By Jim Rosenau
At our house, it happens every Monday night. We wheeled our green waste at the curb to be carried away. But where is this "gap" anyway? And what happens when he gets there? I was curious, so I got the money for gas and a photographer Berkeleyside. Here's what we learned.
Around 4:30 each weekday of the first four to five feet 48 trailer trucks pull up to the transfer station of the city in the second and Gilman. They load vehicles up to 23 tonnes of green waste at Berkeley, collected from our borders, and 300 business addresses.From there, the tractor-trailers travel 69 miles on Altamont Pass, via Highway 580, on their way to the edge of the Central Valley. Here, land is cheaper and less fussy nose.
