Recycling Contamination Has California Sorting Out Solutions

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Californians may be leaders in recycling.
“I have a huge garden in my backyard, I recycle the plants,” said one recycler in Sacramento.
But California’s recycling industry has a problem: China no longer wants our waste. It says it’s too contaminated with food and other junk that can’t be recycled.
“What the Chinese are saying is if you have a half a percent of food or adhesive in there, we can’t accept it,” said Mark Murr