our community doesn't really have any organized recycling drive
where do you live
i live in San Antonio
San Antonio
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well um i live in Garland and we're just beginning to
we we just built a real big recycling center
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that recycles everything imaginable but
as far as that um
trash pick up and stuff that a lot of the communities are doing
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they're testing that so they're really not full
full force into it but they're trying so we're attempting it
but i wish we could do more
yeah there's there's been no emphasis on recycling at all in San Antonio i used to work for the power company here and there was discussion
for a while about uh building a garbage burning
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uh electric generation plant but it just wasn't cost effective at the time
oh
and there's there's a little recycling trucks and things throughout the city but there isn't any um
advertising campaign there's just not any push to recycle i recycle my newspapers and uh aluminum my aluminum stuff
huh
right that's what i do
but uh
they make it as hard as possible it's not very convenient to do
right where they put centers and stuff like that
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yeah well we have those um which i think is one of the best things is those cash for cans i don't know if you all have those around
yes
and i really like that because that makes it real convenient because they're in almost every shopping center
and you can just stop by now everything else like the trash um
paper and
plastic and stuff you still have to go to the centers but
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but for aluminum that's real nice and i started doing that at work um i put out a
a trash can and and for people to put their aluminum cans in
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and that's really helped a lot i mean everybody's pitched in and
yeah
you know it doesn't bother them to walk little bit farther put their aluminum in a can rather than just throwing it in their trash can
yeah
so i really i really like that but people are really concerned it's just that sometimes it's not the right people
yeah
which is really really sad
because i wish we would do more at work we started
um
all the recycling stuff they're really trying i think what started it at work was that planet earth thing we had last year
yes
and um that really started a lot of stuff off but
you know sometimes it dwindles down
yeah where i work now we recycle all the computer paper
that's good
but that's about the extent of it
well that's well at least your trying something
yeah yeah
it's just yeah it would be nice if it could be more
and i'm sure that the uh driving factor for recycling the computer paper is that we get paid to do so we sell the paper back to
oh do you really
the uh to a paper manufacturing company
well that's a neat idea
well it it defrays the cost of buying the paper i think i not by much but it does defray it some
uh-huh
right
enough to make it worth our while to have several bins through out the building
sure
well that's that's really good i mean at least they're trying
yeah
yeah i know a lot of companies that waste so much that
i'm even trying you know that was one thing we noticed last week that
we had some new people move into our building
and you know the nice cardboard boxes that you move packing boxes
yes
and they were just used one time and thrown in the dumpster and i thought
i don't understand this you know we're trying to cut cost and everything like that and and recycle and all that stuff and
yeah
and here we are wasting and i don't understand sometimes the way the thinking the logic behind it
well the last time uh
someone moved offices in my building and uh the uh properties people came in with all with the good cardboard boxes not the cheap ones of course and packed everything up and moved them and left them lying around
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i i took several home because i'm moving pretty soon and they're good boxes and they were just going to throw them away
that's exactly what i did
that's exactly what i did exactly because i didn't want to waste that and it's hard enough to find good packing boxes though
yeah
hum-um
right and and these boxes are you can unfold them
right
so you know there they don't take up much storage space
that's exactly right well that's very good
yeah yeah i i felt a little guilty about taking the boxes for about two seconds until i realized they would be thrown away so
uh
right right i found about
and i thought well i was doing them a favor by taking them
i found about five um about nine of them that had not even been folded into boxes
yeah
that were in the dumpsters and i was like oh gosh so many people need so many people go to the grocery store and stuff and get those boxes
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when you know these are perfect so
yeah the ones at the grocery store half the time they've pulled the lid off so you can't use it anyway
right
right right
those and the real sturdy boxes that copy room paper comes in with the nice lids those get thrown away
uh-huh
right
and i am constantly scouting out the copy room for those boxes
that's exactly what i do
those are
those are perfect boxes to put files in
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they're good for storage and stuff like that that's what i do with a lot of my daughter's things is i'll store her
you know like her out dated cards or out of out of season clothes in them and they're just perfect
what
what i've done in the past i don't have any now but i would buy some cheap wallpaper from somewhere and cover those nice boxes with the lids
uh-huh
and you can stack them up and and leave them out and put things in them even
and they look just as good that's a smart idea
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yeah
i think i have to that that's really cute
yeah well you know it's cheaper than going and buying the kind at Target that are all ready with the little design on them or whatever
and now they
they're the exact same thing
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that's all they are they just made them look fancy
yep
save you some money
and you're recycling
yes
well that's neat well do you all have um
we have
places that um
pay for paper
to recycle i know you do yours at work but for newspaper
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but ours are real hard to find that's the one thing that really discourages me i saved paper you know i recycle paper
but they
it's almost like they don't want the paper because they don't pay
at all i mean they're real hard to find the places that pay and that's really discouraging i mean i just go ahead and take it to the the regular place where it's
you know they just accept it
uh-huh
but they um i think they should you know they want people to recycle i think it's a
you know like the aluminum you know it gets people to uh doing it you know you might you don't have to pay them a lot
yeah i live near a WalMart and there's a big uh uh
huge dumpster looking thing sitting out front in fact i think there's two of them that have several openings
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and it's for recycling and they have aluminum and newspaper and plastic and some other category i don't maybe there's two for aluminum
uh
uh-huh
and you don't get paid but it's real convenient just to chunk the newspapers in there
well that's that's good
yeah
that's good i the one thing i don't like about the newspaper also is um
like at work we have two different trash cans at your desk you have one for paper
and one for just your normal trash but in uh
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in the paper one you have to separate you have to make sure you don't throw away any of the slick paper like magazines
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you can't throw any of that away and you can't throw
certain file type things away and i just think it's such a hassle it seems like it would be
be easy to take it all i don't know of course i don't know all that about
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recycling so
probably it is a hassle but i do get tired of having to separate paper you know we
um-hum it gets to be uh i guess you have to make it a habit i mean you have to get so used to doing it that it's a habit
right
right we had uh a write up in our paper
uh this last time at work about um
they come and empty your trash every other day they do your normal trash and every other day they do your recycling trash
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and somebody was writing in complaining that the people had um dumped all the trash in the same bin
oh
and when they were questioned about it they said well we're running late or we didn't have time to do those bins or something
and that's real discouraging thinking you're sitting there working to separate it and then they
and someone else isn't going to take the time to put it in two separate bags
right right so they're they're really trying to start keeping an eye out for those you know talking to the people again about
you know separate them because that is discouraging when you
when you do that it was hard to get used to those two different trash cans
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but luckily that'll all get straightened out and
and they'll they'll start separating them because i don't mind doing that i feel like i'm doing uh
doing something for the community when i'm doing that
yeah
but anyway
well i've enjoyed talking to you
you too
well
thank you bye bye
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