[speaker001:] all right uh how long have they been recycling there in Virginia
[speaker002:] um actually quite a a a while um I've lived here for six years and can you hold on just a second
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] hello
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] oh I'm sorry I must have got the other line cut off um so they've been doing that it for a while now
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and um it I live in an apartment
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and my apartment facilities there it is hold on
[speaker001:] oh have some problem with the phone huh hello
[speaker002:] okay sorry about that
[speaker001:] yeah okay you're okay
[speaker002:] yeah um
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] um anyhow they have facilities here in my apartment complex for recycling paper only um I've been recycling for maybe about two years now and at another another another public facility where they have you know recycling of glass um aluminum and paper
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh have you have you cycled plastic recycled plastic also
[speaker002:] now no and that's what I I don't understand exactly why they don't have that option
[speaker001:] we we have out here uh up until just this last year in on you are town there wasn't any really good way they had some bends around that we could find and put them in but
[speaker002:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker001:] not all that many it wasn't very well advertised but recently uh the refuse department has has uh is working on getting a system going where we will actually have uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] a bend that we put things in for recycling these other things
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so it it should be good uh I think it's a marvelous idea when you think of uh when I just think of the papers that I dump out
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] I mean there just it's such a I waste I just hate to think about it
[speaker002:] yeah now an additional thing is um where I work
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] they also have recycling there of um all white paper and of you know cans also
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh
[speaker002:] so because I mean a lot of people you know right at the vending machines they have receptacles
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] that you know you can just pop your cans in and near the Xerox machines they have places you know for your paper you know I keep a uh little box at my desk
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know and I just throw as I'm using the white paper you know I just throw it right in there and then you know they have someone that comes around and pick it up you know every afternoon
[speaker001:] yeah yeah all that's neat
[speaker002:] which you know is an excellent idea at work because I know the amount paper they go through there because
[speaker001:] yeah yeah that's right I guess one of the things I think that needs to happen is we need to be better informed about
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] about it there's needs to be more public uh service of programs or something that would let us know had a happens to it and helps us to become enthused about it because of what is happening
[speaker002:] yeah I would agree with that uh-huh um-hum right
[speaker001:] and there's I've seen a few things but not very much really and I I think that's a shame they need to uh do a little more I'd like to know for instance when I when they say uh plastic
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] all plastic what kind of plastic can you put all together or is there some reason not to uh now maybe they just sort it after they get it and throw out what they can't use I don't know
[speaker002:] exactly uh-huh um-hum
[speaker001:] but I I'd be glad to organize it if that they'd tell me what it is I'm doing
[speaker002:] um-hum right
[speaker001:] because that would that would be really helpful
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah yeah I agree with you there another thing that I like here which is I do with I have to actually go to two different recycling areas because
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] one of them is that um their aluminum cans is for um Children's Hospital for a burn fund
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] so all the monies are donated you know for the recycling to Children's Hospital which I think is an excellent idea there you know because the other public
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum that's great now that gives you a little bit of incentive there uh-hum
[speaker002:] right right and before even at work before they started the recycling plan which at work they've only been doing since January first of this year I had had everyone in my department recycling and you know I would have them drop
[speaker001:] swing them for you huh
[speaker002:] right drop their cans off in my office and then I would haul them you know here to this place for the Children's Hospital Fund
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] which got people really going into it but
[speaker001:] I think that's right I think I think helping us be more enthusiastic enthusiastic about it helping us maybe maybe using the money for something special that would be
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] like paying off the national debt
[speaker002:] uh-huh that there there you go
[speaker001:] making sure
[speaker002:] that's for sure
[speaker001:] but I I think that's right I think they there needs to be a little bit more in the area of of uh advertisement advertisement and letting public letting you understand more of what it is you're doing why you're doing it how you're it's done and what what happens to it because I think that's that would help a lot
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum right right um-hum and I'm sure you know in the near future I would think they would be coming out with more you know I've seen a definite trend you know towards more recycling everywhere you know even at McDonald's
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I yeah
[speaker002:] you know with their their use of no foam containers anymore
[speaker001:] yes I I I'm glad to see some of these things I think
[speaker002:] right I think I think it is getting more you know advertisement
[speaker001:] people are becoming more conscience all the time that it's necessary to do and that we need to
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] somehow get away from the fact that we have to have everything individually wrapped and all these things that I think that's true
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] well I think I'm that's about my uh some on recycling but I I enjoyed talking to you
[speaker002:] yeah okay well I did too
[speaker001:] uh-huh all right bye now
[speaker002:] okay bye-bye