[speaker001:] okay I guess we're recording now so
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I think they could uh uh our neighborhood they have a recycling program and you've got to pay for them to pick it up and stuff
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and then they get paid for recycling it so I don't know if that's very fair or not
[speaker002:] well Dallas is talking about starting something like that too it's going to be I I don't know if it's three dollars a week I think it's three dollars a month is what we are going to have to pay
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] uh we do recycle an awful lot of stuff here I I up until a couple of years ago I use to get paid
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] maybe not a lot but I use to be able to find a place that I could get you know a penny a pound for glass and a couple of pennies a pound for plastic and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] something for the newspapers and something for the aluminum cans and nowadays it's like I I can't find one place that's going to take everything
[speaker001:] yeah well that's
[speaker002:] and I am trying to recycle my kitchen my kitchen waste by building a compost pile and that's not easy either I wish I could figure out an easier way
[speaker001:] that's for sure
[speaker002:] of doing that but uh
[speaker001:] uh well we we use to save all our newspapers and plastic and stuff like that and then take it to Wal-Mart because they use to have a recycling bin
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and but they got rid of them because there's a lot of people were throwing their trash and stuff in there so
[speaker002:] and they just got rid of them well Kroger's uh at least in Dallas Kroger's will pay for aluminum and will collect the glass and the plastic
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but they don't collect newspaper and they don't collect tin cans and they don't collect cardboard and I know that the place at Galleria there is one bin in their loading dock area that's for cardboard only and they will recycle the cardboard from there
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so every once and a while after multiple birthdays and I have all these you know cardboard packaging stuff left over then I go and I recycle that over there but it's you know I have to run around town to get my stuff recycled
[speaker001:] yeah that I always say they should have just one central place you know where you can just dump them all
[speaker002:] yeah uh
[speaker001:] or in you know cause really I am not really looking for the the money portion of it you know I just
[speaker002:] well I use to it use to be a good deal us to give instead of giving my kids an allowance I just told them they could go around the neighborhood and collect things to be recycled and then I would drive them over and they get some money and it was a good way to teach them that their work earned them
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] some money and at the same time it was cleaning up the neighborhood and it was getting stuff recycled and
[speaker001:] yeah I've heard
[speaker002:] but know it's just you know I can't do that because they don't earn any money for it and I hate to see that happen but
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know and I would also I'd like to see the state you know they say on all sorts of things you know the they the diaper people advertise that diaper are recyclable and they are working on a program to recycle and well yeah in one small community they're recyclable but there is nothing around that will recycle that or recycle tires or recycle you know uh you know uh they say all these plastics are recyclable but nobody will take anything on beyond a two and so all the bags and all the stuff that's four or six doesn't get recycled
[speaker001:] yeah yeah and uh and you know and if it's recyclable why can't they just throw it in with the rest of the plastic and stuff you know it's just
[speaker002:] well or if it has to be separated by number why doesn't someone take it I mean I can't find it's I can't even find somewhere that will take the stuff
[speaker001:] yeah yeah that's
[speaker002:] yeah and I I think maybe one thing that we could do to encourage it would be to require uh you know government agencies and stuff were required to use only recycled paper for instance
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and to define recycle paper as paper that includes you know material that had actually been used as paper before
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] one of the things that they do is that they call stuff recycled paper like when they when they make envelopes and stuff they had what they call mill ends
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know the little the pieces from that they cut out from making the envelopes
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] well that's what they are recycling cause that never had any ink on it that's what we usually send them to recycle it never had any ink on it they don't have to clean it they put that in with with fresh wood fiber
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and they call that recycled paper
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] you know well then nobody wants to buy my newspaper and nobody wants to to figure out how to you know how to clean up