[speaker001:] this recycling it's uh I don't know what you all are doing but we are not doing a whole lot here in Arlington about it uh they have a trial section that uh
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] part of the city has been given these uh plastic garbage cans where you are suppose to separate and put it out
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I don't happen to be in the part of the city that does that though
[speaker002:] right here in Philadelphia the city for residential customers has certain they had a trial section that was having curb side recycling with special containers
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and then they decided to go ahead and phase it in piece by piece so every year a different piece of the city gets added to the list but in my neighborhood they have had voluntary recycling for several years now
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you on the first and third Saturdays of every month you take your bottles and your newspapers and lets see bottles newspapers to certain corners in the neighborhood
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and there is a farmer's market that collects the plastic they uh
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] it use to be a firehouse
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but they are trying to get some urban renewal going in here and trying to make the area safer I live near the University of Pennsylvania where I'm a grad student
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and it's not the safest neighborhood there is so they are trying to get urban renewal going and they one of the things that this farmer's market does is collect plastic
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and they use that money to keep up the building and organize events and that kind of thing
[speaker001:] oh that's interesting the grocery stores here usually have some bins for the plastic bag recycling and some of the plastic jugs and bottle type things
[speaker002:] right they have that for the plastic bags here too yeah let's see and the
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] we don't have very uh I do not know of a very good place for glass here but I don't I would not know where to take glass
[speaker002:] uh-huh how about aluminum cans do they recycle that
[speaker001:] oh yes they'll recycle those we have places for those and uh for a while they were the newspapers there were places but I think they had so many newspapers now they are kind of discouraging us from taking them any place
[speaker002:] right well the only part the thing is that it's probably isn't profitable to just from a standpoint of making new paper to recycle
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but where you end up having a savings is at your landfill last so much longer
[speaker001:] yes I know and we have that problem but uh
[speaker002:] down home I know my folks um live in South Carolina and they have had some landfill filling up problems and they the county built a new landfill and a site that wasn't geologically proper
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so that the landfill consideration is a good reason that probably communities are still going to end up paying to have the paper taken away but they just won't have to build landfills as often
[speaker001:] I see
[speaker002:] another things that they are doing now at home but in the offices here is recycling of paper and and that is done by separating the white paper which is I guess is a higher quality
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] from the miscellaneous paper
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] and well they also recycle aluminum cans
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] they have every office has two little cardboard boxes for putting in the white paper and the mixed paper
[speaker001:] oh that's a good idea
[speaker002:] and big trash cans down at the ends of the hallways that when they get filled up you can go take them down the hall
[speaker001:] oh but do you all have any place around there for uh used oil car oil
[speaker002:] oh you know that's one thing that kind of bothered me I now when I I use to get my my oil changed when I go down to South Carolina there has been a Goodyear tire store that has been servicing my car for a number of years
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and they have pretty economical rates but now in South Carolina there is this mandatory waste recycling fee and my daddy would like to to get the used oil to pour over fence posts
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] so you know to make the fence posts last longer and weather better but the oil the the uh Goodyear store won't even
[speaker001:] right uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] they say they can't give you the oil they say it's against the federal law now and that they have to charge the waste recycling fee
[speaker001:] my goodness
[speaker002:] so the only way you can get in South Carolina anyway and they say it's because of federal law you can get your used oil back is to do it yourself
[speaker001:] huh well we do ours ourself and we take it to a uh