so do you have any recycling programs there
um i don't really think we have anything
in the works as of yet uh we're pretty small town and um the closest thing we have are bins like out in front of Wal-Mart
uh-huh
oh uh-huh
that show you know plastics
paper
yeah
liter bottles et cetera et cetera
we've progressed a little bit farther than that um actually they have uh parts of town
yeah
it may have even spread all over the whole town and um they have these green bins
um-hum
and it's just as standard as a a regular trash can that they come by and pick up and dump
yeah
and uh just along with a trash can you have this this green plastic bin and you put your bottles in it and paper
and um you know all those things that aluminum you know anything that can be recycled you just put in that bin
oh
and uh i guess you can also and a lot of the restaurants
yeah
they just have uh places where you can throw away especially beer places
where you can throw away green bottles and then the brown bottles and uh
huh
oh i don't know i guess they're you know clear bottles so um you know a lot of people do have those separated
yeah
and of course they have the um dumpsters uh the the igloos
yeah
uh and they have those strategically strategically placed around the city
oh
and uh they're they're actually gonna extend it i think one of these days maybe to apartment complexes and uh
oh that'd be good
yeah things of that nature so i guess when you live in a bigger city it it really becomes uh necessary
yeah see it's not anywhere near that uh we uh you know as far as our little pitch in to it we do recycle our aluminum cans
oh yeah
but that's as far as we go because i take them to a girl at work and she goes and cashes them in because you know i just
uh-huh
i can do that for her and and i don't want the hassle because we have to go to another town to do it
yeah
oh really hm
yeah see we don't have anything here in Belton it's it's a pretty small little town
yeah i remember my grandparents and i used to always get out there on the road and pick up beer cans and uh
yeah
so
yeah that's about all that that we're doing here uh they're
uh getting a little bit more on
they need to a lot a more community awareness of just what is it mean to recycle and what can you recycle and what you can't because
uh-huh
you know not a lot of people do really know what you know
yeah they're doing a real good job of uh separating it here and of course there you know you have a specific place to put your paper
what it's for
yeah
and uh they try to get you to go ahead and separate it but uh they actually have the door to door pickup um and it's uh i think it started out to be um
just kind of a test a pilot project and it went over so well that they just extended it and it's almost uh i don't know if it's done by a private company or not it may be
um-hum
but uh they just go around to each uh door and pick it up
wow that's excellent that's good
yeah
let's see oh and every year of course the phone books
yeah
um they tell everybody across the city to um put all their phone books in uh the uh recycle bins
oh
because you know phone books are pretty well for a bigger city they're pretty thick and and sometimes you might have two or three
yeah they uh
exactly
so uh that's that's a big savings right there in itself
yeah see ours just goes in the regular trash it just you know there's not a whole lot and there are you know some places that
yeah hm
we'll set up you know for old newspapers and stuff but usually it's
um-hum
it it hasn't caught on yet i'm hoping it will soon
um-hum well the thing about newspapers and paper recycled paper is actually very expensive
yeah
so when you see something that's on recycled paper they've actually gone to a lot of expense to do that it's uh they're not coming out ahead at all
it's uh it's really a cost
hm i wasn't totally aware of that
yeah
so
i mean it it sounds good to the public but there's really a big cost incurred when you do recycle something now aluminum i don't know they may be coming out ahead
yeah
but i know for a fact that the paper
uh on that end they're not you know it's it's good to recycle but it's uh not to their advantage and it costs less
yeah
hm
well
i can't think of anything else okay
i can't either because we're we're at a very you know beginning stages so
uh-huh
we look forward to it to get better but that's it
well i hope y'all um uh come along a little farther in the future
yeah me too
it was nice talking to you bye-bye
you too bye
