hey Steve um they just uh they just started a recycling program here i think actually this is my first experience with recycling program but um instead of just like tossing everything away which i always felt bad about
um-hum
um i'm starting to split stuff split split stuff off the only disadvantage is that they don't pick it up at the curb they make me drive it like a mile down the road and split it out down there what are they doing up there
well here in Saskatoon um much the same thing there is no curb pick up of uh
any of the recycled products uh we're in a community of about a hundred and eighty thousand people uh there are areas where we could uh actually we have a couple of the uh
handicapped societies type of places where they uh
one they do as just a recycling operation and then others they uh collect the paper and ship it to other retailers so uh we're able to uh
have drop off bins for news papers and cardboard and that kind of thing and then there are
there's a uh deposit program on plastic and glass containers well primarily soft drink bottles and so we're able to uh take it to one of the uh
rehabilitation centers and then they recycle the containers they refund the deposit which is anywhere from five to fifteen cents a container and then
but the deposits only on like drink stuff
right yeah on the on primarily on soft drink pop and that kind of thing
okay
okay
and uh so they induce recycling of plastic and glass soft drink containers uh we do have
one one of the scrap metal dealers that will accept tin and aluminum cans as well
oh okay
and and actually the recycler there is a deposit on aluminum pop cans and beer cans and so the recycler uh with the handicapped group will also accept those so
uh it's fairly fairly extensive but again it's uh it's the initiative of the individual person because there is no coordinated pick up by the city
so is they you're giving are you giving these products to the handicapped group and the handicapped group is getting the uh the money
or or you got or they somehow distributing the funds back to you
well actually there's
there's the opportunity for both
oh okay
generally the uh
the handicapped group takes care of the things that actually the government has placed a deposit which is the inducement to recycle recycle the bottle so that you get your money back
and then the recycler run by the handicapped society pays back the cost of that deposit
and then i have a then then they in turn will get some money from the bottlers and from the the people that do the canning of the pop and the beer as as well
that's very cool you know there's a i i heard about a a similar program in New York City where uh i think it's called like Homeless Incorporated or something like that but what they do is employ um homeless i think mostly men but homeless people
to uh go out and collect all the recyclable cans and and i think it's mostly cans there may be bottles as well but like beer cans soda cans and what not and they uh bring them up to a one
location one centralized location and uh are able to collect the money from the various beer and and soda manufacturers and uh and and get more money to these people that desperately need it
um yeah um i guess partly because of our climate here in Saskatoon at least the majority of
Central Canada uh well i want to say Central Canada but Central Canada tends to be referred more to Ontario and Quebec
yeah
but um
we don't have much of a situation where we might call them homeless people we certainly have a fair number of people that are on welfor welfare and unemployment insurance that kind of thing um
there's psychological pressure against
employing people to do that kind of thing although um
scouts and
hockey teams and ball teams those kinds um regularly do bottle drives where they go around in various neighborhoods and collecting the bottles at individual homes
do they do it with newspapers as well
they have done it some
um but we have actually quite an extensive network of collecting uh newspapers they're actually at
virtually all of the shopping centers like the shopping malls there are several containers where the group called Cosmopolitan Industries
collects or people can drop their used newspapers and other papers in the bins and then the bins are collected
hm
um some of the
