[speaker002:] um are you from this area
[speaker001:] I'm from Dallas yeah
[speaker002:] oh okay I'm in Garland so well I'm in Dallas right now but I'm living in Garland um
[speaker001:] okay um-hum
[speaker002:] well I don't know if you know but Garland has got a real big recycling center that in fact we went to yesterday you drive up and you take the stuff out of your trunk and they have different bins for the different materials like clear glass and colored glass and plastics and uh they have all the different plastics separated by those little symbols on the bottom that's pretty neat my my daughter is four and she's real interested in recycling so we're we're trying to promote that because she thought we just put them in a special trash can and threw them away but
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] we went to the recycling center to show her what we actually did with them uh does Dallas have a curbside recycling program yet
[speaker001:] um well I don't know if Dallas is Richardson does
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] um they started with newspapers and uh of course aluminum cans and and bottles and plastic
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I didn't know there were different types of plastic though
[speaker002:] hum yeah um like soda bottles are one kind one type of plastic and milk jugs are one type of plastic you can tell it's got it'll most of the recyclable containers have a little symbol on the bottom with little with the arrows around it that tells whether it's a one or a two or a three
[speaker001:] um-hum oh
[speaker002:] it's it's just different kind of plastics like the clear plastic is different from that milky looking plastic know that's what the different types are
[speaker001:] oh okay yeah it seems to be made out of something different
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yes I I know there's a long scientific name but it's like polytechnochloride and all that fun stuff um I like
[speaker001:] uh um-hum
[speaker002:] I don't know if if they do it all over but our Kroger does a a newspaper recycling every Saturday you can drive up and they have one of the clerks out there no the bag boys out there um that will take the papers newspaper out of your car and they'll put it in their little bin and they do the recycling I mean they collect the newspapers and their plastic the plastic grocery bags
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] which I think is pretty neat that's something since we all have seem to have an abundance of those plastic grocery bags I know we use them for trash can liners and a lot of other things
[speaker001:] hum that's right yeah um-hum lunch bags and
[speaker002:] yeah yeah in fact I have one today it's um-hum the only problem with those is sometimes they get holes in the bottom
[speaker001:] right yeah they didn't
[speaker002:] and it's like whoops there goes my chips okay fine
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] now I in fact did you happen to see twenty twenty the other night
[speaker001:] uh no
[speaker002:] they did a program or the one of their articles was on recycling and or it was actually on a a town that has a dump that they charge other cities or towns to come in and dump their trash there they have made so much money from that that they built they bought a brand new fire engine and when the fire engine was delivered the fire house wasn't big enough so they mought bought a new or built a new one paid for it in cash with the money that they've earned from this landfill
[speaker001:] um-hum oh
[speaker002:] they have built up one mountain they call it Mount Trashmore they built up one mountain covered it with grass and put ski lifts on it and in the winter they put snow on it and they charge to ski on it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so the city gets the money from that they built a golf course at the bottom and they get the money from that it's like that's it's a it's Riverview Ohio or some place up there
[speaker001:] wow um-hum
[speaker002:] but it was I thought it was a pretty neat idea they I mean their city hall looked better it was nicer than Dallas' and they only have fourteen thousand people in the city
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] and they like the trash so I like well okay but I thought that was pretty neat it it would be nice if more communities could do that but you have to know from beginning and you have to have the space to do it and
[speaker001:] yeah they'll run out of space before long
[speaker002:] yeah see that's well they're already planning a second mountain so they're gonna get going to be called the Twin Peaks I was like uh-huh go back to the TV shows
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] this it would be nice if more communities could get really involved in recycling oh it's we I know like I said I've got a two year old and a four year old and that's my daughter thinks that anytime she sees newspapers bundled up they're being recycled so it's like well no honey so that like so that was one reason we went to show her
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] what people did with their their stuff when they recycled it and try to explain well yeah you melt down the cans and you make them into new things and you get the paper all wet and you make it into new paper and
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] that's fun trying to explain that to a four year old oh so do y'all go ahead and
[speaker001:] right yeah they don't even know that paper comes from trees yet so
[speaker002:] well yeah she that was the her next question was how do you grow paper
[speaker001:] how do you grow paper
[speaker002:] was like well from trees um that's why you have to cut down trees and why you have to plant more trees
[speaker001:] um-hum and how do you grow aluminum
[speaker002:] yeah exactly um well let's see um we really don't but and then she was like well what do you do with the glass well
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] you crunch it up real small and then you melt it down well what if it breaks well okay it it it was an interesting weekend trying to explain all that fun stuff to her
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but at least she knows that that is something that people need to be doing and she got our baby sitter to start recycling her newspapers and cans because that's all she talked about so I guess what
[speaker001:] um-hum