[speaker001:] okay so well what kind of uh programs do y'all have up there for recycling
[speaker002:] um around here we can recycle almost anything um we have paper and cans and uh newspaper I guess
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um and then I guess plastic and glass it's a little harder to do but you we can recycle those as well
[speaker001:] is there a curbside service or do you have to take it to a distribution or a collection center
[speaker002:] there's curbside but um for items like glass and and plastic it's only like once every three weeks or something crazy like that
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] so you have to know what night they're doing it and you're not allowed to put anything out any other night so
[speaker001:] right well we have it once a week they just started it not too long ago and we have newspaper and glass and then like a very select group of plastics um but it's not real convenient like you said for lots of other things um and it it is kind of nice though because you can put everything in together and you don't have to sort it out which is nice
[speaker002:] right oh yeah so you don't have to split anything up
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] uh you just they gave us a little bin and you put everything in it there's a little separate top basket thing for the newspaper which is convenient but if you want to recycle anything other than their list you know good luck
[speaker002:] well uh-huh
[speaker001:] um we have a couple of collection places around but they're pretty inconvenient to get to and and those you do have to sort and and most people don't have room you know in their house for ten or twenty different bins for all the different sorting things you have to do
[speaker002:] right well I uh the last place I lived was really it was in New Jersey as well but it was um it was really a lot hard harder to do it because um it's different depending on what town you're in basically every town is different which I think that that's crazy that it should be coordinated by the state or something but
[speaker001:] right well what's kind of interesting is here when the program started they
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] made a big deal about it but they only gave it to like five thousand houses which in Atlanta is nothing you know and it was interesting because it was the only reason we got it is because we're sort of on the outskirts of this
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] rather plush area so you can tell where they put the recycling uh program in place so Atlanta really hasn't spread it out very much at all yet I don't think um I guess
[speaker002:] are you are you
[speaker001:] budgetary restraints
[speaker002:] oh yeah are you living at school or are you outside of school
[speaker001:] um no I live off campus
[speaker002:] oh okay so it's not just the school that's doing it or
[speaker001:] yeah pretty far off right no it's it's the city the school Georgia Tech has it's own well has been trying to get it's own recycling program uh uh operated through the student government
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] but there they've tried and tried to get an area allotted to them for a collection center and the school keeps saying no because uh there's a lot of people in in town homeless people who collect cans
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] for a living and they're afraid that that's going to attract crime onto campus having a ready supply of cans
[speaker002:] oh okay I thought they were afraid of putting them out of work or something
[speaker001:] no well I don't know what what you know what their their philosophy was on that
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] but uh that so they it's kind of a crime that we have all these students wanting to do this and no no cooperation to to get that program going
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] but a a friend of mine and I had also thought a while back about doing some recycling on our own to make some money and I think it was interesting I found out that glass is only worth like a penny a pound
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and when you start figuring how much glass you need to make you know if you figure you can fill a big trash can with glass and get a hundred pounds well that's great but that's a dollar so it's not a real profitable thing for for people to do
[speaker002:] yeah well not for individuals but like my company uh started doing recycling because it became mandatory in the state I I think it was mandatory in the state but they did it and they started a recycling program
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] just of paper I guess
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and in two years they saved like four million dollars
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] um they that's how much money they got paid for their paper
[speaker001:] yeah well now I know that I know that the same thing applies for aluminum it's much more profitable than glass
[speaker002:] and uh-huh
[speaker001:] um but I just thought you know we had thought wow this would be a nice little sideline because there's every we'd been going out to the bars around here and we'd asked at three different places and nobody recycles
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so we thought well you got this ready market you know
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] these bars with all this glass and beer bottles and yet there's there's almost no way you could make money at it
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] because the labor and the cost of gas would eat up any profit you'd make because glass is you know but I'm sure that as far as aluminum
[speaker002:] uh-huh