Dec. 24—Joe Garbarino Jr., a pioneering figure in California's recycling industry, died on Dec. 19. He was 91. The San Rafael resident died from complications of T-cell lymphoma, his daughter ...

Joe Garbarino was born in 1933, shortly after his father and mother, John and Rosa Garbarino, arrived in the United States from Italy. As a child, he watched his father and uncle haul garbage in ...