[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] all set actually I'm in Plano too I say Dallas area when I'm talking to people elsewhere
[speaker001:] that's okay that's okay it it's more uh concentrated so they know where you are
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um anyway uh I know here in here in Plano some of the things that we do are um Kroger and some of the other stores too have said if you bring your bags back to uh to the store to recycle then they'll pay you a certain amount of money and that's one thing that started in the community
[speaker002:] they actually pay you money for that hm um Brookshires up in Allen
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh you bring your bags back you know they uh the plastic bags back or the paper bags you put them in the one of the receptacles there but I didn't realize some people are actually paying you for that hm
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah I know Kroger will do it and I think Albertson's does it sometimes I'm not sure um and and yet I know that uh some of the stores will actually help the community not pay you the money back but will pay the the uh community like through the schools or things like that
[speaker002:] um-hum interesting
[speaker001:] so um that's always helpful and I know that we have we have the the can the can different can banks around the city
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] that you can go to and do that um one of the ways I don't know uh if this would be helpful it said on the the computer what do I think would be helpful and I don't know if it would be helpful or not but I know on Monday the the garbage men pick up like just um uh any limbs or any extra trash that you might have
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and that might be an extra day to put out uh things that might be recycled if we had a a certain colored can to put them in or or something in the city to put like either glass or newspapers or whatever
[speaker002:] yeah I think they already do that out east um they have to it's a little bit more difficult because people have to remember okay today's glass okay tomorrow's plastic and all that but I think that's the way we need to go it's uh it's pretty bad all these years we've been
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] especially in this country all the uh the plastic and the paper and everything we just used to throw out
[speaker001:] yeah uh I know getting a newspaper everyday I know I could just you know do that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] because I have to pick it up and it just goes out with our trash and I guess I'm not as um recycling minded as I should be but uh that goes out with the trash and it really could be recycled
[speaker002:] yeah about six months ago I started and yeah and uh so what I do is uh
[speaker001:] so did you tell me
[speaker002:] it's not bad you just have to have a place to keep everything but uh it you'll be amazed if you ever start doing it just put your paper in the same place every day and it'll start stacking up take your glass um you know pickle jars or or whatever um uh liquid jars you know and just rinse them out a little bit and put them all in a place and uh plastics
[speaker001:] um-hum now do you have to take like labels off of those jars
[speaker002:] no from what I understand uh you can leave the labels on um although I rip rip them off I don't I don't scrub them or anything I just tear them off
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah take them off yeah
[speaker002:] throw the lids and everything out but uh put all the glass in one place and plastics like milk jugs uh orange juice jugs things like that
[speaker001:] soda both liter sodas can you do that okay
[speaker002:] yes those also um and then of course uh cans Coke cans whatever
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] but uh I haven't been down to the recycling center yet to find out exactly what they need or what they're taking all that I've just read a lot about it and I'm keeping these big piles of it right now to try to dump it out this weekend in fact but uh you'd be amazed how quickly it all stacks up there's a lot that we throw out
[speaker001:] I I know with our family that we could really be helpful if we could find a way to just um get it into different categories like that and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I I don't know what it would take to to get my children to start working on it I I have two older ones that probably would go along with the if I had it arranged so that it wasn't a big project you know
[speaker002:] it's yeah it's not a big deal you get used to it one let me tell you one interesting thing when I went back to the store and uh
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] and I said hey um I understand y'all are taking these bags back uh you know what do you do with them and they had told me they look through them all and throw out the ones that don't belong there and then you know go and recycle the rest and I said what do you mean the ones that don't belong there
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and they said well you know people come in and put anything in the receptacles and what I found out is if you look at the bottom of those bags Kroger or whatever the plastic ones they've got numbers on them
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh
[speaker002:] yeah and it's it's got the little recycle symbol and inside it it's got a number like um bags from Drug Emporium have a four