[speaker001:] um I don't know um does your do you have recycling in Atlanta
[speaker002:] uh yeah I see seen some uh there's some trucks that come around kind of like garbage trucks they have like four different big containers on them and they'll go and uh and collect collect it but I think the I think it's pretty expensive to do
[speaker001:] uh-huh do you have to do you have to do the sorting or do they do the sorting for you
[speaker002:] well from I can tell what I've seen of it they have different color containers and uh you sort of sort it out uh in your home and then put it out on the curb and they and they just throw the matching color uh
[speaker001:] um-hum into the different box
[speaker002:] container yeah yeah
[speaker001:] yeah up here like New Hampshire doesn't uh well where I am uh we don't have any recycling we don't even have a bottle bill or anything like that and that's
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] that's not real that's not real popular with the states around us because
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] the the extra nickel or what is it extra thirty cents for a for a for six bottles everybody everybody comes across the border to buy the cheaper the the cheaper drinks
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] but I I I I think that well I do some recycling like I save my my bottles and things like that but I don't think I do as as much I think I could do more
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and I there's a big problem here with like landfills
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh like they the the landfills are just are just like filling up with stuff
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I think that if if they were to recycle if I were to I guess if if there was like some kind of a program I would do it because just so that we could save the space in those things
[speaker002:] yeah well uh it's kind of funny I saw um a special on a public public broadcasting station down here and uh they were talking about recycling and they they uh I I forgot exactly where this was but they were showing just piles and piles of plastic and glass that uh was at a recycling center but it was costing them uh about forty dollars a ton to recycle and they could only get about ten dollars a ton for it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so so you know there was just uh no nothing in it for them
[speaker001:] I I was
[speaker002:] and uh
[speaker001:] I I don't know when I was in when I I was last year I went to a class and and uh we would we they they brought it this guy that uh that made let's see he made he made a lot of money working because because like in in the states like Massachusetts and Vermont and all the states around New Hampshire they put in this bottle bill do you have a bottle bill down there
[speaker002:] I'm not sure I
[speaker001:] that's where it's like every every every every can is stamped with like a a nickel return on it
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and it's like you you have to like if you can turn the can in to to any store and they have to pay you a nickel for it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but what happens is that then all these cans come running you know some stores get more cans than they sell and they have a big problem with that but
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] the law says that if they sell they have to collect
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but anyway this guy like all the like the beer distributors were having like the biggest problem and uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] he he he actually like made a business that just went around from like distributor to distributor
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] collecting like all the cans and he said like some things like the aluminum cans
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] they they could make money on because aluminum can be they can just throw that back into the pot
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and that just gets melted back up and that's not a problem but um like the plastic ones you said like you were saying they they lost like big money on because they can't recycle they can't reuse the some plastics can be reused but most plastics can't be remelded remolded or melted melted into into other things
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it just becomes more of a pain than it's worth
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but I don't know I I wonder you know should should they be making things that like just can't be reused
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh it kind of I I don't I don't and well should I be buying things that can't be reused
[speaker002:] yeah yeah it's uh uh something I think about a lot too is you know when you're buying everything is you know if it's not convenient people don't want it and usually convenience means waste
[speaker001:] I yeah well you know I I can't something I can't figure out is it do you every do you every did you ever see those big old Coke bottles you know the glass ones that were like they were kind of green
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] at at what point in time did it get to be at what you know I didn't I thought they were great but at what point in time did it get to be worse
[speaker002:] yeah