[speaker001:] are they doing a lot of recycling out in Georgia
[speaker002:] well um at my uh workplace they are we have uh places for aluminum cans and we have uh everybody's been issued a separate trash can for uh recyclable recyclable paper let's let's see them get that word straight uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] as far as the community goes uh it's pretty much voluntary nothing's been done um I don't where I live I live in an unincorporated area and we don't have any uh we have just private uh garbage services and uh uh as far as I'm concerned I I guess I should do it but being lazy I don't if if somebody made it easy for me to separate my trash and pick it up I would more than gladly participate uh
[speaker001:] yeah I it it is it is to some degree inconvenient I'd have to say that
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] uh around here they've given us mine already got run over um it it looks sort of like a milk crate a little blue milk milk crate and I have two kids and it's not big enough it's it's kind of it's kind of silly and what you do is you put out paper like paper bags and newspaper and cardboard and that you put separately and you also put out in this little ridiculous container any cans or bottles you have you know like your Campbell soup cans and your milk cartons and that kind of stuff
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and then the rest you can just you throw out and the town picks it up I've heard of communities where you have to separate your garbage and then put what's left in a clear plastic ga bag so they can kind of look and see if you're throwing out what you shouldn't I thought that was pretty amusing
[speaker002:] have the garbage police looking after you I guess
[speaker001:] I imagine I don't know
[speaker002:] uh well I used to live in California and um just before I left they were um some communities were making that uh mandatory and uh um fortunately I was in a I was in an apartment complex and for some reason we just threw everything in the dumpster that was all right
[speaker001:] well you know it's funny we just got back from a trip to California visiting some friends uh near San Francisco and San Jose and we'd see these signs on the road that said garbage pickup two exits down or something the apartment for the apartment dwellers they didn't make it easy to recycle at all what they did was um you would bring it to this garbage place that they designated and the Lions Club or you know some community organization would do you the favor of picking it up from there you really had to go out of your way to recycle
[speaker002:] yeah you know and most people probably don't wanna carry a couple of bags worth of garbage in their car a few miles uh I mean it's all it's a good idea we should all do it uh but um if it were from a practical viewpoint from a selfish viewpoint if communities made it easy and convenient for you to do it they would have a lot more participation in my opinion
[speaker001:] well around here I it's not too bad because on Tuesdays you put out your paper and your cans and and plastic things and they go away so that I mean that's not too tough to put that at the end of your driveway
[speaker002:] yeah right
[speaker001:] uh my friends in California have this special garbage fill where they collect all their soda cans and they kind of leave it near the dumpster knowing that the neighborhood kids will grab them because they can sell them or something for recycling
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh gee you haven't
[speaker001:] so they just leave it out for the vultures to take
[speaker002:] gee kids around here I don't think would pay well wouldn't pay any attention to it they'd the dogs would get to it before they would I would imagine
[speaker001:] oh well the soda cans where I live are good for a nickel a piece
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] so if you bring them to the local supermarket they have these can crushers and you know you throw all the cans in one at a time it takes time a lot of time and uh you push a button and you get a nickel for every can because someone you had to pay a deposit on it when you bought it
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and you find these old old men and these bag people collecting all these things and hauling them in in big garbage bags and they just like take up one of these machines to to get you know couple of money uh bucks for beer or something
[speaker002:] is that a city or state law that uh requires it to be recycled or
[speaker001:] yeah it's a state well New York state does it and I know Vermont a lot of the eastern states do it
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] so you get a lot of old people one old fellow had crates of beer he made friends with a bartender a bartender at some bar and he gets all the beer bottles because the guy can't be bothered with it and he said he bought himself I said that's pretty heavy for you isn't it and he says well I just bought myself an old station wagon to cart you know this is a real business for him he's making big bucks
[speaker002:] gee well I I guess if you can buy in bulk it so to speak
[speaker001:] well I guess at a nickel a shot if these people are retired and they've got nothing better to do I mean they can come away with ten fifteen dollars at a haul I guess
[speaker002:] well I bet that's resulted in uh it it would seem to me that's resulted in some cleaner highways I would imagine
[speaker001:] well you you do find people picking through the garbage pails at the beach you know my own kids have been guilty of that till they found that the bees were attracted to the Coke cans and that was the end of that
[speaker002:] surprise surprise
[speaker001:] I think it's a fair you know for an eight year old to get three dollars it's like wow
[speaker002:] gee well that's uh well that you know a state law like that would probably encourage people down here uh to do it uh I mean I I don't know