[speaker001:] well would you like to go first or shall I
[speaker002:] well as a science teacher I been encouraging recycling for a long time and uh we collect things at school such as foil
[speaker001:] we have different communities
[speaker002:] and cans and glass to a certain extent uh I coach an OM team and we save everything the kids at school bring some things in but not as much as I'd like and I have recyclings bins at home
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and we've had a uh we save foil which I think a lot of people don't realize they could sell along with the aluminum I mean aluminum cans
[speaker001:] I think it's true yeah and and there are some areas where I believe they limit it they want you to just strictly go with the cans because of the different content but I think you're right the more often you can
[speaker002:] well Reynold's aluminum has this big balls of foil competition thing going and I don't know where we're supposed to turn it in another science teacher at school is in charge of that and got all the materials on it but we're saving foil and accumulating balls of foil in our room
[speaker001:] that's great do you have um curbside pickup in your community as well
[speaker002:] not yet it it is in some communities but it isn't here and it is experimental in some areas at this point they're trying it out and deciding what what they're gonna do with it
[speaker001:] um-hum we just started it this year and it's really nice to be able to have that convenience as opposed to having to go to a local dump and you know take your recyclables I know that I am much more motivated when I know that they'll come pick it up because there can be so much that you load in your car as to as to when I had to get
[speaker002:] that's true my husband gets irritated sometimes because of the even though I bought recycling bins
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and we keep our cans in one thing and glass in another and paper in another it once it gets full getting it loaded into the car and taking it is a pain
[speaker001:] um um-hum oh it is and it's dirty and
[speaker002:] yeah and uh sometimes you go to those recycling places and like with cans often times there's a long line uh you know if it's one of those where you get change for your cans
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] now if it's just a donation type of thing like at the library or some places like that sometimes people'll just dump their stuff at right at the front they don't go to the back of the
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] like if it's a truck or whatever for paper
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and then everything's just starts getting piled outside which is a pain because that's not what's supposed to be happening
[speaker001:] right it seems like it would be better all the way around if there were more curbside recycling
[speaker002:] I think so too I I am uh in hopes that that will be successful and that they will decide to go ahead and and spread it to our neighborhood as well
[speaker001:] the one thing that they don't recycle uh pick up they actually don't care if we mix together the aluminum and the bottles we put those all in one big bag and then put the paper goods separately but the one thing they don't pick up are the plastic goods you know um those big milk tubs and that constitutes a big portion of our trash so I would hope at some point those things would either
[speaker002:] um-hum that's true
[speaker001:] stop being manufactured or that that they would be able to figure out a way to recycle those economically
[speaker002:] some of them are recyclable and I started trying to save those but we couldn't find a place to dump them
[speaker001:] right yes
[speaker002:] and so we just had to throw them away um
[speaker001:] they say on the cans or on the not the cans but the um the containers in fact that they are recyclable but I've I'm the same with you I haven't been able to at least not convenience probably outside the city limits or something
[speaker002:] well I think I was talking to someone who lives really almost on the other side of town said she knew of one place where you could go and so once a month they made this trek with all their recyclables but they also have a pickup uh and and they would take everything but that is it used to be such a pain and it's so far away from us and that's the only one she knew of
[speaker001:] um-hum  you have to be motivated to do that when you're that far away after a point
[speaker002:] so I I guess what we've decided is that we're doing our part by recycling three and going out of our area way but to have to go clear across town for plastic because
[speaker001:] yeah well the fact that you're doing it at school with the with the kids is a great idea too because then they're also encouraged to learn about how to do that
[speaker002:] and there's a a little booklet called uh Fifty Things Fifty Ways You Can Save The Earth have you read that
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh I like that yes uh-huh
[speaker002:] yes well I read some of those to the kids from time to time so that they get some of the ideas uh from that but they are a lot more into recycling than they used to be um
[speaker001:] um-hum the children
[speaker002:] the the children uh-huh because I teach middle school
[speaker001:] oh is that the kids that you teach uh-huh
[speaker002:] and it's uh surprising some of them aren't but that probably goes right into their families but there are even groups of parents that are Recycling Coalition type deal where they're really making speeches to the PTA and the Dad's Club and everything trying to get more parents involved
[speaker001:] um um-hum
[speaker002:] so it's um
[speaker001:] that's great
[speaker002:] it it's on its way if we could get more support through the public utilities
[speaker001:] um-hum and I think when the government the local or the the state government attends to support it the more happens I know that in our hospital I work in a hospital I'm a therapist and just about three years ago when we started recycling everything um they not only recognized that they could save money with all