San Franciscans are one step closer to sending trainfuls of their trash to a Yuba County landfill, under a proposed contract announced last week.

The city's Board of Supervisors still must approve the proposed trash contract with Recology, but if all goes as planned, we could start filling up a disposal site outside the town of Wheatland in about five years.

Right now whatever isn't recycled or composted (as legally required in S.F.) is sent to the Altamont Hills. That agreement ends in 2015. The new contract would cover 5 million tons of garbage or last 10 years - which comes first depends on just how good we are at sorting our newspapers, aluminum cans, coffee grounds.

Currently the city sends 1,400 tons of trash every day to the landfill, but officials hope that will drop in the future.

Under the proposal, San Francisco garbage will be trucked to Oakland and loaded onto trains for a 130-mile ride on the rails to Yuba County.

- Rachel Gordon

Quote of the week

"He's a cutie-patootie."

Chinese face reader Jane Haner's reaction to a photo of disgraced former Supervisor Ed Jew

By the numbers

$892,225 Estimated value of city-controlled advertising that would be given for free to the America's Cup.

$0 Amount the regatta's organizers will have to pay for electricity, water, garbage and fiber-optic cable installation at the proposed event facilities.

$7.9 million Value of a new federal grant to provide seniors, low-income residents and others in the city with access to computers, broadband connections and training to use them.

This week

Tuesday: Supervisors will vote on naming the Castro's 17th Street pedestrian plaza in honor of Patrol Special Police Officer Jane Warner, who died this year of cancer.

Thursday: Get out the earplugs. Fleet Week flies into town.