Congratulations California! The Mountain View News (a weekly paper distributed at my local metro station among other places), reported on page 8 of their April 12-18, 2007 edition that "Californians recycled an all-time record 12.4 billion beverage containers, 61% of the 20.5 billion that were purchased in the state." In addition, the paper also reported that California now celebrates 20 years as the biggest bottle and can recycling progarm in the United States. Now if we can only get the rest of the country to follow our lead.