(music throughout) >>> "abc 7 news" is invested in building a better bay area, which means we are spending extra time looking at issues that affect our quality of life and trying to find solutions. >> that's the key. there is a recycling crisis across the country and it is hitting california particularly hard. recyclers are scrambling to find places to send all of our sorted waste since china tightened ules earlier this year. >> could a solution be right here in the bay area? "abc 7 news" anchor dion lim sorts through the messy matter and looks at what might be done to fix the problem. >> reporter: when most of us put out our recycling on trash day, we dump all of our glass, plastic and paper in the same bin. recyclers sort through it, bundle it up and ship it overseas to be recycled. for decades much of the waste was sold to china. the world's single largest importer and recycler of scrap metals, plastic and paper. >> we have taken for granted the fact that a lot of material that we...