[speaker001:] hi good morning do you have recycling in Sachse
[speaker002:] good morning yes we do we've got um a pickup twice a week that they come out and they have their own special bin that they hand it out to everybody and they take it uh-huh
[speaker001:] do oh really and it's twice a week
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] really we have recently started uh a bin program here in Plano where uh used to be we we put all of our trash in green bags and the trash men came out twice a week and picked up and now they have uh these large green containers and you have to put your trash that you don't recycle in there and then they haven't started curbside recycling yet but they're but they're planning on doing it very soon apparently the trucks that they had um lined up they needed the parts for Saudi Arabia and so that put off the program for a while but uh do you recycle
[speaker002:] oh um uh my kids do put it that way they they've been recycling cans for extra money so that's that's been their summer money and they're fixing to go to Disneyland so
[speaker001:] do they uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh oh well that's great well that's the way we started too my daughter was going to Camp Goddard um which is through the Plano school system you know in the fall
[speaker002:] so yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] couple of years ago and she had to earn money for it and she was too young to babysit so that's how she started she started recycling cans and from there we now recycle glass and newspapers and uh aluminum cans and plastics uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] really is is is that the same way as with the aluminum cans where you go and they weigh it or whatever and
[speaker001:] no the the only thing we get paid for are the aluminum cans um the rest of it we just do because
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] my husband has become hooked on recycling and so you know we don't get paid for that but that's okay you know that it's it's not that much of a bother really you just have to rinse out your bottles or whatever and we use a lot of two liter bottles
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um and like milk cartons and things like that it's amazing how much plastic you generate
[speaker002:] yeah I was amazed at how many cans that we got uh because when the kids first went down I said that you know that's great and I was thinking you know maybe I'd help supplement it you know when they turned them in but
[speaker001:] yeah yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] its amazing how many cans you go through
[speaker001:] yeah it really is yeah it really is well all that stuff and how much how much we have reduced
[speaker002:] and how fast they accumulate
[speaker001:] our waste you know that we we're generating a week um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I know our neighbors when we first went to this bin program said oh there's no way you know we're going to have to have pickup twice a week they were real upset but they weren't they were only picking up once a week and we said to them if you recycle you'll you'll you know you'll go two weeks without having to put out the green container and uh it's it's really amazing the other thing he does that my husband a real stickler about is we don't collect our grass clippings
[speaker002:] yeah really
[speaker001:] no he he got a little mulcher thing it's just a little attachment for the lawn mower
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and we mow once a week you know no no more often then that and then the clippings just get mulched up and then just lay on the on on the um on the lawn and it's amazing it's amazing we don't collect any of that and that that has cut down a lot in what we throw out
[speaker002:] yeah well well we don't ever we don't catch it either mainly because my husband rarely has time to mow the yard so if it mows gets mowed I do it normally and I can't mow the yard with the grass catch on it it's too heavy
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] so I just mow I just mow it and leave it and it just soaks in
[speaker001:] yeah sure it does sure it does it really does and it actually they say that you're wasting fertilizer if you're not uh if you're catching your grass clippings that that's that much fertilizer you have to use because it does fertilize the lawn it's amazing
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah oh I like it better doing it well one it cuts down on my mow time anyway and you zip through it quicker
[speaker001:] yeah yeah uh-huh that's true that's true that's true well I I really think you're going to get hooked on plastics and paper before you know it
[speaker002:] probably we probably will
[speaker001:] it's it's really not that much trouble we keep a large plastic uh just a you know a garbage bag in the garage
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and as soon as we use something you know we crush it up and put it out there and then you know every few weeks we have recycling a recycling center like near Wal-Mart they're they have the containers that you can just go over there and drop it in and it's really no trouble
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh I feel like at least we're doing something
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know uh um I read a book one time or a magazine a magazine article and they said something about how you don't realize even just your small contribution it seems like a small contribution but it's not if everyone were to recycle just their newspapers they would save save thousands and thousands of trees a day
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] a day just from not throwing out your newspapers and uh when you read that you think well gee maybe it is a big deal you know
[speaker002:] what what makes me sick is is when they show the the dump sites
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know and and how big they are or like in New York the barges that that go up and down the the river and they don't have any place to put it and it just floats in the and it's like ugh
[speaker001:] uh-huh yes yeah yeah yeah yeah and that's and that's really not necessary
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] it really isn't if everybody would do just a little bit it would make a big difference it would make a huge impact so I'm excited about the recycling program in Plano I I can't wait for them to get it started um because that it'll be that much easier for us you know like I said now we have to take it over to to Wal-Mart it would be real nice if they just came by and just picked up um
[speaker002:] yeah it it's it's convenient out here for them to do
[speaker001:] now what what do they pick up it's just
[speaker002:] they pick up the the plastic the glass and the newspaper uh-huh
[speaker001:] oh they do uh-huh and do you have to sort that or do you just put it all in
[speaker002:] and they will do the aluminum no you just put it in the one bin and and I guess they do the sorting but um they'll do the aluminum cans too but we don't give them those the kids keep those so
[speaker001:] right right so you're doing that now you're doing the newspapers and the glass oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh-huh well we don't we don't take the newspaper to begin with when neither one of us are home to to read it so we don't have the newspapers but the the plastic and the glass
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] at first when it first started it it it was hard you know because you're just used to throwing everything
[speaker001:] uh-huh my husband would come home and go through the trash and say
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] you threw this away you know he would get he would get all upset and I'd say it's just such an automatic reaction and now we think before we throw anything away I mean it's really funny we we really
[speaker002:] it is
[speaker001:] once you get into the habit of it it's okay it's just it's just making it a habit that's hard
[speaker002:] oh I know well the kids have even got to the point where they if they see anybody going in the trash can with a can you know they they're oh no don't do that and they go to the sink they rinse them out and they put them upside down they let them drain and and then uh after a couple of days
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] they take them all outside and I put them in a big bag anyway and then they dump the bag out and then they crush them so that's their activity thing they go out there and crush so
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh tha t's fun yeah yeah yeah oh that's a lot of fun that's a lot of fun well that's great well I'm to hear you're doing that
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I my sister was here recently from Connecticut and they have a deposit on all their bottles and cans
[speaker002:] oh really