so well what what are you guys doing with recycling
uh
well i mean in DC there's a law uh that was recently passed that like um
you have to it's a law i think that organizations
have to provide recycling i guess recycling bins they have to recycle it's a law to do it
yeah they just they just did the same thing up here uh the whole county built a uh uh incinerator actually only two thirds of the county built it
right
and they also of course they had to the New York State EEC the environmental people mandate that you have to recycle things so anybody who wants funding or doesn't want their landfills closed and sued
has to uh recycle
it's like um i mean personally i've never been a recycling nut in terms of like i don't i don't go out of my way and i think like they put uh receptacles around campus and the dorms and that makes me
um more apt to do it because it's there it's more convenient
right
yeah a lot of people up here the exact same way you know they won't lift a finger
and uh it hasn't gotten around here that you know you go to any store or something and there is a trash can there isn't a bin for glass a bin for
right
it's it's really just on the verge it it hasn't quite happened yet but that you know i was on vacation a couple places uh
uh Utah had some bins
yeah i mean i'm looking right here there's a waste bin for waste i don't know i guess they recycle i guess they can recycle
normal waste i'm not really sure and there's trash cans too i mean generally when i'm right when i if i go by the waste bin i'll put something in there if it fits they've got cans and bottles um and bins for paper
so you wouldn't walk around for a long time with a can in your hand because you couldn't found a uh a bin for it
no
no not really i mean
toss it in the first place that it that you could find
yeah i mean like the right now i'm in uh our student center studying and i'll go out of my i'll walk up get up from my table and walk out of my way i mean well they're right near the trash can so i'll i'll toss it in the bin but um
as far as if i'm walking in the street drinking a soda and i finish it i'm going to toss it in the nearest trash can probably
i mean it's convenient it's it's there if the the recycling bin is not there i'm probably i'm if it was there i'd use it
right well i think well maybe that's a good way to uh promote recycling is just to make it more available
yeah
yeah
exactly i mean even in my in my dorm it's in the basement but i pile it i let i let them pile up in the trash in my uh in the garbage in um a giant bag a a shopping bag and then uh take it down in the basement and toss it in the uh recycling trash can
um but yeah i mean more receptacles uh around on the streets even would would um make people do it
i mean if it's there they're going to do it still i mean some people won't even go that far out of their way
there are people who are pretty ignorant and i mean or are really set in their ways
yeah i guess you know my mom she always recycled everything
yeah
so i'm use to it but
if i was use to just throwing things away it would be a really tough habit to unlearn
yeah
so maybe you know the next generation will be a little bit more uh conscientious than we are
yeah i'm sure they will i mean with uh the way things are going i mean uh it's going towards a more green
type of thing
green thinking should call it
people more aware
more aware they need to save the environment and all that
course you are on a college campus where people are more aware than the general public
right
oh definitely i mean there's been plenty of uh up roar about the uh Marriott using um styrofoam cups and styrofoam plates and that kind of thing
now now that's really tough because you read stuff and you can't tell whether a styrofoam plate is actually more or less wasteful than a paper one or some other plastic
yeah
cause i mean yeah the paper ones are have plastic coated and they're probably even worse i don't really know
yeah who knows what's not
harder to recycle
and uh you know if you put them in a landfill they take up the same amount of space
yeah
because the paper doesn't break down either
well i think it's possible to recycle styrofoam but it's more expensive
um
they do have reusable cups that people can uh i mean basically you've got carry around this cup if you want to if you want to be uh environmentally um conscious
and they i believe they give discounts on on drinks if you have this cup so that's kind of incentive
you have a discount on your on your on your drink instead of the regular price or whatever
well that that's good i mean God forbid you should actually you know have a cup and then wash it out once and a while and reuse it
yeah
right
yeah like
imagine that
