[speaker002:] topic is recycling today and actually I'm pretty hot about the topic right now yes I am
[speaker001:] oh you are you're you're into uh recycling
[speaker002:] I'm into recycling I've got several friends who use me as their recycling drop off matter of fact
[speaker001:] um-hum what materials do you recycle
[speaker002:] I recycle glass plastic and aluminum also paper and plastic bags
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and I uh in Dallas we recently had a report on the news in the evening about what's being done with the recycled the recycling materials
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and green glass and several other items but green glass in particular is being tossed into the landfills and I got really hot about that because my husband my husband drinks a lot of ginger ale and it's packed in green glass
[speaker001:] so so you're trying to take action to have that changed
[speaker002:] well yeah I'm I'm racking my brain thinking okay where can I what can I do to take action on this the only recycling plant I think in the south is in Atlanta
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and they're paying I think eighteen cents for every hundred pounds of green glass
[speaker001:] right so economically it's not a situation where you're going be able to attract a lot of attention
[speaker002:] no I'm not but I've got
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] good gosh I've got probably twenty or thirty pounds of it in my yard right now
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] waiting for a recycling place to take it to and I would really be disturbed if I found out that the place I took it to was going to just put it in the landfill I mean I could have done that
[speaker001:] well I think um that is kind of becoming one of the drivers now the fact that with all the recycling that took place the price per pound has declined I know aluminum in our area one year ago aluminum was
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] forty five cents a pound and now it's twenty last time I went it was twenty two cents a pound
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so it uh there's not a lot of money to be made but it's just a question of trying to help the environment
[speaker002:] no well that's the that's the thing is I uh I would rather help my environment and uh when I turn in glass and aluminum I turn it in to my church which has a community center
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and the community center uses the money to help with an after school program to help keep kids off the streets and to to give them a fighting chance in the world in regards to education and I think that's a real worthwhile project and
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] that's really what got me started recycling was this uh community center
[speaker001:] hm yeah where where I work we recycle paper that's about it
[speaker002:] so do you which kind of paper computer paper
[speaker001:] yeah any any um noncolored noncolored or nonfilm type paper just white paper and that sort of thing
[speaker002:] oh any uh-huh oh uh-huh but do they recycle computer paper
[speaker001:] and
[speaker002:] I mean like the the green and white barred
[speaker001:] uh oh we don't use that kind of paper any more no we have perforated
[speaker002:] oh you don't use that paper okay
[speaker001:] for personal printers and then like LaserJet type paper
[speaker002:] oh yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] we don't use the green bar type paper any more
[speaker002:] the old the old green bars um-hum
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] yeah because our our church also recycles computer paper and I don't know why I was thinking it was just the old green bar style as opposed to
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] even the personal uh letter sized
[speaker001:] well I would guess that your church is probably at a point where they're not really breaking even on their recycling I mean
[speaker002:] uh well
[speaker001:] unless they get volunteers who have people who have trucks and that sort of thing
[speaker002:] yeah we have volunteers and there's not that it's not that wide of a participation participation just yet
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so although with my friends helping we we contribute quite a bit of glass we all have children and quite a few of the children are in baby food
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and those baby food jars believe it or not really add up fast
[speaker001:] right well there are neighborhoods in the Atlanta area where uh you have specific trash bins to put recyclables in and then they're collected on a regular basis
[speaker002:] so oh yeah curbside recycling
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] yeah they have that in Houston and in Dallas and I saw another report where in Houston they take the bins and they load them up into the truck in the separate areas in the truck
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and the truck goes and dumps all of it into one landfill that got me heated up too that got me real heated up a friend of my mother's told her about that and she was telling me about it and then I saw a report on TV too and I thought why are we going through this trouble and I had a report tell me why we are we go through the trouble because everybody's worried about the environment and now that we have uh the the smaller the lay people worried about the environment now we have to get the businesses worried about using the recycled product that not that many businesses are
[speaker001:] right