Environmentally minded Californians love to recycle — but it's no longer doing any good

Environmentally minded Californians love to recycle — but it's no longer doing any good
"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 wish recycling,” says Mark Oldfield, public affairs director at CalRecycle, which runs the state’s recycling program. 
“They think: ‘This should be recycled. I’m going to put it in the bin.’”...
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