okay what are you are you doing anything in Utah on recycling
well in uh our particular area uh we're not other than uh
they have a local store that you can take uh
bottles and
cans and different things to
um-hum
in their parking lot and uh
in the winter we haven't been doing that but uh
they don't uh
that's about all they're doing
is it a small town
yes it's a rural area
that makes a difference uh here in Dallas they're trying to
uh-huh
to start some curbside recycling i think they're doing a test uh personally my husband and i do plastic and glass and newspaper and cans but we have to uh take them you know to
to areas and the problem that i'm finding is that uh a lot of the places i've been taking things have now discontinued the recycling policy like it's hard to find a place to take newspapers anymore
um-hum yes so that's uh that's basically what happened up here and then uh with all the recycling the price of aluminum cans went down
oh really
yeah it used to be about sixty cents a pound and so people were collecting them and taking them in to recycle
uh to get money for them now it's down to about nineteen cents a pound
well i noticed a difference uh we go to the Kroger store uh here to take our aluminum cans and i noticed a difference you know i'd be getting perhaps a dollar for whatever i took in and i think the last bunch i took in which i didn't think was much smaller was maybe twenty six cents
yeah that's that's what's happened and i don't know if that's from recycling i i understand it is but
here uh we do we do recycle our newspapers and give them to the scouts
and they uh they're able to make some money
uh
that way
but i have a son in Illinois who uh
they pick it up they have a a recycling uh garbage uh pick up where they have different
uh receptacles where they put it in
they have some for the cans some for the bottles and newspapers
and then they have the regular garbage and uh
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this truck comes before the garbage truck and picks uh
and has separate bins to put all the glass and the plastic and all that in
that seems to be working quite well there that's uh in uh Illinois
well you know what is so sad is that people are finally i think willing to do something about this and then all of a sudden uh the the demand isn't there you know it's too expensive to recycle but i personally feel that we're going to have to
yes
uh-huh
pay the price you know whether the government subsidizes it and i'm you know i sorry to the government government get involved in too much of anything else like that but something has to be done we're just uh we're using our natural resources we're filling up the dumps and
yeah
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well i've that's what they in the local the local paper here they were talking about that uh half about half the uh
the material in the dumps is newspapers
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they could recycle that uh more than they do then uh
um
we'd be able to save a lot of trees and everything else so i've been i i i'm all for it i just don't know uh
i know my son uh in Chicago where he has this they have uh
uh they have to pay extra to have them pick it up even though and and so that's kind of a a burden on my uh
my son even though they they put it in different containers they still have to pay extra money to do
uh-huh
well and i know uh too my mother lives in a rural area also and it she would have to go like thirty miles to recycle anything and so course so of course she she doesn't and plus uh it's difficult for her to
and uh
um
drive around just all that much so in a case like that you know they have to make it a little bit easier for people
yes they do
to do that
yeah um-hum
and um i'm hoping that they do this curbside recycling i'll be willing to pay a little extra you know if they'll go ahead and pick it up quite frankly it'll save me money in gas running around all over town
right
yep boy that's true
and i take my uh paper i always get paper bags and i take them back to the grocery store and use them again
hm right
so you know little bit here and little bit there i guess it all helps
yeah
yeah it it really does if we could just get uh people uh
all over to do it now i know in uh south of us about a hundred miles south in Utah they do have a uh area where
uh they bring all the garbage in and they uh they do have places to recycle and they really encourage this and uh you can bring it and you have different areas
um that's a small yeah well it's next to Provo Utah i don't know if you're familiar with Utah at all but anyway
not a lot but i've heard the name Provo before
it's where Brigham Brigham Young University is uh this
okay
uh there they seem to be having success and but it is a uh
it's done by the
it for profit making for these people
um-hum
and they of course are
