[speaker002:] okay what are you are you doing anything in Utah on recycling
[speaker001:] well in uh our particular area uh we're not other than uh they have a local store that you can take uh bottles and cans and different things to
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] in their parking lot and uh in the winter we haven't been doing that but uh they don't uh that's about all they're doing
[speaker002:] is it a small town
[speaker001:] yes it's a rural area
[speaker002:] that makes a difference uh here in Dallas they're trying to
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] to start some curbside recycling I think they're doing a test uh personally my husband and I do plastic and glass and newspaper and cans but we have to uh take them you know to to areas and the problem that I'm finding is that uh a lot of the places I've been taking things have now discontinued the recycling policy like it's hard to find a place to take newspapers anymore
[speaker001:] um-hum yes so that's uh that's basically what happened up here and then uh with all the recycling the price of aluminum cans went down
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] yeah it used to be about sixty cents a pound and so people were collecting them and taking them in to recycle uh to get money for them now it's down to about nineteen cents a pound
[speaker002:] well I noticed a difference uh we go to the Kroger store uh here to take our aluminum cans and I noticed a difference you know I'd be getting perhaps a dollar for whatever I took in and I think the last bunch I took in which I didn't think was much smaller was maybe twenty six cents
[speaker001:] yeah that's that's what's happened and I don't know if that's from recycling I I understand it is but here uh we do we do recycle our newspapers and give them to the scouts and they uh they're able to make some money uh that way but I have a son in Illinois who uh they pick it up they have a a recycling uh garbage uh pick up where they have different uh receptacles where they put it in they have some for the cans some for the bottles and newspapers and then they have the regular garbage and uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] this truck comes before the garbage truck and picks uh and has separate bins to put all the glass and the plastic and all that in that seems to be working quite well there that's uh in uh Illinois
[speaker002:] well you know what is so sad is that people are finally I think willing to do something about this and then all of a sudden uh the the demand isn't there you know it's too expensive to recycle but I personally feel that we're going to have to
[speaker001:] yes uh-huh
[speaker002:] pay the price you know whether the government subsidizes it and I'm you know I sorry to the government government get involved in too much of anything else like that but something has to be done we're just uh we're using our natural resources we're filling up the dumps and
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum  well I've that's what they in the local the local paper here they were talking about that uh half about half the uh the material in the dumps is newspapers
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] they could recycle that uh more than they do then uh um we'd be able to save a lot of trees and everything else so I've been I I I'm all for it I just don't know uh I know my son uh in Chicago where he has this they have uh uh they have to pay extra to have them pick it up even though and and so that's kind of a a burden on my uh my son even though they they put it in different containers they still have to pay extra money to do
[speaker002:] uh-huh well and I know uh too my mother lives in a rural area also and it she would have to go like thirty miles to recycle anything and so course so of course she she doesn't and plus uh it's difficult for her to
[speaker001:] and uh um
[speaker002:] drive around just all that much so in a case like that you know they have to make it a little bit easier for people
[speaker001:] yes they do
[speaker002:] to do that
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] and um I'm hoping that they do this curbside recycling I'll be willing to pay a little extra you know if they'll go ahead and pick it up quite frankly it'll save me money in gas running around all over town
[speaker001:] right yep boy that's true
[speaker002:] and I take my uh paper I always get paper bags and I take them back to the grocery store and use them again
[speaker001:] hm right
[speaker002:] so you know little bit here and little bit there I guess it all helps
[speaker001:] yeah yeah it it really does if we could just get uh people uh all over to do it now I know in uh south of us about a hundred miles south in Utah they do have a uh area where uh they bring all the garbage in and they uh they do have places to recycle and they really encourage this and uh you can bring it and you have different areas um that's a small yeah well it's next to Provo Utah I don't know if you're familiar with Utah at all but anyway
[speaker002:] not a lot but I've heard the name Provo before
[speaker001:] it's where Brigham Brigham Young University is uh this
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] uh there they seem to be having success and but it is a uh it's done by the it for profit making for these people
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and they of course are