Editorial: Garbarino helped Marin set the tone for recycling

In the 1970s, after already helping build Marin’s largest garbage-collection firm, Joe Garbarino Jr. saw a need for change.

The “throwaway society” our nation had become was on a fast pace of filling landfills and wasting resources that could be reused.

Mr. Garbarino saw a need to turn the trash business toward recycling and the pioneering advances he launched for his Marin customers blazed a trail of changes in the industry and a public awareness that reuse, recycling and recovery...