ShareThisSAN JOSE, Calif. -- GreenTeam recycling in San Jose strives to put its reused material to the "highest and best use," but a recent discovery may have tested that motto.A worker at GreenTeam's recycling center found an entirely different type of green while sorting through refuse last week, police said -- a garbage bag with 5 pounds of marijuana. Police estimated the value of the marijuana at between $1,500 and $3,750, depending on the quality. There's no way to trace who owned it, Officer Jermaine Thomas said. "It's just one of those things," he said. "Who knows how it got there?"GreenTeam handles recycling for about 46,000 single-family homes in western and central San Jose, as well as for apartments and city facilities such as the San Jose International Airport, convention center and city parks. E-mail John Cote at jcote(at)sfchronicle.com. (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)
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