[speaker001:] uh I'll start um up here in Rochester or down here in Rochester recently they put in a law for mandatory recycling in our area which involves collecting newspapers and and bottles and cans and a recent new statute that they just put into effect requires us to open and sort every single piece of our junk mail and actually separate the uh standard nonglossy paper and uh from the glossy stuff
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and uh throw the plastic windowed envelopes away while recycling the junk cover letters for all of the sweepstakes entries and all this nonsense
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so it's been uh hectic it takes me a lot more time now to go through my mail
[speaker002:] oh my Lord here in uh Framingham they just started recycling and we have to mostly they're doing the plastic bottles which we have to soak the labels off of and you know milk containers orange juice containers and uh they're doing the newspapers and we have to sort out the ad pages and just you know the regular newspapers go in
[speaker001:] huh hm
[speaker002:] and uh we can put like regular white paper in and they've started recycling in the school systems white paper only not yellow paper or lined paper you know just the plain white paper
[speaker001:] well they they've got up here where we can recycle our magazines our our um uh any correspondence paper anything that is not of glossy
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] um finish except for magazines they'll take magazines they'll take um uh most kinds they take plastics I think beginning with numbers one and two on the little bottom uh on the bottom of the bottles and the like and of course we've had to bottle bill here with Mario Cuomo for many years
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] so we've I actually what I did is I went out and I got a separate trash barrel where I put my recycled papers in and we don't have to separate out like for example a Kraft envelope
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you don't have to sort that from um a sheet of typing paper um I basically just kind of keep pushing down on it and I I try to get it all in there every week and then take this fifty pound barrel out to the end of the street every Thursday so they can pick it up and haul it away
[speaker002:] um-hum that's what everybody's complaining about they gave us these big restorage bins you know they're plastic they look like milk crates only about they're about three times as long
[speaker001:] um-hum are they the blue buckets we have them
[speaker002:] yes Framingham has a lot to catch up on and um you know it's quite a pain in the neck
[speaker001:] well you know what happens what we hate is when the wind picks up everything blows everywhere because and and people won't put things on top to hold the papers there
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] or they'll or even worse is when it rains
[speaker002:] oh God
[speaker001:] they don't like it if you give them soggy they won't take it if it's a soggy magazine uh we we have these stores up here that do the same thing as far as bottles and that if they're not washed out
[speaker002:] right they're getting to be real stinkers here in Framingham too they used to take them no matter what but now they have to be washed out and everything else and it's like nobody bothers anymore
[speaker001:] well it it is it's terrible because uh we have a chain store here Wegman's and they'll only accept bottles from uh products that you've bought at their store
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so if you're shopping in two grocery stores you have to remember okay um
[speaker002:] this came from
[speaker001:] yeah because they won't well we don't sell this so you know we're not gonna take it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um oh it's terrible we've just recently um they've been they've been fighting more and more because they wanna they wanna have it so that we can give them all of our junk mail
[speaker002:] right that would be nice
[speaker001:] in it because it's terrible I mean I normally normally I open just bring the mail bucket I get every day and just hold it over the trash can and just start shaking you know
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] no I'm not interested in this no I'm not but now we have to open every single piece up and sort it
[speaker002:] oh that really
[speaker001:] so you know you don't fill out Publisher's Clearing House you know you got oh let's see now are these
[speaker002:] yeah you have to take all that stuff out
[speaker001:] yeah are these stamps uh recyclable and we have this book that tells you what is and what is not recyclable
[speaker002:] oh my Lord
[speaker001:] so you got to like scan down let's see now it's
[speaker002:] that must be hysterical it sounds really funny we have people here they started locking up private dumpsters
[speaker001:] well this doesn't
[speaker002:] because everybody was taking their trash to the dumpsters so they didn't have to recycle
[speaker001:] oh yeah it's it's been it's been rough you know they they've been complaining because