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Burgers and the problem is not the food but the trash they say it generates and the city is now looking into doing something about it. claudia cowan is in our san francisco bureau, all right, really? how much trash are we talking about? and what kind of trash, claudia? >> well, this kind of trash, we are talking about anything that was bought at a fast-food restaurant or a mini-mart and that didn't quite make it to the trash can, an audit of san francisco's litter found fast-food wrappers and soft drink cups and napkins are the second mostsource of waste and, these tough economic times there, ...

But, presumably it would be the customers who end up having to pay, and that is where critics are lashing out about this and they say the so-called fee really amounts to a regressive tax that would impact poor people who are struggling enough now as it is, and restaurant managers do everything they can to keep their prices clean and should not be forced to charge more because their customers are litter bugs and the fee would drive up the costs of eating out in san francisco more and eventually people would say, even the cheap places are too expensive and, of course, that is not good for busine...