[speaker001:] So do you have any recycling programs there?
[speaker002:] Um, I don't really think we have anything in the works as of yet.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Uh, we're a pretty small town and, uh, the closest thing we have are bins like out in front of Wal-Mart
[speaker001:] Oh, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] that show, you know, plastics, paper
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] liter bottles, et cetera, et cetera.
[speaker001:] We've progressed a little bit farther than that.
[speaker002:] [Lipsmack] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Um, actually they have, uh, parts of town, it may have even spread all over the whole town, and, um, they will have these green bins
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and it's just as standard as a, a regular trash can that they come by and pick up and dump.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And, uh, just along with a trash can you have this, this green plastic bin, and you put your bottles in it and paper and, uh, you know, all those things that wh-, aluminum. You know, anything that can be recycled you just put in that bin.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] And, uh, I guess you can al-, and a lot of the restaurants
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] they just have, uh, places where you can throw away, especially beer places, where you can throw away green bottles,
[speaker002:] Huh.
[speaker001:] and then the brown bottles. And, uh, oh, I don't know, I guess they're, you know, clear bottles.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] So, um, you know a lot of people do have those separated. And, of course, they have the, um, dumpsters, uh, the, the igloos.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Uh, and they have those strateg-, strategically placed around the city.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] And, uh, they're, they're actually going to extend it, I think, one of these days maybe to apartment complexes and, uh,
[speaker002:] Oh, that would be good.
[speaker001:] Yeah, things of that nature. So, I guess when you live in a bigger city it, it really becomes, uh,
[speaker002:] Yeah, see,
[speaker001:] necessary.
[speaker002:] it's not anywhere near that. Uh, we, you know, as far as our little pitch in to it we do recycle our aluminum cans.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] But that's as far as we go because I take them to a girl at work, and she goes and cashes them in because, you know, I just
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I can do that for her and
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and I don't want the hassle because we have to go to another town to do it.
[speaker001:] Oh, really?
[speaker002:] Yeah,
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] see we don't have anything here in Belton. It's, it's a pretty small little town.
[speaker001:] Yeah, I remember my grandparents and I used to always get out there on the road and pick up beer cans.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And, uh,
[speaker002:] So, you know, that's about all the, that we're doing here. Uh, they're, uh, getting a little bit more on, they need to a lot a more community awareness of just what is it mean to recycle, and what can you recycle and what you can't.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Because, you know, not a lot of people do really know what, you know, what it's for.
[speaker001:] Yeah, they're doing a real good job of, uh, separating it here. And, of course, there you know you have a specific place to put your paper.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And, uh, they try to get you to go ahead and separate it, but they actually have the door to door pickup. Um, and it's, uh, I think it started out to be, um, just kind of a test, a pilot project.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And it went over so well that they just extended it. And it's almost, uh, I don't know if it's done by a private company or not. It may be. But, uh, they just go around to each, uh, door and pick it up.
[speaker002:] Wow, that's excellent.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] That's good.
[speaker001:] Let's see. Oh, and every year, of course, the phone books
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] um, they tell everybody across the city to, uh, put all their phone books in, uh, the, uh, recycle bins.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] Because, you know, phone books are pretty, well, for a bigger city they're pretty thick.
[speaker002:] Yeah, they are.
[speaker001:] And sometimes you might have two or three.
[speaker002:] Exactly.
[speaker001:] So, uh, that's, that's a big savings right there in itself.
[speaker002:] Yeah, see ours just goes in the regular trash.
[speaker001:] Yeah,
[speaker002:] It just,
[speaker001:] huh.
[speaker002:] you know, there's not a whole lot. And there are, you know, some places that will set up you know for old newspapers and stuff.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] But usually it's, it, it hasn't caught on yet. I'm hoping it will soon.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. Well, the thing about newspapers and paper, recycled paper is actually very expensive.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] So, when you see something that's on recycled paper, they've actually gone to a lot of expense to do that. It's, uh, they're not coming out ahead at all. It's, uh, it's really a cost.
[speaker002:] Huh. I wasn't totally aware of that.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] So.
[speaker001:] I mean it, it sounds good to the public but there's really a big cost incurred when you do recycle something. Now, aluminum I don't know. They may be coming out ahead. But I know,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] for a fact that the paper, uh, on that end they're not, [LAUGHTER] you know. It's just good to recycle but it's, uh, not to their advantage.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And it costs less.
[speaker002:] Huh. Well,
[speaker001:] I can't think of anything else.
[speaker002:] I can't either.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Okay.
[speaker002:] Because we're, we're at a very, you know, beginning stages, so.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] We look forward to it to get better.
[speaker001:] Well, I hope you all, um, uh, come along a little farther in the future.
[speaker002:] Yeah, me too.
[speaker001:] It was nice talking to you.
[speaker002:] You too.
[speaker001:] Bye-bye.
[speaker002:] Bye.