California ? A pot grower in northern California is following nature’s rules, if not the law.

Workers who were sorting items at a San Jose recycling center last week found a large trash bag full of marijuana plants.

The center collects leaves, tree limbs and other natural material for composting, but San Jose police say the plants won’t end up that way. Instead they’ll be held as evidence of a crime.

Police say the marijuana could have come from anywhere in Santa Clara County. They don’t know how much of the pot in the bag was sellable.