[speaker001:] well I guess we're supposed to talk about what's being done about recycling
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] well lots right
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] finally
[speaker002:] really what what do you do now
[speaker001:] well we have saved our newspapers for years and years because the uh Boy Scouts our boys have been involved in have uh had a huge recycling bin over at Resurrection Lutheran Church
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and um so we've done that for quite some time but since the price of paper has gone down like it's about a fifth of what it used to be
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] so the Boy Scout troop quit doing it when the city took it over
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] so now we just put ours out for the city of Plano do you live in Plano okay yeah
[speaker002:] yes I do yeah and I'm so glad when they brought out those recycling bins have you had yours now yeah
[speaker001:] you right yes although just just about a week ago some of my volunteer mothers that um work in the library for me said they hadn't gotten theirs
[speaker002:] oh that's why I asked you I guess it you know it does go in cycles and not everyone got theirs right away
[speaker001:] yeah like yeah yeah
[speaker002:] and I I was so relieved because I've been making a real concerted effort make you know recycling the aluminum and the newspapers and even got into plastic because Wal-Mart collected it
[speaker001:] uh-huh right yeah we used to take ours there
[speaker002:] and uh my garage was just getting overwhelmed and of course I didn't go weekly so it became quite a big thing and uh
[speaker001:] I know right right I'm really glad they do it um yeah I do newspapers mostly newspapers and um plastic two liter diet Coke bottles and aluminum cans some but I don't use as many of those
[speaker002:] yes yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] I guess the ones that are hard to convince yourself to do are the ones that you have to really that are really dirty that you have to wash out
[speaker002:] yeah well I found out after washing out many a peanut butter jar that they're not a recycling number one or two
[speaker001:] uh ha
[speaker002:] uh ha so it was wasting a lot of time
[speaker001:] wasting all your time and effort and putting it in there
[speaker002:] yeah thinking I was safe in buying those jars as far as the environment was concerned
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] but uh you know but it it's not that hard now that I've got this system under control yeah
[speaker001:] got your routine down yeah well I guess there are some places um in the north in particular that um have a real definite way of encouraging you to recycle because they charge you let's see they charge you for your garbage pick up by the weight
[speaker002:] ah uh-huh
[speaker001:] so if you recycle things of course then you don't have all that weight in there
[speaker002:] yeah I do find that I don't have as much to throw away because all the bulky things are are being tossed in with the recycling and uh
[speaker001:] right that's right yeah yeah
[speaker002:] I don't know what they could do more of exactly around here right now other than uh what are some of the things they don't recycle oh one thing I thought about the other day were batteries just everyday regular batteries
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] supposedly you know leak and and contaminate the landfills and yet what am I going to do when I have a couple double A batteries to toss out and they don't take
[speaker001:] right yeah right probably going to throw them in your trash
[speaker002:] yeah that's what happens because
[speaker001:] well there are places that take car batteries but I wonder if they would take
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I mean not that it would kind of a pain to you know drive over somewhere special just for that for two little tiny batteries but
[speaker002:] yeah yeah but I think the city one could possibly look into that or something
[speaker001:] yeah that's true
[speaker002:] uh if they've got these bins for all the other little items I'm sure if people people will have batteries uh you know quite often to to toss out
[speaker001:] right that's true um when I was home those few days around Thanksgiving and the um the truck came by well we all ran out to watch it because you know we'd never really seen it pick up our stuff and one thing I thought was interesting was that the driver had something on his belt that he uh scanned across the little bar code on our bin
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh oh is that right
[speaker001:] as soon as he took the stuff and he just pulled this thing kind of out of his pocket and just you know scanned it so I don't know why what that was reading it for
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] but um they must be trying to keep track of you know who is doing it or what I guess I don't know another
[speaker002:] registering our garbage yeah wouldn't it be nice if you could get a credit back at the end of the year
[speaker001:] oh for those who are really cooperating now that would encourage it
[speaker002:] yeah well except I know it would just not be cost effective they've already got all this money out on hired um getting the trucks and hiring people to work them I'm sure they couldn't afford that but um
[speaker001:] sure sure but the garbage um now there is just one garbage man that comes
[speaker002:] yeah oh yeah
[speaker001:] on the truck instead of two so that's interesting um also slightly off the subject but our our big green garbage thing got stolen
[speaker002:] oh it did goodness
[speaker001:] uh-huh and we called we called the city and um they they brought us a new one and they did not charge us and they said that between three and four hundred have been stolen
[speaker002:] oh my goodness it is sad you know they paid for those things anyway or our taxes do
[speaker001:] isn't that sad you know it just oh and they must be yeah really expensive I mean of course we were hoping we weren't we weren't going to have to pay for it you know but I mean what would somebody do with them
[speaker002:] um-hum oh how there