[speaker001:] it seems to be a a topic that's gonna probably take about a generation to uh catch on it seems or maybe a generation to two and we may have to do it out of necessity as far as moving that time schedule up but it does seem to be a lot of habits to break I um wasn't raised as a kid on it but my kids are and so they they tended to wanna grab the aluminum cans when that was one of the first things to do and we were doing all right there until uh the price dropped out and they weren't worth anything anymore
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and we it took us um almost a year to get a garbage sack full we just don't drink that many so as far as at home use uh we'll pick up a six pack every once in a while or for whatever occasion of Dr Pepper or something and and by the time we gathered up enough crushed cans to take it in uh at the time it was still oh about forty or fifty cents a pound and we came out with about a dollar it just really wasn't worth it yeah so they they realized you know well of course to them a dollar was a dollar at four and five years old that wasn't uh that was a big deal but
[speaker002:] and a lot of hassle all year round and cans laying yeah
[speaker001:] we decided it wasn't worth us keeping it and then um TI started keeping up with uh cans there so occasionally I'll bring whatever I've got laying around the car or the like and throw them in there at least it gets back into the system but um as far as a habit at the house uh I haven't started on anything other than just whatever the city wants to pick up have y'all got the individual containers yet
[speaker002:] no I read in the paper this week where maybe I don't know if it was was I guess maybe this week someone may start getting them if the truck that picks them up is outfitted in time
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] but I it it should be starting I would stay probably in the next month if if everything goes that uh I'm not sure all what we're gonna have to do whether we have three separate containers I really don't understand that part on what they've told you to separate everything
[speaker001:] right yeah it seemed like uh if if I recall it's been a long time they're way behind schedule on that particular part of it they were fine on the green big green containers but uh seems like they said they were just gonna have a bin
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and all sorts different types would go in there and then that they would sort it as as needed it it seemed that there was at the time anyway the thinking was that there was too much not getting sorted properly
[speaker002:] oh well
[speaker001:] and that at at the collection sites where everything's clearly labeled and people that happen to go to that kind of trouble to do it happen to do it pretty well uh those are okay to have the general public doing the sorting but when it comes down to just general purpose trash that all the houses um the success rate of getting it sorted properly seemed to be poor so they felt that having one guy just sit there and run through it real quick was better than
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] than having a household try it but I I don't know that sounds like an awful lot of labor to sort the entire week's worth of trash for a house
[speaker002:] well it'd get messy too
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] I I I know other places when they recycle they have to like wash out their glass jars and whatnot
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and uh which we're not in the habit of doing I was brought up uh you know long time ago that
[speaker001:] that's true
[speaker002:] they didn't even have cans they had bottles and you'd return them to the the grocery store and you'd get your money back and that that was all well and good and they don't seem still be doing that if they could just eliminate the cans and use glass but
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] I guess this day and age they don't
[speaker001:] yeah they don't do that we live next to a set of railroad tracks and it seemed to be a very popular thing for people driving by that highway there by our tracks to throw the bottles at the tracks and try to crash you know break them but
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh they weren't that successful so there were a lot of bottles to be returned and we just walk about a half a mile in each direction and gathered up enough to buy whatever we wanted for the day and
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah and they uh people I I think kids don't appreciate maybe the value of money that it's so little that they don't care they can get more somewhere else uh for a good many
[speaker001:] yeah just a little bit of begging will
[speaker002:] right they're the the nickels the dimes or what I suppose it might be quarter and fifty cent pieces in these days that they would get they the kids just don't seem to to care that that much about a small amount of money
[speaker001:] right well I wonder if
[speaker002:] but now we we did buy a can crusher and we are crushing cans and when we buy the soda when it's on sale for ninety nine cents so I would say in the last three years we've probably used a lot more cans than ever before um it was just easier
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] to do that than to open a large liter bottle and then have it go flat
[speaker001:] right yep
[speaker002:] so that's the main reason we're we sort of are into cans at this point rather than the liter bottles
[speaker001:] where do you take your cans
[speaker002:] well as you say it takes a while to build it up since we've had the crusher all summer we I guess we just now maybe have a bag full that we haven't taken oh I think the kids when we were on vacation they said they did take them to a a recycling place probably at one of the libraries