[speaker001:] okay uh what's done in your area
[speaker002:] well in our area we uh had basically a road side pick-up for uh aluminum cans plastic um that's about it if you want to participate with paper um wood and other products alone that line uh different types of plastic you have to bring physically down to the dump
[speaker001:] uh different types of plastic other than food types container plastic
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] um what about glass
[speaker002:] um glass actually that's handle on the road side too
[speaker001:] so along along with the paper or or or the plastic and the
[speaker002:] along with no glass and the aluminum together
[speaker001:] yeah okay that's that's the way we do it here uh we have the addition thing of uh newspaper pickup but it doesn't include uh magazines or telephone books or just plain regular paper like computer print out just only for news print only
[speaker002:] what about cardboard
[speaker001:] that's not included that's that's completely different uh I feel you know it's kind of ridiculous you know you're only allowed to pick-up one sort of paper when you have something such as phone books which contributes a lot to uh waste paper they should pick that up as well
[speaker002:] what do you think about the value of of magazines as you mentioned
[speaker001:] yes that that would be good if they can if they would pick it up I I I put them in too because so much of the uh junk mail that you get is made of the same type of uh print uh wax print
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] that's makes it hard to recycle
[speaker002:] well in our town we've imposed um basically a sign that forces people to recycle you have to pay for all your trash all your trash bags
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] there's no more municipal trash pick-up
[speaker001:] I see
[speaker002:] and that intricate people encourages them to uh reduce there waste um and that actually had a pretty good result so for
[speaker001:] so do you feel people are uh hoarding their garbage
[speaker002:] no there um a lot of them are recycling by trying to compress their trash into the bags as much as they can
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um but for the most part it it's been a big boost to the recycling effort
[speaker001:] I see
[speaker002:] it was uh much contested because no one likes to have to pay a dollar fifty a bag
[speaker001:] rather steep I guess
[speaker002:] it it is very steep but it really forces you to think about what you're throwing out
[speaker001:] um-hum hum well what what we have you just instituted here was a um uh biodegradable type pick-up uh once a week they'll come by and out of a container that you've mark only for biodegradable plant clippings lawn clippings uh it has to be decomposable matter no uh dirt uh no bricks or anything like that uh they'll pick that up once a week and we are not allowed to put that in normal trash
[speaker002:] hum well that makes good sense what did he do turn into compose or
[speaker001:] that's right yeah they turn it to compose and where they put that I have the foggiest idea because I don't see at along side the road uh it got to be this big huge pile somewhere in the city
[speaker002:] hum yeah we don't have anything like that around here or at least that I am aware of
[speaker001:] or they just
[speaker002:] but that does sound like it could be beneficial especially in the fall when you've got about twenty bags of leaves out on the side of the road
[speaker001:] yes um what what do you fill would be a good idea to encourage more recycling
[speaker002:] um in our area as as as I mention earlier if you force people to pay for their trash they're going think twice about what they're throwing out
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] they're going to look at everything closely I know I go out of my way to recycle what ever I can um part of it is because my environmental belief but the main part is uh you know avoid paying more than they have to pay and uh I think if more people are force to make that type of decision you know as far as the pocket book they're going to recycle
[speaker001:] uh-huh what about the idea of um that some state have about force deposit on say beverage containers you think that's a good idea
[speaker002:] no I think that people uh that that that hurts people economically and I don't think that really benefits the overall recycling effort um because I know a lot of people just throw out there cans anyway regards weather it's a nickle a dime for a bottle
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um and I'm just not a big believer in that type of text which is how I view it
[speaker001:] I say um that interesting because I I I personally like the idea uh if I had uh five hundred cans saved up between soda and other beverages uh uh
[speaker002:] what I think you run into a problem there is then you have to bring the cans down to a department a a pick-up center
[speaker001:] well if they did like what they did when I was younger were all soda bottles were returnable for the most part um every store had where you turned in the bottles and the manufacture