uh actually it took me quite a while to get someone uh about six minutes so i have had some time to think about this and you know what is been done and what's could be done and should be done
um
i think up to this point and time the problem with uh recollection or waste what ever
is that it is sort of on a voluntary uh bases were you know have to actually except
personal effort to make it happen you know like take your papers to the
um-hum
uh recycling center you take this uh one place or another and um in Portola Valley where i live
the i gets i use garbage company i don't know what they do in Mountain View but uh
yeah we have our own
uh they have a program that uh they send a truck through
basically you don't have to do anything all you have to do is put your papers
uh out put your bottle out in a bag put your paper out in a bad and they do the recollection for you basically they come by in a cycle quite a bit like garbage pick-up
um and in fact
yeah that that that also what they do here in Mountain View in fact there is um uh for each area like for our area there is a person who a recycling block leader where i don't know if it's that way were you where they put up a sign
um telling people in the community that it's uh
the recycling day coming up the next day so that people are aware of it and so people are it's a reminded to tell people to do that and yeah where even uh an official recycling block black liters of
i see
oh okay
for our area the other i now some people living in New Jersey and they said where they live
um its mandatory that you do recycling and if the garbage people and i don't know how thoroughly they they check this but if they find certain essentially contra banned um
the garbage is inspected
things in your uh
yeah basic basically your garbage is being inspected if they find certain contraband things in there you can be fine for it it
oh that's interesting
yeah i i thought that was really amazing and it uh it's sort of another way of uh uh encouraging or try new uh enforce that that type of um proper behavior
well i think the only way to make it really successful is to make it as easy as possible for people and i i think that uh practice here uh you know i lived previously in Dallas up to uh a year or so ago practice here of
sort of making it an automated part of garbage pick-up uh seem to be a step forward
yeah i think it i think it's true and i think that um
do you think it would help if there were um financial incentives like
you know were people bring the um uh there cans and um and you get a penny a can or something do you think those type of uh remediation are to
well my sister-in-law lives in northern Wisconsin and they have a financial system there actually i can't recall exactly what it is but you have uh sort of a free pick up of sorted garbage if you sort it and it's actually pretty tedious
sorted or sorted
sort of sorted not free pick-up the uh free pick-up of sorted garbage uh but you its actually pretty
probably some of that to
nitpicking how you have to sort it uh and for sorted garbage uh indiscriminate garbage there is a fee oh a rather exorbitant fee
um-hum
oh really if you mix and match things improperly
uh
well uh uh uh it i guess in it this is also a subject inspection as you well mention but uh i a it basically on an all name basics if you this the
uh sorted stuff that you put out is uh quite a healthy fee for for picking that up and i think it's free or something like that for the stuff that is sorted
huh
yeah around here also i'm in Mountain View and i presume in
this whole area i expect that the kind of pick-up that that you have in Porta Valley and we have here are now very common uh at least in this area and we also have um uh day when there's um
uh two days a year when there's hazardous waste
um drop-off were we've dropped off things like cans of paint that are in or garage and drop-off um other things
hum um-hum
uh and its a different sort of recycling but it's also uh very helpful to keep stuff from going down the drain and into the water system and
wherever else that goes and i don't know what they do with the one that happen seems like it's a uh significant problem for thing that you don't won't people to put down the drain and i don't i don't know if those go into landfills or
right
i don't know
landfills actually don't seem like a good solution either for them
yeah
yeah it would be nice if we had a continuing cycle here where every
