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Do the things we throw into the Bay Area’s blue bins really get recycled? Here’s why the answer is changing
Inside the GreenWaste Material Recovery Facility in San Jose, both human and mechanical hands work to separate the pieces of ink-stained paper, dented multi-colored plastic and crushed metal that can be resold and recycled from the piles of collected …