[speaker001:] I'm an avid recycler um but our city's not doing as much as they ought to what about you all there
[speaker002:] there is a group in town called Nacogdoches Recycles that will meet I believe it's once a month at the park and you can take plastics papers
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] or bottles
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but it's up to you to collect them it's up to you to get them down there and then what they do with them I don't know
[speaker001:] you don't know yeah
[speaker002:] there isn't any you somebody had had talked once before to City Council meeting about maybe having different colored waste cans
[speaker001:] right that they pick up
[speaker002:] uh-huh because they do that in Palestine and nobody wanted to go for that they were gonna charge a little extra on the bill and nobody wanted to do that
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum uh-huh right nobody wanted to do it
[speaker002:] and I save aluminum cans and to take those to the to the closest place is about
[speaker001:] it do you have a place to take them
[speaker002:] it's about thirty minutes away
[speaker001:] wow is that right
[speaker002:] yeah and it and the last time we took some things the price is not really worth it
[speaker001:] worth it yeah not worth the gas huh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah yeah because by the time and you save them and squish them and
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] they're just they were everywhere
[speaker001:] yeah oh I know I know it
[speaker002:] and that's the bad thing about it and newspapers we we started saving newspapers and stuff well they just packed up and I have cats well they had a field day destroyed those
[speaker001:] now what do they do I have cats too but they don't do anything with newspaper
[speaker002:] mine have some kind of paper thing oh yes any any kind of cardboard and paper and they just tear it up
[speaker001:] oh really do with their claws or chew it
[speaker002:] um-hum both
[speaker001:] how fascinating
[speaker002:] I don't know what it is
[speaker001:] oh isn't that interesting I've got three cats but newspapers don't seem to interest them at all
[speaker002:] I don't know what it is and you can't leave the mail don't I don't leave the mail on on the coffee table or it's chewed up
[speaker001:] oh no is that right oh my gosh
[speaker002:] and it was just really one I've got I've got several and one in particular but then she kind of showed the other ones what was going on
[speaker001:] and then they learned how huh
[speaker002:] uh-huh so now it's just a big play play time
[speaker001:] well that's funny well I I we we do have more facilities than that around here so that we they're they are trying in Dallas to do some uh curbside recycling they've got special special you they selected sites and in those sites they they've been doing it and they've had a pretty good success so they're talking about you know doing it more but it isn't in my area so I've got a kitchen full of you know cans and bottles and scrap metal and everything and and then I have to drive it somewhere and there
[speaker002:] yeah I think if they would make it a little more convenient for us everybody would
[speaker001:] then everybody would do it well it's one of those things that makes you feel good you know makes you feel like you're part of of a of a solution to a problem
[speaker002:] that's true
[speaker001:] and and uh there's not that much that makes you feel like you've got any control over anything so
[speaker002:] oh I know and we take the little plastic bags back to the to the grocery store
[speaker001:] back to the grocery so your grocery store does that uh-huh yeah well that's good
[speaker002:] uh-huh but but as far as bottles and things go there isn't any place any any close
[speaker001:] and that's strange because now bottles are the one thing that are totally recyclable they're the easiest and and uh you know I mean I try to keep and reuse and I
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] oh I even carry around uh you know like if I I I travel around the city a lot so that I'm frequently stopping at fast food place and eating in the car or on the way to the next site
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I've gotten to saving the plastic forks and washing them and using them again so I don't keep doing that but boy I mean it's an exhausting way to live
[speaker002:] it really is
[speaker001:] we are very use to throwing things out there's no question about it and
[speaker002:] yeah I I've started saving like you said the plastic knives and forks and things
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I save all the little condiments and things and I
[speaker001:] yeah right exactly exactly lots of little uh soya sauces and ketchups all over the place
[speaker002:] yeah things that I normally threw out because they just give you ton and now I've got a big basket full in the refrigerator
[speaker001:] yeah that's right that's right well now I've gotten to where I say don't put any of that in because it just leaves me with having to dispose of it
[speaker002:] exactly they'll say do you want any no I do not
[speaker001:] no please no
[speaker002:] but I I try and we have a lot of of newspapers and magazines and things like that but
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] that's
[speaker001:] and that's hard to get rid of unless you've got there's one place here in town that will take the slicks and all your junk mail and cereal boxes and everything but you have to drive it downtown and so you know my kitchen I mean certainly I don't like anyone to ever come in because I've just got this stuff everywhere I don't drive it every day so I've got just piles of it
[speaker002:] yeah and I've got a tiny little kitchen so the option of you know some people will maybe have four bins one for your garbage and then I have no room
[speaker001:] right but but you have to move out of your house to have all that yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I have I have room enough for one garbage can and that it is
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I know and it and it really is hard and and uh I then I'll fill up the back of my car and I'm driving around with trash in my car and that well at least maybe it keeps someone from stealing
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know because they'll think there's nothing in this car but trash anyway
[speaker002:] and that's true