It is surprisingly hard to recycle in CA

This is just a plastic lid from an MSR Isopro gas can (not ours) in the Hiker/Biker campground at Sunset Beach SP (where it is surprisingly hard to get to the beach; and it is raining, so no sunset for us tonight). But, in general, in CA it has been really hard to recycle. And I don't mean the alkaline batteries Andy/Mary took for us; I mean plastic beverage bottles, cans, you know, the basic friggin' stuff.
When we're up Nort', in da UP, eh, I figure "there aren't enough garbage producing humans to create a market for recycling". But in freakin' CA?! There are as many bipedal hominids as in the other "CA"! (Canada)
Maybe it's just another case of "the legislature represents big business, not the citizen"? (Like with CA's ballot initiative to legalize marijuana, where the only legal recreational drug industry [alcohol] spent $9 Million defeating it.)
Or maybe CA just want MORE plastic to end up in the Pacific Gyre?

(For extra credit search "Pacific Gyre" and "The Majestic Plastic Bag" on the intertubes; for grad level credit search and watch the video about the Pacific islands [Midway?] And birds dying of ingesting our plastic. Yours; and mine.)

Time to go finish that Sapporo beer (imported, from Guelph, Ontario!), and get outta the rain (I'm huddled under a pine tree, right next to a guy plowing a field on this huge agribusiness plot right behind our tent; I know how hard farmers work, and it has me worried - for my sleep tonight!)