[speaker001:] well the main uh two recycling efforts I see in this neighborhood are at work um somebody got the idea of collecting all the phone books together and it's probably several tons of them
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh white paper computer paper and stuff like that and the other one would be the local grocery stores have got um newspaper bins I just recently noticed a magazine bin which is really nice and now I've got a place to dump all these things but a really prominent sign is that until recently they accepted those plastic milk jugs
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and they're probably the main you know source of those things in the first place but they've quit taking those now
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] which is a little disturbing
[speaker002:] uh is that because they can't do anything with them or uh
[speaker001:] I don't know I was under the impression that they were converting or that the two liter plastic bottles could be um chipped down and used for a lot of things like uh carpet industry's pretty big in the northern part of the state here
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I've heard that some of the companies make their carpets completely from that stuff but I don't know if there's any use for those strange opaque milk carton type um plastic jugs or not
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah I don't even know what they're made out of urethane or
[speaker001:] yeah they seem to be a pretty nasty kind thing whatever that is
[speaker002:] something like that yeah yeah we've actually got uh see there's several different bins at the work place and at home we've got several different recycling things going on and um uh at home we actually have a private sanitation company that asks us to separate out all of our stuff and they take everything from car oil you know engine oil
[speaker001:] oh very good
[speaker002:] which is a hard one to get get rid of
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] to you know plastic milk jugs and bottles and stuff like that so we have it all sort of separated out in bags by the time he comes around he comes around a couple times a week then we have um there's a recycling center down at uh park not far from us uh where if you really have big loads you can go in and separate it yourself so there's all uh you know all the different categories categories of stuff I don't know if they break it out in plastics between milk jugs and other things but I think it's like plastics glass paper
[speaker001:] yeah hm
[speaker002:] and then uh at work this actually kind of a funny story uh for a long time the the guys who ran the company I work for we're kind of resistant to uh any kind of recycling because they felt like it was just going to cost them money or something
[speaker001:] yeah that's kind of reasonable
[speaker002:] and uh so they put up uh eventually you know there's enough pressure and they put up they put up a couple different uh bins one of them was for paper which everybody gets everybody gets a paper bin in their office but there're so many restrictions on what you can toss in there that it's almost more of pain than it's worth
[speaker001:] um yeah
[speaker002:] no you know no clips no staples you know and so it's kind of it's kind of a pain you have to get get in that habit
[speaker001:] yep
[speaker002:] and uh the other ones uh they have for aluminum cans they also have and this is sort of the funniest part they had a styrofoam recycling thing going on
[speaker001:] I understand
[speaker002:] and they were actually yeah they were actually um in the uh staff meetings that we used to have there was this guy who's job it was to sort of track that and every month he would actually report how much money
[speaker001:] never heard of that one before
[speaker002:] of this company made on recycling and so he'd say you know and I'd like to report that we made twenty five dollars and two cents on styrofoam cup recycling so we were we were always making jokes about you know maybe we could fold that over into computer purchases or something like that you know so by the year you know twenty fifty you know we could buy a or something you know with but uh
[speaker001:] that's an interesting one never heard of styrofoam recycling before
[speaker002:] yep so
[speaker001:] that seems like a prime candidate for recycling though
[speaker002:] yeah for uh well they they actually took sort of the reverse approach to start with they just decided well we won't we won't let anybody use anything styrofoam so they stopped buying coffee cups and stuff like that which is a real pain you know because I mean not everybody uh wonders in with their coffee cup I mean a lot of us haven't been you know
[speaker001:] yeah and those packing peanuts are hard to avoid in a business too
[speaker002:] yeah yeah so anyway so we we have a lot of things lot of things going on I actually I'm I'm a big uh I'm a big recycling fan I think it's pretty important actually hear about all these stories about uh plastics and stuff showing up out in the ocean you know choking animals and stuff like that it's pretty pretty gory
[speaker001:] uh yeah yeah they'll last forever
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] all these millions of years nothing has um evolved to take care of that stuff
[speaker002:] uh there there's actually a company out um uh straight west of us in Strasburg Virginia that makes arm rests for cars in mass quantities in fact virtually every piece of trim that you see on the inside of your car Japanese or American these guys make
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] and uh so it's a giant plastics plant I think they have a seventy like a seventy five percent market share or something
[speaker001:] do they use a lot of recycled goods for their raw material
[speaker002:] uh I think they use a lot of recycled plastic but the funny thing about it is is that they have because of certain