well i guess we're supposed to talk about what's being done about recycling
yes
well lots right
right
finally
really what what do you do now
well we have saved our newspapers for years and years because the uh Boy Scouts our boys have been involved in have uh had a huge recycling bin over at Resurrection Lutheran Church
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and um
so we've done that for quite some time but since the price of paper has gone down like it's about a fifth of what it used to be
oh really
so the Boy Scout troop quit doing it when the city took it over
oh okay
so now we just put ours out for the city of Plano do you live in Plano okay yeah
yes i do yeah and i'm so glad when they brought out those recycling bins have you had yours now yeah
you
right
yes although just just about a week ago some of my volunteer mothers that um work in the library for me said they hadn't gotten theirs
oh that's why i asked you i guess it you know it does go in cycles and not everyone got theirs right away
yeah
like
yeah yeah
and i i was so relieved because i've been making a real concerted effort make you know recycling the aluminum and the newspapers and even got into plastic because Wal-Mart collected it
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right yeah we used to take ours there
and uh my garage was just getting overwhelmed and of course i didn't go weekly so it became quite a big thing and uh
i know
right right i'm really glad they do it um
yeah i do newspapers mostly newspapers and um plastic two liter diet Coke bottles and aluminum cans some but i don't use as many of those
yes yeah
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i guess the ones that are hard to convince yourself to do are the ones that you have to really that are really dirty that you have to wash out
yeah well i found out after washing out many a peanut butter jar that they're not a recycling number one or two
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uh ha so it was wasting a lot of time
wasting all your time and effort and putting it in there
yeah thinking i was safe in buying those jars as far as the environment was concerned
yeah yeah
but uh you know but it it's not that hard now that i've got this system under control yeah
got your routine down yeah
well i guess there are some places um in the north in particular that um have a real definite way of encouraging you to recycle because they charge you
let's see they charge you for your garbage pick up by the weight
ah uh-huh
so if you recycle things of course then you don't have all that weight in there
yeah i do find that i don't have as much to throw away because all the bulky things are are being tossed in with the recycling and uh
right that's right
yeah yeah
i don't know what they could do more of exactly around here right now other than uh what are some of the things they don't recycle oh one thing i thought about the other day were batteries just everyday regular batteries
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supposedly you know leak and and contaminate the landfills and yet what am i going to do when i have a couple double A batteries to toss out and they don't take
right
yeah right probably going to throw them in your trash
yeah that's what happens because
well there are places that take car batteries but i wonder if they would take
yeah
i mean not that it would kind of a pain to you know drive over somewhere special just for that for two little tiny batteries but
yeah yeah but i think the city one could possibly look into that or something
yeah that's true
uh if they've got these bins for all the other little items i'm sure if people people will have batteries uh you know quite often to to toss out
right that's true um
when i was home those few days around Thanksgiving and the um
the truck came by well we all ran out to watch it because you know we'd never really seen it pick up our stuff and one thing i thought was interesting was that the driver had something on his belt that he uh scanned across the little bar code on our bin
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oh
oh is that right
as soon as he took the stuff and he just pulled this thing kind of out of his pocket and just you know scanned it so i don't know why what that was reading it for
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but um they must be trying to keep track of you know who is doing it or what i guess i don't know another
registering our garbage
yeah wouldn't it be nice if you could get a credit back at the end of the year
oh for those who are really cooperating now that would encourage it
yeah
well except i know it would just not be cost effective they've already got all this money out on hired um getting the trucks and hiring people to work them i'm sure they couldn't afford that but um
sure sure
but the garbage um now there is just one garbage man that comes
yeah oh yeah
on the truck instead of two
so that's interesting um also slightly off the subject but our our big green garbage thing got stolen
oh it did goodness
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and we called we called the city and um
they they brought us a new one and they did not charge us and they said that between three and four hundred have been stolen
oh my goodness it is sad you know they paid for those things anyway or our taxes do
isn't that sad you know it just
oh and they must be yeah really expensive i mean of course we were hoping we weren't we weren't going to have to pay for it you know but i mean what would somebody do with them
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oh how there
