topic is recycling today
and actually i'm pretty hot about the topic right now yes i am
oh you are
you're you're into uh recycling
i'm into recycling i've got several friends who use me as their recycling drop off matter of fact
um-hum what materials do you recycle
i recycle glass plastic and aluminum
also paper and plastic bags
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and i uh in Dallas we recently had a report on the news in the evening
about what's being done with the recycled the recycling materials
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and green glass and several other items but green glass in particular is being tossed into the landfills
and i got really hot about that because my husband my husband drinks a lot of ginger ale and it's packed in green glass
so
so you're trying to take action to have that changed
well yeah i'm i'm racking my brain thinking okay where can i what can i do to take action on this the only recycling plant i think in the south is in Atlanta
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and they're paying i think
eighteen cents
for every hundred pounds of green glass
right so economically it's not a situation where you're going be able to attract a lot of attention
no i'm not but i've got
right
good gosh i've got probably
twenty or thirty pounds of it in my yard right now
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waiting for a recycling place to take it to and
i would really be disturbed if i found out that the place i took it to
was going to just put it in the landfill i mean i could have done that
well i think um that is kind of becoming one of the drivers now the fact that with all the recycling that took place the price per pound has declined i know aluminum in our area one year ago aluminum was
yeah
forty five cents a pound and now it's twenty last time i went it was twenty two cents a pound
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so it uh there's not a lot of money to be made but it's just a question of trying to help the environment
no
well that's the that's the thing is i uh i would rather help my environment and uh when i turn in glass and aluminum i turn it in to my church which has a community center
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and the community center uses the money to help with an after school program to help keep kids off the streets and to to give them a fighting chance in the world
in regards to education and i think that's a real worthwhile project and
right
that's really what got me started recycling was this uh community center
hm yeah where where i work we recycle paper that's about it
so
do you which kind of paper computer paper
yeah any any um noncolored noncolored or nonfilm type paper just white paper and that sort of thing
oh any
uh-huh
oh uh-huh but do they recycle computer paper
and
i mean like the the green and white barred
uh
oh we don't use that kind of paper any more no we have perforated
oh you don't use that paper okay
for personal printers and then like LaserJet type paper
oh yeah uh-huh
we don't use the green bar type paper any more
the old the old green bars um-hum
right
yeah because our our church also recycles computer paper and
i don't know why i was thinking it was just the old green bar style as opposed to
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even the personal
uh letter sized
well i would guess that your church is probably at a point where they're not really breaking even on their recycling
i mean
uh well
unless they get volunteers who have people who have trucks and that sort of thing
yeah we have volunteers and there's not that it's
not that wide of a participation participation just yet
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so although with my friends helping we we contribute quite a bit of glass we all have children and
quite a few of the children are in baby food
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and those baby food jars believe it or not really add up fast
right well there are neighborhoods in the Atlanta area where uh you have specific trash bins to put recyclables in and then they're collected on a regular basis
so
oh yeah curbside recycling
right
yeah they have that in Houston and in Dallas
and i saw another report where in Houston they take the bins
and they load them up into the truck in the separate areas in the truck
right
and the truck goes and dumps all of it into one landfill
that got me heated up too
that got me real heated up a friend of my mother's told her about that and she was telling me about it and then i saw a report on TV too
and i thought why are we going through this trouble
and i had a report tell me why we are we go through the trouble because everybody's worried about the environment
and now that we have uh the the smaller the lay people worried about the environment
now we have to get the businesses worried about using the recycled product
that not that many businesses are
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