okay
um where are you from Connie
i'm from Dennison
from Dennison well we live in Plano
Plano great what are they doing anything down there for recycling
yes as a matter of fact they really are in uh February i think it was the city started the first phase
of a three part first two phases of a three part phase in for uh uh city wide you know collection type thing
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and the way they're doing this is they said no more trash bags is that how you set out your trash
yeah
yeah that's the way we always had too no more trash bags and they assigned everybody
well i think it's ninety five gallons big bucket
well that's neat
and uh and you can put everything you know they all look the same they're great big green things they run on rollers they're not hard at all even my
you know eight and ten year old can do it take them out to the street we used to have twice a week collection and now they have once a week collection for that
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and you don't have to use the garbage bags anymore you just uh
do you separate your trash
not yet but
well i think they should do that
that's the third part the second part is we now have a
uh paper type biodegradable real big bag for all the lawn clippings and anything and they've always been encouraging us to not bag our
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i thought about that last last this last couple weeks ago when we bagged up our leaves it was sixteen or eighteen bags of leaves
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oh gosh
and yeah and it takes forever for that plastic to dissolve
well we have a garden and so we have always you know we'll rake the leaves and then we mow them so they're little chibbles you know
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and you use it as mulch
uh-huh and use them as mulch in the garden or around the yard so you know we've done that for along time and we try not to bag our grass clippings unless its just so long we have to but then we put it back on the garden so i've never worried about that but
um they are doing that now where you cannot put out grass stuff you see when you put out your regular trash
ah
they won't let you good
huh-uh now the third part is and it was supposed to have started in May but something and i don't remember the exact reason from Persian Gulf um
trickle down fouled that up and so now we're not going to do that until end of June but then they will give us another container that where we will put everything recyclable glass plastic
right
paper
uh paper can go now we bundle that on top of our and set it out beside our green
okay
thing full a newspaper but but the other kinds of paper will go
and like i say did i say glass glass plastic other papers tin aluminum
and there's something else
oh i can't think of anything milk cartons and soda bottles
yeah like that too that all comes under plastic and glass i can't think what the other thing is anyway we won't even have to sort it at least that's what they say but the guy will come by and sort it there at the curb
well that's good that's neat
oh that's going to be a lot of hard work though
well
for them
yes but it will be more profitable in the long run from what i understand because
well i know everybody's throwing away millions of dollars worth of plastic and stuff everyday just to be buried
they have already they sell all this stuff and see we have recycling centers here in the town that are setup by the city
and that are you know emptied but you know like it will say on there uh green glass only or aluminum only
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and then somebody comes along and mixes it up doesn't do it right
its better for them to hire somebody and pay somebody to do it right because if you even put in just say you had this huge
container of white glass and three or four brown or green glass bottles got in there and got shattered there's no way you can pick all that out
yeah uh-huh
you see what i'm saying so it you know its useless
yes
that well it's not useless it just can't be sold as clear glass anymore back to the recycle places they say well uh you know look you already you've got and they have percentages you know
they're not doing much down here though
yeah
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that what they will accept
the only they think i've heard of them doing down here in Dennison is Wal-Mart let's you put there you know uh milk cartons and
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two liter bottles those clear plastic bottles that's about it
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well all of our um grocery stores are going to um
they have each of one i shop at i go to a Skaggs and Albertson's and a Kroger and they will let you bring in
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your own little paper bags or plastic bags they'll let you recycle them or you can bring them in and actually use them again
little carry-on bags
okay well they're doing that but every time i get paper bags at a grocery store i bring home bugs
do you um i
yeah and i can't do it
don't know that i've ever had that problem i just try to reuse mine a lot at home too and
okay
but used to you know if i had a torn sack when i got home i just trashed it you know and anymore i don't do that i'll put it in with the paper recycling you know the newspaper or something
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yeah well they ought to do that around down here
um that always seems to help the uh um a lot of times if i know i'm just even if i know i've got a big family so you know i rarely come home with you know just a sack or two
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but i have two canvas sacks that are big that are especially for taking to the grocery store that kind of thing and i'll always take those and use them and um
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right i've seen those
real environmentally conscious aren't you
yeah
yeah i always have been i always have been and uh i kind of got out of the habit of it you know for a few years when my children were
small
well when they
did you use diapers
what
disposable diapers
i didn't with my first three but i did with my last two
goodness you've got five kids
and yeah i have five and uh
well the actually now i think about it i think it was number three that i used them a lot with and then number four came along and i used them some with him
most of the time i think i used them with number four
well i've got a three month old i used disposables on her for about a month and a half just to keep her from breaking out so bad
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and then she had reaction to the
oh she had reactions to cloth diapers it was from staying wet more often
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yeah yeah oh they've just improved the
and
yeah well she's doing better they have are they biodegradable or more biodegradable i heard they're the worst things
disposables so much
oh yeah they really fill up
because they stay forever
but they work so good i mean that's one thing that we moms just think oh gosh
yeah they do
i don't mind using cloth diapers i really don't it's not all that much more work
i uh
pardon
it's not all that much more work for disposable i mean for cloth
well i always had you know several in diapers at the same time so that may have been you know why they looked so nice to me but
yeah well cloth i mean disposables do look better they look they're not quite as bulky
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she looks like a little mushroom
but i used disposables with my first little boy
well you know that well i think its just
you know that you i think have to have in your mind an attitude of trading off you just say to yourself well this is not worth it to me to do such and so
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but i want to make up for it because i want to be real conscientious in this and that you know what i'm saying you
right well i'm
you know all of us can to something and you know what works for one family may not work for another family
and
well i know to with disposable diapers though if you use cloth diapers your polluting with more soap and using more water and all that
yeah that's true and you're using more electricity you're using it uh
right
more where as when you buy the others they used it more at the factory so you know you wonder you know you're not using it but somebody used it to create that item you know
yeah you're right yeah
you're right i didn't even think about that
so
but you know you know then you you figured on down the line it did give people jobs
i use cloth diapers for a lot of stuff just besides you know if my kids have got a cold you know i put them in bed with cloth diapers you know
with a cloth diaper
to use instead of a hanky or or tissue you you know they can could just flat go through three dollars worth of tissue you in a morning you know
oh yeah she's just
right and uh-huh
and they are the best dusters
i know it and they make wonderful dusters
oh well
no question about it well i just you know i'm really glad to see us a world coming back to this and
yeah it's really coming to a head it's been building up for a few years i remember this going on when i was a teenager
sure sure
for about the last ten years
how long have you been married
five years
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and i've got two children
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so you know when you say you're a teenager you know i uh
i've been married seventeen years and have always been you know like i say always been conscious this way but
um
i haven't not until this year it's really starting to
so it's all brand new to you then to think of these things
right yeah
well they've really started you know i wish they would do that um with uh the buckets here instead of the trash bags here the city sends us trash bags
uh-huh yeah that's what we had the program before too
well there's a lot of information if you ever get to Dallas
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you come in very often
no i don't
well if you ever get to come here you must put on your list of place to go is a place called
