DEL MAR, Calif. — CBS 8 is Working For You to find out where our recyclables actually end up. This comes after a CBS 8 viewer conducted an experiment and reached out to us with some alarming findings.
Kevin Grold says his plastic water bottle ended up at a landfill in Riverside. Many of us, like Grold, are conscious of doing our part, by putting recyclables in the blue bin. Grold says it was disheartening to see.
"It's my way of appreciating nature and giving back, so if I leave it a little cleaner, then it's a good thing," Grold said, who lives in Del Mar. Every Monday he brings his bins to the curb, recycling all that he can to help the environment. "I always make sure my recycling bin is just the way it should be, I follow all the rules.
I put the things in the right place," he said. To make sure his recyclables were indeed being recycled, he got the idea to track his trash. He told us he bought a plastic GPS tracking device for only $8 online, taped it to a bottle and within a few hours, watched it go from Del Mar to a Recycling Center in Escondido.
Credit: Kevin Grold Credit: Kevin Grold "I'm like ok cool, it's where it should be. And then I keep watching it, and a few hours later, it keeps moving - farther and farther north and ends up in a landfill, in Riverside," Grold said. CBS 8 reached out to EDCO multiple times, starting Wednesday morning, but have not heard back.
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