okay
okay well what are we doing about recycling in our community
well well in our area we just introduced the um citywide
uh Clean King Sport campaign and we have a recycling mascot called Kleanaroo he's a kangaroo and um we're setting up curbside recycling bins for the city home owners
and several of our local businesses also have recycling stations set up in their parking lots
um-hum
and how about in your area
well in our i live in a very small community outside of the Dallas area and uh we're just getting started as a matter of fact this last week we got a notice in the mail from City Hall
and they've informed us that uh we'd be getting more instructions in the mail in a week or two but we're going to start a separation of our refuse and separating the cans from the paper et cetera
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and apart of that we haven't really done much of anything except for uh separating your newspapers and taking those to uh an area that they've designated um
but in uh in the office place we've been doing it for some time separating our uh uh computer paper from our normal garbage
all right so have we we've been doing the computer paper and then we've also been doing our aluminum cans
uh-huh
what do they do with the cans
i that's the one thing i don't know i i don't know if they take them to the local aluminum uh recycling plant
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uh just locally or or what i assume that's what they would do
i would assume so and then maybe do something with the money for charity or something
i would hope
yeah i i think that's what they do i think they they give that to charity
i
yeah that's a good idea and and uh other than the work place and here at home um
i don't know too much is going on in the community i know that in Plano it's a larger city in the area they they uh i believe about a month or two ago they started having the citizens separate their refuse
okay
and they've even um got a particular huge uh waste can that they have to use
oh for each different product oh okay
right uh-huh that makes it kind of easier then you remember you know
yeah
i i was going to say i've seen in some of these um local mail order catalogs they've got trash can dividers for for home owners who don't have those it it
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oh uh-huh
it like cuts your trash can in half so you could put cans on one side and and other on the other side so
other side that's a good idea
i think i think a lot of people are jumping on the band wagon
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um
as far as you know should more be done i think there's i think there's always more that can be done
i think as we all get in the swing of things this is just a beginning don't you think
yes i've even heard them talking about uh recycling Freon from refrigerators refrigeration systems yes there are people there are companies that recycle their Freon
oh really
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and um i'm sure there are a lot chemicals that that can be recycled that
yeah i know the motor oil
there's a lot of
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we have places that we can take our motor oil to if you change your own oil at home i
now that's we we don't have that that's neat
um KMart does that some of the KMarts in the area where i don't have any except for the lawn motor lawn mower
oh
uh-huh
um machine oil because i always have my oil changed out of the house but
but but you'd think that uh garages could do that
yes i'm sure they do uh
i mean that would be great
um-hum because that's something that doesn't go back into the soil does it doesn't break down
no it's it's really bad to not break down
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i uh saw an article the other day in Ann Landers that talked about how long it takes like a cigarette butt to decompose and i think it was between twenty and thirty years
is that right i had no idea
yes
i i was i was flabbergasted and i think plastic was um plastic never totally total breaks down
never breaks down
um the Styrofoam
that's the one that never did yep
yeah never did some
plastic took fifty years
fifty years
yeah
um i know that i had heard that uh McDonald's has gotten so much flack about sending their hot foods out in the Styrofoam that they are going to work on something
they they have here yes i used to get my Egg McMuffin in one of those little Styrofoam cup uh cups like and now they wrap them in paper
other than that oh have they
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do they well good
yes
so i was really glad to see that
i think they're one of the businesses at large that do things like that they're more aware of it
they they are good
or at least they try and do something about it first
i think they recognize their their position as a community leader
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and really work to keep that going
i think you're right
so and and the only other thing i've seen has been the setting up a compost heap in your own backyard
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but that's that's hard if you don't have a big yard or if you live in an apartment
defiantly if you live in an apartment right
that might not go over real well
right that's for sure
so
well
let's see has it been i think have we been our five minutes
uh i really don't know i haven't been timing it but i think
i know the last time i did this they came on and said
you you have exceeded your ten minutes time limit hang up within the next thirty seconds so
oh okay
oh all right
um
well i guess we'll just say good-bye then
okay and and i think we just hang up i don't think we have to do anything else
okay
but it's been very nice talking to you okay
thank you nice to talk to you also
all righty bye-bye
bye-bye
