Skelton: Why California´s once-proud recycling program `is teetering on the edge´
(WorldNews Environment)

By George Skelton Los Angeles Times 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....