[speaker001:] set
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] you you got the topic right okay um well where in Dallas are you
[speaker002:] yeah I'm in Richardson
[speaker001:] oh okay so you do recycling do recycling there okay
[speaker002:] yeah Richardson has um well they have a newspaper pick up once a week supposedly if it's not raining
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and they also have a couple of areas where you can take uh cans plastic and paper to uh you know dump them off there if you don't uh want to wait and have a pick up least of paper but they don't pick up the other items they don't pick up cans or the plastic
[speaker001:] um-hum are they going to later or do you know
[speaker002:] I'm not sure they only started to do the newspaper uh late last year just try like a trial basis and see how it goes so I don't know if they're going to pick up the other things
[speaker001:] uh-huh hm well I'm I'm in Dallas proper in the city of Dallas and I know they do have you know a pilot program going on but it's not here
[speaker002:] what about you um-hum um
[speaker001:] so they're not picking up anything so I mean we we collect everything we've got all these boxes in our garage for you know green glass and clear glass and plastic and everything
[speaker002:] oh where do you take them
[speaker001:] but um well there's there's a couple places unfortunately we can't find a place that'll take everything
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] um there's a lot of places to take like the plastic um shopping bags like most of the grocery stores and there's a Wal-Mart nearby that takes almost everything I can't remember what it is they don't take
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh hm
[speaker001:] and the library will take glass so we end up you know on the weekend we pack it all in the car and and as we go places we oh wait we can drop the glass off you know drop things off one at a time
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] but um and it's kind of disappointing I mean I would even be happy if they just had one you know one place where you could do everything you know it would still be more convenient than what we have now
[speaker002:] one of the people from my department I think used to take a lot of the stuff to a recycling center that was for the benefit of the Dallas Shelter
[speaker001:] hm where is that
[speaker002:] I think that was closer to downtown uh she's not here anymore but uh yeah
[speaker001:] oh I'm pretty far north I'm not I'm I'm I'm just I'm north of Addison actually
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] so I'm I'm really I'm sort I'm in Dallas but only technically
[speaker002:] yeah well sometimes we take our uh we we always keep our aluminum cans and a lot of times they take them over to one of these can banks
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah yeah I've seen those
[speaker002:] you don't get too much money back I figure it pays for the gas to take my cans over there but normally I collect oh like three trash bags full
[speaker001:] yeah yep
[speaker002:] and I take them over to that can bank and it's more fun just to kind of like crunch the cans in the can bank you don't get too much money for them but
[speaker001:] uh-huh  well you get something
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh we used to do that but again that's another stop and it doesn't take plastic bags and and all that sort of thing but um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I think that you know I heard that it was going well in the pilot area wherever that is and so hopefully they'll do it soon that would be good because we have two trash pick ups a week
[speaker002:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker001:] where I grew up we only had one a week and that was certainly sufficient so if they just do one of them will be trash and the alternate time would do recyclables that'd be great
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] so I hope they do
[speaker002:] ah I'm disappointed sometimes they're not always consistent in picking up those papers you know I seem to put them out there on Wednesday and like sometimes they come by
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] sometimes they don't I'm not really sure why they're not always consistent in that
[speaker001:] oh hm
[speaker002:] but I could certainly have uh three bins out there for you know plastic and and tin and paper whatever they were going to uh separate into and and have them pick it up on on one of the two days per week that would be easy
[speaker001:] right yeah do you have to um sort the paper and take out the glossy pages and that that sort of thing or do they take the whole thing
[speaker002:] you're not supposed to have like the coupons in there
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] um or you're not supposed to put magazines in there and you can't take newspapers now at work
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh you know we have changed our recycling at first they were kind of finicky about what kind of paper you could recycle and not too long ago they finally decided if it's anything that's paper and tears you can throw it in there because at first they said
[speaker001:] let me guess you work at TI right
[speaker002:] yeah at first they said they said no telephone books
[speaker001:] so do I yeah
[speaker002:] you know that well that's stupid and then they said no newspapers well in the my department everybody gets the Wall Street Journal
[speaker001:] I know yeah
[speaker002:] there was like a lot of paper coming out of our department that wasn't recyclable so I thought that was pretty good to expand upon it and say anything paper
[speaker001:] yeah well they and they take cans now too which is great
[speaker002:] yeah I still put my cans in with the cans I think I don't want it with paper somehow it just seems weird to me
[speaker001:] well our department used to collect the cans anyway for the Christmas tree project
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and in fact we got this past year we got all of our money for the Christmas tree because we saved cans for the entire year
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and it worked out really well
[speaker002:] well we had the the one person who used to take things to the Dallas Shelter I think that's what that was called
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] she collected she used to collect from the whole department but she took them all down to that Dallas Shelter place
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I wish I could remember that whole name of that place but it's a charity for the benefit of this shelter
[speaker001:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] uh yeah she used she used to collect them from everybody in the department she'd go up and down with her little bag collecting from everybody
[speaker001:] yeah yep yep because we would get it