Innovation has been the hallmark of the South San Francisco Scavengers record of providing practical and economical solutions to complex waste management problems. Founded in 1914, we have operated as a regulated refuse collection and recycling company for over 85 years. This experience allows the South San Francisco Scavenger Company to meet and exceed industry standards and to provide unequaled customer service throughout our service areas of South San Francisco, Millbrae, Brisbane and the San Francisco International Airport.

Over the years the waste industry has had to adapt to increasingly exacting and complicated standards. One important development in recent years is California Assembly Bill 939, which states that cities must divert 50% of their waste by the year 2000 that in the past would go into the landfill. In the 1920's and 1930's, the South San Francisco Scavengers pioneered the transition from open dumps to today's sanitary landfills. In the 1950's and 1960's we helped perfect the collection of refuse in watertight collection vehicles that compacted the refuse, allowing for more efficient collection. In the 1970's we opened the first transfer station in northern California. In the 1980's we were among the first to install prototype waste reduction and resource recovery technologies, including the curbside collection of recyclable materials, and advanced hazardous waste information programs.

South San Francisco Scavenger Company has always focused on finding adequate and cost effective disposal methods, of recycling and diverting from the landfill greater amounts of refuse, and on dealing with the realities of hazardous materials in today's waste stream.