[speaker002:] okay so what now what are your opinions on recycling
[speaker001:] well I definitely think we need to start recycling I think it has got to be an individual responsibility until I think if we wait uh which is happening until somebody says we have to do it it's gonna be too late
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know I've heard reports around here that the landfills will be full by the year two thousand
[speaker002:] yeah I've heard that too
[speaker001:] and that's not too far away but I don't know how it is there it is very difficult here even if you care like I do to do much I take my paper I can take plastic and paper bags back to the grocery store and I can take
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] plastic like milk cartons or if they have water in them and there's some fire stations I can take newspapers to and that is very inconvenient cause I have to wait until I have enough of them to make the trip worthwhile
[speaker002:] well see I had started saving newspapers and I have save a ton of them and uh that's I can't remember where I went to take them but they wouldn't they wouldn't take them
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah it's very hard to find a spot and then I don't know if you notice even doing that the amount of trash we throw away is incredible bottles that cannot glass that cannot be it could be recycled but there is no place to
[speaker002:] oh I know there's no really recycling facilities
[speaker001:] no we have a pilot program in Arlington going on I think in the north part of the city where they're having people separate the garbage as the trash as they put it out
[speaker002:] I think that's a good idea
[speaker001:] and I think that's what it is gonna have to come to where we're just forced to
[speaker002:] besides well like a law or whatever and that's how it is in New York or isn't it
[speaker001:] yeah I think so it's just because they have to you know
[speaker002:] um-hum you get ticketed if you don't do it right
[speaker001:] right uh-huh and I think it's going to come to that because some people will just not go to the it's it's trouble for me to do what I do I mean I am willing to do it but
[speaker002:] yeah plus you have to have a place to store all of it and see I live in an apartment
[speaker001:] yeah yeah it's very difficult like our garage is always full of stacks of newspapers and so I don't know I think there needs to be more places I also have a real strong opinion in Iowa the state I'm from
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh I believe it's gone up to a dollar now everytime you buy a container no matter what it is whether it is glass whether it's a beer can or a fifth of whiskey or a pop or whatever you pay ten cents for it and then you take it back to the store and you get it back
[speaker002:] yeah uh so that way that kind of forces you to recycle
[speaker001:] you're forced to and uh you also don't see the litter there people just
[speaker002:] yeah that's true
[speaker001:] it makes it worthwhile to take it back and I've just started drinking a new water called Clearly Canadian I don't know if you've tried it
[speaker002:] yeah I've seen them
[speaker001:] and they have on the back it's five cents okay it's still five cents and it even shows the states that
[speaker002:] um-hum that take them back
[speaker001:] yeah well what some of them are five some are ten cents I am looking at it right now
[speaker002:] is Texas one of them
[speaker001:] Texas is not one of them see so I have to throw them away cause there is no place to take glass
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] no I don't think that there's enough being done now I work at JC Penney at their corporate headquarters and we have a paper recycling
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] program that's um company wide and I do the recycling for that
[speaker001:] okay do they save like the paper they they use at the office paper good because there is a lot of waste there isn't there
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I know there's a lot of computer paper though that you can't use
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] but um we use to have uh I mean I I don't even remember how much money that they've um mean I mean the money that they've made from the recycling program they've donated it to charities but I mean they've made a substantial amount of money from it
[speaker001:] right yeah something else I think we can do is support companies that encourage like I've decided Downy fabric softener now has where you can buy a little carton
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you add water I'll I image everybody else will start doing that sooner or later but I am gonna stick with Downy because they were first you know I want them to have my business
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and I think packaging could be done much better there is so much plastic that
[speaker002:] well now you see some of this stuff and you're and then when they come out with the new things you are like uh well why didn't you think of that before
[speaker001:] yeah yeah and I think that it's just people have got to be aware unfortunately there are a lot of people that just don't care and they don't wanna think about it
[speaker002:] yeah that's true
[speaker001:] and uh I just look at it as I don't want my grandchildren looking at me and saying why didn't you do something you know I want to feel like I at least tried
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and I don't know it just may overwhelm us here when we run out of places to put it then we'll be forced to it may be too late
[speaker002:] do they not ever I mean I don't know that much do they not ever burn trash or anything like
[speaker001:] very little that's another thing and if you ever know like I know Amway I only use a couple things form Amway that it says this is burnable material well
[speaker002:] then that's pollution
[speaker001:] that doesn't do me any good because I don't have any place to burn it
[speaker002:] yeah I know I guess you run into the pollution factor
[speaker001:] yeah and then just like the glass bottles that that says on the bottle I can get ten cents but not in Texas and there's no place I can take glass to
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so I still throw away a lot of glass
[speaker002:] truly sad
[speaker001:] yeah and then the packaging really grips me you buy something it's got a great big piece of cardboard and a great big piece of plastic