[speaker002:] so what do you think about uh the recycling programs in Atlanta Julie
[speaker001:] I don't believe that we're the recycling program here is just terrible I mean it's hard to find places to go I mean Kroger does a couple things they I don't think they do they do newspapers
[speaker002:] I don't know there's there's big bins out there I don't know if they ever get I I really don't know what the details are there should be someplace where you could call and find out as a matter of fact I'm pretty sure there's a place you can call and find out the closest you know thing to you but I think there should be some kind of curbside service that's the only way I could really
[speaker001:] yeah the one in Florida is so cool because they pick up everything they pick up newspapers and uh you know milk jugs and aluminum and tin cans you know like soup comes in and stuff
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] they pick up everything
[speaker002:] during the summers like the around where I live the uh homeless people seem I mean they all have like shopping carts and stuff and they'll go around and collect cans and aluminum stuff and so we used to just save them up and then they'd come around and we'd give them to them
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] but when during the winter time I think they they move south or something so
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I don't do that anymore and the the recycling at Georgia Tech like that um outside the uh student center
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] they never empty those things
[speaker001:] I know it I know it it piles up
[speaker002:] they just overflow so what's a guy to do you know
[speaker001:] I just don't know
[speaker002:] I asked myself
[speaker001:] I just don't know and now they have like bins and stuff that are a little more convenient because mean until seven o'clock you got to pay to park at the student center you can't really unload all your stuff
[speaker002:] really huh well I you know it's true hadn't thought about that that is very unconvenient inconvenient even
[speaker001:] I know it I know
[speaker002:] but uh so you do recycle don't you
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I'm kind of I'm kind of bad about it
[speaker001:] the
[speaker002:] but if I if see a if I see a pile of cans or bottles or something
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I'll throw it in there but I don't really I don't ever take anything
[speaker001:] well I mean it's really you ought to because the the the farmer's market recycles absolutely everything
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and since we go there all the time I mean
[speaker002:] probably
[speaker001:] be at all
[speaker002:] but wait I've never seen you before who are you
[speaker001:] oh by the way my name is Julie
[speaker002:] yeah my name's Bill well
[speaker001:] hi
[speaker002:] hi
[speaker001:] I'm from Atlanta
[speaker002:] me too
[speaker001:] neat
[speaker002:] crazy
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] well is there anything else you'd like to share me about your recycling philosophy Julie
[speaker001:] I just think that everybody ought to do it
[speaker002:] do they do like what what about like um what kind of plastic stuff can you recycle do you know
[speaker001:] the only thing I know that you can recycle is milk jugs
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] what about like those grocery bags
[speaker001:] oh yeah they have uh uh what I what I used to uh now that I don't go to the grocery store much it's kind of moot but I used to just save up the ones that I got one time
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then go and hand them to them the next time and use them over and over
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and but also most places I think like Big Star does and I'm not sure if Kroger does or not but
[speaker002:] they'll ask you whether you want bags or paper or plastic
[speaker001:] yeah and they they have like little little boxes that you can put your old bags in
[speaker002:] aha
[speaker001:] can bring them in
[speaker002:] those petroleum products are gonna kill us
[speaker001:] I know it I know it
[speaker002:] it's hostile planet I think Julie
[speaker001:] it it really is a small hostile planet
[speaker002:] the petroleum pretty much I mean those petroleum products I think are the big uh you know
[speaker001:] did you know that
[speaker002:] the great Satan of the recycling
[speaker001:] no really not did you know that like something like fifty percent of the world's landfills is like paper filled with paper
[speaker002:] hm paper just seems so innocuous
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] paper doesn't seem threatening at all you know
[speaker001:] well it is it is though
[speaker002:] it comes from trees how can it be bad
[speaker001:] it is because they
[speaker002:] they treat it with chemicals or something why can't trees break down I don't get it
[speaker001:] well they do treat paper with chemicals like yellow paper you know
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] takes something like twenty times as long to decompose you know you can bury a piece of yellow paper an it will still be there in a couple of weeks
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] yeah it'll be whole
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] you'll be able to read off of it
[speaker002:] I'm gonna switch from those yellow legal pads then
[speaker001:] um hum
[speaker002:] I'm glad you told me that because I use those at work where I work and uh but I can just forget that from now on I'm going to use I'm going to switch to the white ones
[speaker001:] well white paper's bad too they they treat it too
[speaker002:] well what about uh papyrus you know made out of bamboo you know bamboo stuff from the
[speaker001:] I'm sure that's fine I'm sure
[speaker002:] from the banks of the Nile
[speaker001:] maybe we ought to just start carving in stone again
[speaker002:] you think so
[speaker001:] maybe
[speaker002:] tablets
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I think we should just abandon the you know the written word altogether
[speaker001:] you think I don't know well I mean
[speaker002:] no what do you think
[speaker001:] I think we've kind of you know I mean everybody everybody
[speaker002:] kind of radical I know but
[speaker001:] if everybody had a computer we would no longer need paper at all
[speaker002:] that's true if everyone had a two-way wrist watch TV's on their wrist like uh Dick Tracy
[speaker001:] I would love that