well do you do any recycling
um we do here um see what do we recycle we they recycle they have bins
yeah
and they also have centers where you can take aluminum cans and um plastic bottles
and i think that's all they have
oh
what about you guys
well we uh there's a lot of things that you can recycle down here although the only thing i guess i wind up recycling religiously is uh aluminum cans
uh-huh
but uh we've got a we've got a couple of different things uh places uh they're like unattended
aluminum can smashers and you can go up there and and uh redeem we've got one that gives you like a penny a can
really for smashed cans
so if you yeah well actually you have to give put them in there unsmashed
uh-huh
and uh when you do that it it basically crushes them and then drops a penny down a little shoot
oh can you can you hold on for just a minute i'm gonna try pressing one again to make sure that i pressed it hard enough because okay just a second
sure
okay
okay
oh okay well i guess
well i heard it that i heard it that time
i guess
yeah okay well anyways you guys only get a penny a can well when you buy like um canned drinks and stuff like that do they charge you for the deposit
uh no you probably get charged like a nickel or something like that
yeah exactly and so it's like they charge you for the deposit so when you turn in the cans unsmashed you're just like reimbursed
oh okay okay no they don't charge us that extra nickel
type of thing
that's sort of nice though
yeah it it really is really what happens is we just get a penny a can back
off the off the price if you wanna think of it that way so when we get like uh um a twelve pack then that's like twelve cents back
uh-huh
yeah so you guys can actually get ahead
yeah
but uh they have sort of like uh things that you can you're not like reimbursed for or paid for like we can recycle uh clear glass brown glass green glass
yeah
um and milk jugs and um
newspapers you know everyone does newspapers
yeah yeah everybody does newspapers
but that that kind of stuff
yeah
but they they said they can't be smashed or else um it doesn't fit in their little containers and they're not reimbursed by the the people who are over them or something
well shoot maybe what we ought to do is start sending unsmashed uh Pepsi cans and whatever up there
yeah exactly yeah send it to this address no but um let's see they said that how ways we can encourage recycling um
i i i tell you what what really works uh at least down here is if there is if there is some even even some money basically to take care of the gas
to recycle it you know what i mean then people tend to do it uh
yeah that's
in other words uh taking care of the environment is is all well and good
um-hum
but if it's gonna cost you to take care of the environment they're not quite as uh likely to do it as if uh as if you get something back for it
as likely to do it yeah
you know and uh so you know if there are some energy savings or if there's some significant savings anything that they can pass on to the consumer
yeah that's true
you know it kind of reminds me of using an ATM card
you know to get money or doing your banking you know if it's free people will use it if it costs them something then they're not as likely to use it
uh-huh yeah
yeah exactly
you know
but uh i know we had a problem down here with uh oil people taking oil out of their cars
uh-huh
and just putting it down the drain you know the sewer the drain sewer
yeah
and uh all that because there was apparently a lot of people you know every time they change the oil they just dump all the rest their old oil down there now they're starting to recycle that stuff
uh-huh
oh that's good
um another thing i thought of i guess to recycle would be like clothes because i mean everybody gets rid of their clothes sometime or other
and one way that we do it sort of in in Iowa is that
we can take some of our clothes to the consignment shops
yeah
and that way you know you don't get near enough as as much as you bought it for but you you got the use out of it and what you're gonna basically donate to to a Goodwill or whatever anyways you can get a little bit of money for
yeah yeah
and so that's something that i've never i we're we're new to Iowa and so that's something that i hadn't you know looked into before but that's one way to sort of get money and still recycle i guess
yeah i know the a lot of places they um uh
