um anyway we're supposed talk about recycling basically what what your personal opinion is on it uh this is this is really for a speech research project they're doing
so um i don't know Florida is pretty good about recycling isn't it
well they just kicked it off down here in in Sarasota county um
oh they did
they had been doing it they started first in Sarasota City um you know which makes up a pretty small portion of the county actually and um they've got these i don't know what if you're familiar with Sarasota county at all
um-hum
yeah
not quite no
they've got these on it's it's county wide program now and what they've done is they've broken everything down into garbage uh yard trash
um-hum
uh-huh
plastic cans cans and glass
okay
and then uh paper
okay
which in the paper it's just um newspaper and corrugated cardboard is the only thing you're supposed to put in there no slicks um
yeah
okay
oh that's that's good let me ask you this do they require you to presort it
yeah
okay see that's something in Minneapolis they're really strict on in terms of you got to put everything in its own little bag and really presort it really
you know tightly but when i lived in Orlando it's like you could put almost anything in there and they'd just sort it out for you it was really pretty good if you're lazy like i am so
um-hum
yeah yeah
yeah right well you know um i talked to this girl who um she's a an an acquaintance of mine and and she's involved with uh
oh what is the name of that company it's not Amway but it's the other big vitamin company Shaklee
oh okay yeah
okay and um and and she's just Shaklee crazy you know because it's her business and everything and um
you know and she asked we were talking one day and and she asked me a couple of questions you know and she and and what she said that that generally the problems that people have with being environmentally conscious is number one
they don't want it to change their lifestyle and and like you know especially make it anymore complicated or any extra work or anything which that's that's what recycling at home sorting does you know i mean it's a little extra work and uh
yeah
right
uh-huh
it can actually turn out to be a lot of extra work because what they do what they do here in Sarasota county is they've got
it can yeah
okay you put your garbage in a garbage bag and you set it out by the curb if you have yard trash you put your yard trash in some kind of container
right
um or you can have bundles up to a certain weight and certain certain dimensions tie them up and put them by the curb well the plastic cans and glass they give you this little tub and it's about a foot and a half deep and it's about one by one and a half foot wide and long
yeah you got to tie them up and everything and
right
this is a little container and they have another one the same size that one's red and then they have a blue one the same size for the paper goods
uh-huh
uh-huh
and so like
you know you would have to rinse out your pop cans otherwise you got bees and ants and you know and and if you've got uh food containers or anything like that it's a big problem so not only do you
exactly
it is you know big hassle
yeah
yeah that's true i mean up here they give you one one of those containers and you put everything in it
um-hum
so it's like if if you use a lot of stuff you it's like well you know let's say if you're a partying kind of guy and you drink you know like a couple of twelve packs maybe over the weekend
um-hum
it's gonna be hard pressed to pressed to put all your recyclables in that one place you know so it's kind of a pain in the butt
this is true this is true
but um i don't know that's definitely one thing they could do to make it easier is to just you know have have those garbage people that make how every many make twenty twenty or thirty bucks an hour have them do a little bit of the sorting
um-hum
you know and and maybe come up with a better system make it a little more convenient
but i
yeah they've got these large garbage cans that you can rent from the waste management company here um if you wanna have a nice garbage can you know and it's on wheels and it's big
yeah
oh you can actually rent those
yeah
okay that's interesting yeah up here the the city provides them kind of like
yeah
well i think in i think in the city they do but out here in the county you have to rent them
oh okay so
and they just add it on to your water bill or something
so where exactly are you in terms of of like Sarasota are you north of Sarasota or
east of Sarasota um-hum
east okay and Sarasota is on the west coast
yeah
okay like south of Tampa right
yeah
okay i'm
yeah about an hour about an hour south of Tampa
yeah that's right
okay
um yeah well i i listen to this talk radio station down here and it's it's really they they i don't if you ever listen to talk radio but
um occasionally
those guys they just kind of get into
to stewing stewing stewing up trouble you know with the callers and things like that but they get into some really good conversations sometimes you know and some of it sometimes it's serious and they have some good feedback and all that stuff and
yeah
yeah
so i'm listening to that i kind of got an idea that i thought would be good was and this kind of fits into the uh the aid program the welfare program that's going on right now
uh-huh
and it's like um
