we've heard that for your for almost forty seven years now since the first earth day but we've got more that we can do and there's more ways i think about what our goal is and why it is to have you all think differently about recycling angela so this is part of her presentation but this is part of that refused at first thinking about things that we use or overuse or use way too much maybe this is these are just is t recycled refuse items you do not need straws tense all the things that you get with your you make your purchases here's one example i'm back be able there is a under i think it's under all up on one of these shelters meyer was the jews are way up in the tops of kind of tucked away but there it is it has a number on the bottom it can be recycled but i had to look for it so now i'll buy that one specifically recycle them over a hundred different boxes that you can get to recycle them with it's toothbrushes or the supplies or are all they were just goes on and markers and pans and all the things you can recycle  and there's all sorts of great repackaging things that you can take with you i even know i brought my this is something i carry with me when i go to meetings is my little fork and knife  of the other cars there is also on our website is a path as you always there's a guide on the error telling helping people understand how they can get zero waste of their company in organizations or events and really what it does just take a their old ones as we use those a lot and that's a really good rate if you take the metal brick or the metal top out of your mason jar and cut the circle absent heavier paper and hope tons of holes less destruction of traffic on city streets less and less noise less gas consumption and truck emissions and our environment will benefit greatly also we will eliminate any situations where residents feel their revenues or recycling was not picked up once that track has come my everything has been taken at the same time where is it all go what is the transfer station we're about to show you after the truck is fixed up everything in your pick assumes it will go back to the washer transfer station the driver will dump the contents of the truck on the transfer station floor where all the yellow bags will be separate additionally and have the metals or plastics that may have been in the garbage can also be separated that it's once we're sure there are no more recyclables on the floor all the garbage is pushed into a semi trailer that is waiting to take a loan to the land what happens to the recycle now them to the end users who make new products out of recycled materials ultimately we as consumers are the end users we as a city a problem like this trash while recycled so that we continue to create the demand for these and the use who will continue to need our recycle products so their manufacturing processes you can help too by looking for the recycle triangle on products that indicate they've found out is made of recycled materials so to recap starting the yellow bag program you can see why she was talking about one truck coming down your street instead of having six different periods of dr street so it was streamlining the whole process and simplifying it and obviously to encourage more people to recycle and we did go from when that happens we went from about thirty percent were cycling incident when we had stations where you had to drive to and drop your cycles off with about thirty percent participation maybe maybe plus or minus there it went up to about sixty percent almost immediately from there so we're doing pretty well in this doesn't mean that everything gets recycled but i think your numbers are somewhere in the seventy to eighty percent back we've made my daughter get out of all of those plastic bags that you can recycle and what you do you just that's another another way to re