ago. See this model at Jurassic Quest at the Del Mar Fairgrounds through Jan. 10. Story on B1. Photo by Jerry Ondash
City program to reduce emissions by recycling food scraps By Samantha Nelson
OCEANSIDE — A new recycling program that collect leftover food scraps from local businesses is helping the city to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and meet its zero waste goals. In August of last year, the city partnered with Waste Management to launch its Food Scraps Recycling Program, which diverts food scraps from going to landfill. The program has been in the making for several years after the state passed THE CITY’S food waste recycling program has been in the more aggressive mandates making for several years. File photo requiring businesses to
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divert organics from landfill. Oceanside’s program helps the city meet those requirements as well as its own zero waste goals, which set a goal of reaching a 7590% waste diversion rate by 2020. “We’re currently at 67%,” said Colleen Foster, the city’s environmental officer in the Water Utilities Department. With the new food scraps program, Foster anticipates seeing that rate rise 8-10% in the next year. Instead of throwing away food scraps — everything from meat, bones, dairy, fruits, vegetables and
according to the Water Utilities Department is the equivalent of taking 940 cars off the road every month. After food scraps are collected from businesses, they are taken to a wastewater facility in Los Angeles where they are processed and turned into renewable energy that fuels the facility. Since the program started, more than 1,500 cubic yards of food scraps have been processed into renewable energy. So far, more than 1,000 Oceanside businesses have TURN TO FOOD SCRAPS ON A10
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