okay uh what's done in your area
well in our area we uh
had basically a road side pick-up for uh aluminum cans plastic
um that's about it if you want to participate with paper um
wood and other products alone that line uh different types of plastic you have to bring physically down to the dump
uh different types of plastic other than food types container plastic
right
um what about glass
um glass actually that's handle on the road side too
so along along with the paper or or or the plastic and the
along with no glass and the aluminum together
yeah okay that's that's the way we do it here uh we have the addition thing of uh newspaper pickup
but it doesn't include uh magazines or telephone books or just plain regular paper like computer print out just only for news print only
what about cardboard
that's not included that's that's completely different
uh
i feel you know it's kind of ridiculous you know you're only allowed to pick-up one sort of paper when you have something such as phone books which contributes a lot to uh waste paper they should pick that up as well
what do you think about the value of of magazines as you mentioned
yes that that would be good if they can if they would pick it up i i i put them in too because so much of the uh junk mail that you get is made of the same type of uh print uh wax print
uh
that's makes it hard to recycle
well in our town we've imposed um
basically a sign that forces people to recycle you have to pay for all your trash all your trash bags
um-hum
there's no more municipal trash pick-up
i see
and that intricate people encourages them to uh reduce there waste
um and that actually had a pretty good result so for
so do you feel people are uh hoarding their garbage
no there um a lot of them are recycling by trying to compress their trash into the bags as much as they can
uh-huh
um but for the most part it it's been a big boost to the recycling effort
i see
it was uh much contested because no one likes to have to pay a dollar fifty a bag
rather steep i guess
it it is very steep but it really forces you to think about what you're throwing out
um-hum
hum well what what we have you just instituted here was a um uh biodegradable type pick-up
uh once a week they'll come by and out of a container that you've mark only for biodegradable plant clippings lawn clippings
uh it has to be decomposable matter no uh dirt uh no bricks or anything like that
uh they'll pick that up once a week and we are not allowed to put that in normal trash
hum
well that makes good sense what did he do turn into compose or
that's right yeah they turn it to compose and where they put that i have the foggiest idea
because i don't see at along side the road
uh it got to be this big huge pile somewhere in the city
hum yeah we don't have anything like that around here or at least that i am aware of
or they just
but that does sound like it could be beneficial especially in the fall when you've got about twenty bags of leaves out on the side of the road
yes
um what what do you fill would be a good idea to encourage more recycling
um in our area as as as i mention earlier if you force people to pay for their trash they're going think twice about what they're throwing out
um-hum
they're going to look at everything closely i know i go out of my way to recycle what ever i can
um part of it is because my environmental
belief but the main part is uh
you know avoid paying more than they have to pay
and uh i think if more people are force to make that type of decision you know as far as the pocket book they're going to recycle
uh-huh
what about the idea of um that some state have about force deposit on say beverage containers
you think that's a good idea
no i think that
people uh
that that that hurts people economically and i don't think that really benefits the overall recycling effort
um because i know a lot of people just throw out there cans anyway regards weather it's a nickle a dime for a bottle
um-hum
um and i'm just not a big believer in that type of text which is how i view it
i say
um that interesting because i i i personally like the idea
uh if i had uh five hundred cans saved up between soda and other beverages uh
uh
what i think you run into a problem there is then you have to bring the cans down to a department a a pick-up center
well if they did like what they did when i was younger were all soda bottles were returnable for the most part
um every store had where you turned in the bottles and the manufacture
