San Franciscans have six more weeks before they’re required to toss their food scraps into green composting bins or face a fine – but apparently all the trash talk coming out of City Hall is already having an effect.

Just a few months ago, the city Department of the Environment was doling out five to 10 green composting bins a day; now that number is up to 130. The amount of composted material coming out of San Francisco is up 15 percent over the past few months – now totaling 480 tons every day.

“There’s a real sense of urgency now,” said Jared Blumenfeld, director of the Environment Department. “We never heard from these folks and, suddenly, they’re saying, ‘How do you do it?’ “

Each day, Blumenfeld’s department sends five or six people schooled in composting to apartment buildings, homes and businesses to show people how to get started – and to help them find the space for another bin in this tightly packed city. In some particularly crowded neighborhoods like Chinatown, homeowners are already banding together to share a bin.

And eco-conscious tenants who were frustrated that their landlords didn’t have composting bins on-site are now pointing to the law and getting their way, Blumenfeld said.

“It’s definitely achieving the intended results – people want to make sure they’re in compliance,” he said of the legislation proposed by Mayor Gavin Newsom and passed by the Board of Supervisors in June.

Starting Oct. 21, every home and business in the city must have three separate color-coded bins for waste: black for trash, blue for recycling – and now green for composting. Failure to sort trash initially will result in several warnings, but ultimately could lead to fines of up to $1,000 in egregious cases.