okay so
well what kind of uh programs do y'all have up there for recycling
um around here we can recycle almost anything um we have paper and cans and uh newspaper i guess
um-hum
um and then i guess plastic and glass it's a little harder to do but you we can recycle those as well
is there a curbside service or do you have to take it to a distribution or a collection center
there's curbside but um for items like glass and and plastic it's only like once every three weeks or something crazy like that
oh okay
so you have to know what night they're doing it and you're not allowed to put anything out any other night so
right well we have it once a week they just started it not too long ago and we have newspaper and glass and then like a very select group of plastics
um but it's not real convenient like you said for lots of other things um and
it it is kind of nice though because you can put everything in together and you don't have to sort it out which is nice
right
oh yeah so you don't have to split anything up
no
oh okay
uh you just they gave us a little bin and you put everything in it there's a little separate top basket thing for the newspaper which is convenient but if you want to recycle anything other than their list you know good luck
well
uh-huh
um we have a couple of collection places around but they're pretty inconvenient to get to and and those you do have to sort and and most people don't have room you know in their house for ten or twenty different bins
for all the different sorting things you have to do
right
well i uh the last place i lived was really it was in New Jersey as well but it was um
it was really a lot hard harder to do it because um it's different depending on what town you're in basically every town is different which i think that that's crazy that it should be coordinated by the state or something but
right
well what's kind of interesting is here when the program started they
yeah
made a big deal about it but they only gave it to like five thousand houses which in Atlanta is nothing you know and it was interesting because it was the only reason we got it is because we're sort of on the outskirts of this
uh-huh
right
rather plush area so you can tell where they put the recycling uh program in place so Atlanta really hasn't spread it out very much at all yet i don't think um i guess
are you
are you
budgetary restraints
oh yeah are you living at school or are you outside of school
um no i live off campus
oh okay so it's not just the school that's doing it or
yeah pretty far off
right no it's it's the city the school Georgia Tech has it's own well has been trying to get it's own recycling program uh uh operated through the student government
okay
but there they've tried and tried to get an area allotted to them for a collection center and the school keeps saying no because uh there's a lot of people in in town homeless people who collect cans
right
right
for a living and they're afraid that that's going to attract crime onto campus having a ready supply of cans
oh
okay i thought they were afraid of putting them out of work or something
no well i don't know what what you know what their their philosophy was on that
okay
but uh that so they it's kind of a crime that we have all these students wanting to do this and no no cooperation to to get that program going
right
but
a a friend of mine and i had also thought a while back about doing some recycling on our own to make some money and i think it was interesting i found out that glass
is only worth like a penny a pound
um-hum
and when you start figuring how much glass you need to make you know if you figure you can fill a big trash can with glass and get a hundred pounds well that's great but that's a dollar
so it's not a real profitable thing for for people to do
yeah
well not for individuals but like my company uh started doing recycling because it became mandatory in the state i i think it was mandatory in the state but they did it and they started a recycling program
uh-huh
just of paper i guess
right
and in two years they saved like four million dollars
wow
um they that's how much money they got paid for their paper
yeah well now i know that i know that the same thing applies for aluminum it's much more profitable than glass
and
uh-huh
um but i just thought you know we had thought wow this would be a nice little sideline because there's every we'd been going out to the bars around here and we'd asked at three different places and nobody recycles
uh-huh
so we thought well you got this ready market you know
right
these bars with all this glass and beer bottles and yet there's there's almost no way you could make money at it
right
because the labor and the cost of gas would eat up any profit you'd make because glass is you know but i'm sure that as far as aluminum
uh-huh
