Piles of trash, sitting in warehouses
By Katharine Gammon
Too much of L.A.’s plastic waste never gets recycled.
Every day in Los Angeles, responsible, environmentally concerned residents go to the effort of tossing landfill-bound garbage in one trash container and recyclable waste in another, and then keep that separation going with their curbside bins — blue for recyclables, black for mixed garbage. Yet, while all that effort may seem both virtuous and valuable, a shocking amount of it is doing the environment no good at all.
