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It takes three yards of garbage to make one ton

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Approximately now of course different garbage weighs different

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amounts

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We know it's growing. We know every time they put up an apartment building our yardage goes up a little more

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We know that each person generates four and a half pounds per day

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In refuse that includes everything not just the stuff they eat throw away

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Stuff that cartage done itch that's used to manufacture it and everything

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You can figure as the population increases, this is a tremendous problem with no answers

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Now that machine over there

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He's picking up cover

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He's stocking it up here for wet days when we can't get up and down hill and then about two o'clock

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He'll start to cover the garbage. In other words, we'll pick one side that's already packed and up the grade

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And then we'll start running the machine right in and he'll start covering he puts the dirt right on top of the garbage

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We open at about four to five in the morning and we closed promptly at 330 nobody gets in at 330 at all

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We get in the normal day about 150 loads and they range from

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Private cars all the way up to these 50-yard transfer trailers

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Truck comes in you see it coming in

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He just backs up and dumps and then we push the load over the hill in about a six or an eight

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Inch layer and then compact it all day

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The job is done right and you cut this open 20 years from now you'll read the newspaper I've done this

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Only thing it shows you that there isn't any decomposition is what I'm driving it

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In other words people think this will disappear. Well, that's foolishness. It's it's never gonna disappear. It'll always be garbage

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Is it business like to think that we can handle all this waste and garbage in a better way than we've done in the past

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So that we won't be using up our resources the way that we've done in the past

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We think so

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You can take recycling paper, for example

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We find ourselves at Edison using a great deal of recycled paper

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And around here we find the question asked more and more is it competitively priced?

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Well, it may not be quite there yet

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But at least it's in the range or at a point at which that we feel we can justify the premium

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To use recycled paper rather than the conventional type and we think other companies are coming to the same kind of conclusion

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Somebody once told me how many acres of trees are needed for just one issue of the New York Sunday Times

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I don't remember the exact number but it's enough

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So the paper is worth plenty to recycle and enough to make the energy our young people are putting into recycling equally worthwhile

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Well, I think that the boys and girls have been our mainstay as far as volunteers are concerned and they definitely show the most enthusiasm

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And many of them helped us even build it

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We were out here with kids doing the actual building of the recycling center

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So I think it's been a real good opportunity for them to learn a lot about how these things work

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They're also learning a lot about the community and how hard it is to get volunteers

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I think a lot of us think that for good projects in communities volunteers are readily available and they're really not and the kids are beginning

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To learn that themselves and putting pressure on their parents to come out and help and it's been a very effective

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Way to get the kids involved and to get the community involved

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The clear goes in the clear and the brown goes in the brown in the future you don't have to take the paper off

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Okay, paper can be left on bottles green green. There's a green but container too. Okay. Now what about something like this?

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No, it's got a seam. It's not a long. All right, if it's just a top it's a bottom. Right? No seams means it's aluminum

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Okay, make sure you have to check on with the glass is make sure there are no metal rings on any of the glass

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Sometimes there'll be a metal ring

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Doing this because I've been worried about

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Right here

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Well, we get approximately

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$20 a ton for the glass and approximately

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$18 a ton for the cans

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And $200 a ton for aluminum, but we haven't reached a ton of aluminum yet

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The bins represent about 40 to 45 dollars in glass and about 20 to 25 dollars in cans

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If our volume if we were really used to the extent that this community is taking home non-returnable containers

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We would be flooded we couldn't possibly handle it and I don't even think the city could really handle the kinds of

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Volume that we're talking about the very very long range

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This this kind of an operation will not possibly deal with the problems that we're having

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We'll have to go to some kind of back to the manufacturers and in some way have them

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Re-evaluate their processes and procedures so that we have containers that are either biodegradable or returnable

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There's two lines of thought in that some people are proponents of returnable bottles other people are the proponents of the non-returnable bottle

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We feel that the non-returnable bottle is a lot safer because it's made for one trip

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We know it only goes one trip the returnable bottle is made for 10 trips and sometimes it can go 20 trips

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our thought on the ecology fact is that the only answer to the solid waste problem is separation and recycling and

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Until we come up with and the municipalities come up with systems which will separate total garbage into various recyclable

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Substances you know the only answer right now is recycling which we're doing a lot of

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In the past year and a half we've recycled over 10 million bottles of course our daily production is about 4 million bottles

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The reason I am still strongly working for it even though it doesn't look like

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It's really gonna solve the problem in the long run it's because I think people become educated to exactly how much

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Garbage there they have in a week or in a month

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Why because we're on a little bit of a

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Ship and when we've used up what's on here. There's no way of getting any more

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We're in what you might describe as a society that's accustomed to throwing things away

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Whether it's paper products or cans or bottles or old cars

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That seem to wind up somehow in the garbage heap

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But bit by bit we're working out good hard-headed

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Businesslike ways and means to bring things back to life in a usable form

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Have three cranes feeding the conveyor and then the conveyor drops them off into the machine

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the machine is

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operated by a 4000 horsepower electric motor and

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We have a 2500 volts coming into the plant

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On a good day the machine is capable of 800 automobile 6 to 800 automobiles

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There's a series of hammers on a rotor they travel at 450 rpm and then there's a set of greats

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animals that are beneath this and

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As the automobile falls the hammers beat it beat the automobile through the greats and it takes about 12 seconds

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Devour the automobile

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And if we can devise more ways to recycle this material to bring back to life materials

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Which are finding themselves in diminishing form?

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Then I think we've helped perform a very valid and important service

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And I think business by and large recognizes this responsibility

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It's a responsibility not only to meet standards and regulations

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It's good business in many cases and it fits in with people's concerns as citizens very definitely

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Person has to get concerned you wonder what the possible solutions to this are I mean?

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Education you just get better schools. That's very easy roads you build better roads, but what are you gonna? Do with garbage?

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It'll take some dollars and a lot of effort

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It'll take some dollars and a lot of effort, but it can pay off even in strict dollars and cents

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And the young people who brought this to the forefront are giving all of us an incentive to pitch in I

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Think we're beyond the stage of talking

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Now it's a matter of placing ourselves on the line and working toward the solution

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Well, I mean it's not that much fun, but it has to be done by somebody