[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 uh we're pretty small town and um the closest thing we have are bins like out in front of Wal-Mart
[speaker001:] uh-huh 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 um actually they have uh parts of town
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] it may have even spread all over the whole town and um they have these green bins
[speaker002:] um-hum
[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 um you know all those things that aluminum you know anything that can be recycled you just put in that bin
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and uh I guess you can also 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 and then the brown bottles and uh
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] oh I don't know I guess they're you know clear bottles so um you know a lot of people do have those separated
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and of course they have the um dumpsters uh the the igloos
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh and they have those strategically strategically placed around the city
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and uh they're they're actually gonna extend it I think one of these days maybe to apartment complexes and uh
[speaker002:] oh that'd be good
[speaker001:] yeah things of that nature so I guess when you live in a bigger city it it really becomes uh necessary
[speaker002:] yeah see it's not anywhere near that uh we uh 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 and I don't want the hassle because we have to go to another town to do it
[speaker001:] yeah oh really hm
[speaker002:] yeah 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 and uh
[speaker002:] yeah so yeah that's about all that 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 because
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know not a lot of people do really know what you know
[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:] what it's for yeah
[speaker001:] and uh they try to get you to go ahead and separate it but uh 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 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh they just go around to each uh door and pick it up
[speaker002:] wow that's excellent that's good
[speaker001:] yeah let's see oh and every year of course the phone books
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um they tell everybody across the city to um 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 and and sometimes you might have two or three
[speaker002:] yeah they uh 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 it just you know there's not a whole lot and there are you know some places that
[speaker001:] yeah hm
[speaker002:] we'll set up you know for old newspapers and stuff but usually it's
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it it hasn't caught on yet I'm hoping it will soon
[speaker001:] um-hum 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:] hm 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
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but I know for a fact that the paper uh on that end they're not you know it's it's good to recycle but it's uh not to their advantage and it costs less
[speaker002:] yeah hm well
[speaker001:] I can't think of anything else okay
[speaker002:] I can't either 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 but that's it
[speaker001:] well I hope y'all um uh come along a little farther in the future
[speaker002:] yeah me too
[speaker001:] it was nice talking to you bye-bye
[speaker002:] you too bye