Commentary: Environmentally minded Californians love to recycle — but it's no longer doing any good
by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times
Jul 10, 2018
3 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Californians dutifully load up their recycling bins and feel good about themselves. They're helping the environment and being good citizens.
But their glow might turn to gloom if they realized that much of the stuff is headed to a landfill.
That's because there's no longer a recycling market for a lot of the paper, cardboard, plastic and other junk that's left curbside.
Moreover, people are tossing garbage into those blue bins that they shouldn't be. It just gums up the process.
"People are engaged in
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