[speaker001:] okay um let me see unfortunately we are not much recycling we don't we don't do enough I know we don't so
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh although uh lately I've been uh a friend of mine that I spend a lot of time with does recycle quite a bit and it's it it's uh interesting to watch some of the things that she does and then she's almost had an impact on me um where she doesn't say anything to me when she comes to my house but I I can kind of tell it bothers her so uh just unconsciously I've I've stopped buying a lot of um um paper plates and paper cups and I don't do that anymore I don't know why I just don't I just from just from socializing with her so
[speaker002:] how do you uh how uh is recycling done in your community is
[speaker001:] it really it there's not a whole lot there really isn't uh I know in my mother's neighborhood in San Antonio each
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] each house has they're they're given three baskets and they put them out on a certain day of the week
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] and each uh home does participate but we really don't have anything uh close in this area that that do anything and and some of the communities that do the residents are having to pay to participate in it which really doesn't make sense
[speaker002:] oh right over here they um have several private companies that you can take uh recycled materials to but um if you want to take them all to one place they have uh the first Saturday of every month they have certain places that you can drop them off that's what I do um and I I recycle aluminum glass um newspapers
[speaker001:] yeah that's good
[speaker002:] so it's nice to have you know one place that you can take them all to instead of driving the glass to one place and
[speaker001:] yeah yeah that's another thing you have to go to different places to do that
[speaker002:] right right so it's so that's nice it would be it would be really nice if they uh came to the house to pick it up and they just were talking about a bill in Tucson about that but uh uh it didn't go through
[speaker001:] uh-huh but I heard that most homes that do participate in that are having to pay a monthly fee to do that which uh I don't know it just doesn't make sense to me
[speaker002:] so right I guess what they what they were talking about here was um was reducing the garbage collection in order to make that up or something you know um
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] so I guess that's one option
[speaker001:] yeah that's good that's good
[speaker002:] I guess one thing they're working on now is recycling plastics too like um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] have you noticed that on the bottom of plastic goods they have this little number now that tells what kind of plastic it is
[speaker001:] yeah no
[speaker002:] yeah I guess the problem with plastic is there's so many different kinds that you can't recycle you can't just throw all plastic into one recycler
[speaker001:] oh I didn't know that
[speaker002:] yeah so now they're like marking um they're I don't know there's six seven eight different kind of plastics and they they mark on the bottom what kind it is
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so I guess that makes it easy to recycle and then they're they're um trying to make plastic goods that don't have a bunch of different plastics in them you know that are that are only made out of one kind of plastic so that that makes it easier I guess
[speaker001:] um-hum well that's good I I you know unfortunately Garland doesn't have doesn't they don't I don't know they don't do anything like that or I I you know I read those little slips that come in with your utility bills
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] or your uh garbage collection and they haven't you know talked about doing something like that
[speaker002:] where does your friend go to recycle
[speaker001:] she lives in Garland and I'm not sure where what she does but she's uh oh she's very very heavy in that and she takes her own bags to the grocery store
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um she has no I really I really don't think she has any paper products in her house um
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and just a lot of things I've learned off of her that to start doing and she does make a lot of sense just her whole house is like wow
[speaker002:] yeah I guess that's how it gets passed on you know when one person you hear it from another person and then uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and then you and then you pass it on so it seems to be catching on uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] slowly but surely I guess
[speaker001:] yeah and uh my little boy has watches a program that was really neat I sat and watched him you know the Barney you know the little um I don't know if you know the little character Barney they had one uh on that kind of type of thing and how children can
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] can do that and how to save water brush you know when you brush your teeth turn the water off and it's really caught on and he's only four and he's really caught on
[speaker002:] wow that's neat that's neat yeah when you
[speaker001:] and keep the refrigerator door closed and that kind of thing he has really caught on so that's really neat
[speaker002:] well when you start early I guess