August 19, 2025 • 25 mins
Erin Cofiell Barker and Joe Sinagra are back! Joe updates on Myers Containers’ hiring success and recycling efforts in Colchester, while Erin shares a daycare dirt-throwing tale and poolside summer fun. They dive into Vermont’s construction debris laws, banning sheetrock, cardboard, wood, concrete, and metal from the state’s only landfill for large projects. Learn how
- Myers recycles these into deodorizers, pressboard, and more, plus their dumpster rental options for home cleanouts. In “Trashy or Not,” they debate leaving your car at the gas pump to grab coffee—trashy or acceptable? Tune in for laughs and eco-tips! Like, share, subscribe for more Vermont trash talk and community vibes! #Myers #Podcast
- Myers Container Service Corp. is the area's most reliable in garbage removal and recycling services. We are a locally owned company with 12 years of industry experience. Every week here on the Trash Talking and Giving Back Podcast, we highlight local heroes and organizations that are doing great work in our community.
- Myers recycles these into deodorizers, pressboard, and more, plus their dumpster rental options for home cleanouts. In “Trashy or Not,” they debate leaving your car at the gas pump to grab coffee—trashy or acceptable? Tune in for laughs and eco-tips! Like, share, subscribe for more Vermont trash talk and community vibes! #Myers #Podcast
- Myers Container Service Corp. is the area's most reliable in garbage removal and recycling services. We are a locally owned company with 12 years of industry experience. Every week here on the Trash Talking and Giving Back Podcast, we highlight local heroes and organizations that are doing great work in our community.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey, everyone, Welcome to another episode of the Trash Talking
and Giving Back Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Aaron coolfiel Barker.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is Joe Sinagra, my lovely co host does it
all over at Myers Containers up in Colchester.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Joe, what's been going on, Buddy?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, you know, things here at Myers are going well.
You know, trucks are out and rolling every day, which
is nice. We're having some luck hiring new employees, so
anyone was saying if they know somebody or wants to
come work, we're still hiring. But we are having some
luck bring some new people on, so that's always a positive,
which is great. How about yourself, Aaron, how's your week
(00:51):
been going.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My week's been pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's been very hot, but there's a pool nearby that
I'm able to use, and so that's helpful. Having young
children having you know, we go to school and pick
them up and then we can come home and go
in the pool helps Yesterday I went to pick up
Jack at daycare and three parents approached me in the
parking lot because they watched a kid through dirt in
Jack's face. Oh my goodness, I know, and I was like,
(01:16):
oh my poor mama, heart, and so by the time
I get back there, of course he's like fine and
moved on.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But I was also like dying to know him, like, well,
what did he do?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
How did he like get mad back? Did he just
like clamber up? Like at what age am I supposed
to start worrying about my kid like sticking.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Up for himself?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, I had a list of people who are dead
to me, So you know, you could start a list
a lot of people who have done wrong to my
kids or to me.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You know, if there's a list that they're dead to me.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, that's what's funny about daycare these days, is like
when they can't talk yet, right, if like a kid
gets bit, they just say like a friend bit them.
But now when they can talk, you can be like
who did that? Into Jack's credit, he went, I don't know,
And I was like, Jack through during your face, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm like, are you really trying to defend them or
stick up for them right now?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
But he was fine, nothing that can't be solved without
a little love for mom and a bath. Right when
we got home to get the dirt out.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Of the space, Well there you go, no, but no
ice cream. You got to get him little ice cream.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, yeah, well, I mean he has a popsicle every night.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
He literally as soon as Ellie, the older one, goes
to bed, he knows it's time for him to have
a pop.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So some nights he'll he'll be like watching a show
and where's baby Ellie. She's not in bed yet. Like
the little routines they get.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Used to, right, that's great. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's crazy. What well you had.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Spencer's sorry, your son's would never know. Spencer's birthday last
week a little.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Family day we did, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Finally, after five years, my son moved back to Vermont
after graduating college and like you, escaping Connecticut, he had
enough of the Nutmeg state, so I moved back to Vermont.
So it was nice first birthday we spent with them
in a long time. So it was nice to have that.
My my youngest daughter is a little mortified at her job.
(03:10):
Somebody she had a shoplifter and her, the owner of
her store, posted the video of the woman. You very
clearly see her shoplifting, and so my daughter is mortified.
And I said, oh, because you feel bad somebody you know,
stole while you were working. She goes, no, my hair
didn't look well and I didn't look and so I said, well, okay,
(03:34):
but it's okay.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh that's like adorable.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, yes, the video is going viral and everyone is
sharing it. Just look at the shoplifter and my hair
doesn't look good. That's what she's sorried out there, Like
why aren't you doing anything about seeing this person's shoplift.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I saw someone's shoplift once.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I was at one of the big box stores here
in Wilson, and we all watched this woman and just
go out with her cart, and like the like you know,
hired security officer they had there didn't like do anything either,
Like he's like, no, like a random patron sec should
I go chase after them?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And they're like no, like we can't do anything about it.
We just have to call the police. Like what.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, well, she you know, it's a very small boutique
type store, so it's just her there alone. So she
was always a little nervous about being alone. And and
but yes, nineteen year old girl, problem is, you know,
I don't look good on the surveillance tape.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I love that. I think I know the story you're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think. I saw the video online. I'm had to
go back and watch it because it did not realize
it was your daughter. It's like a great little store.
But I guess right, I'm glad that they were stealing
products and didn't come up to the register and try
to get her.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
To to exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And they posted this online that The funny thing is
the owner took a selfie with the alleged shoplifter in
the past because she liked the outfit or something that
the alleged shoplifter had. So the owner, actually you also
posted at the selfie, so not only the surveillance, but
also the selfie of what the alleged shoplifter.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So that answers a question because I saw this and
then it was the shoplifter in one outfit and then
this photo of them in another outfit, and I was
very confused, and someone right, I read the comments but
to try to figure out what was going on, and
someone said, like, I'm confused, but.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That makes yes.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, so it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So that that's been the hotbed issue in the Sonaga
household this last few days.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You got to make sure she looks good when she
heads out the door. Just in case someone's going to
come in and shoplift.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Again, exactly exactly, I like it, So I like it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
All right, shall we shall we talk some kind of
trash here?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
We should? We should absolutely, all right, let's.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Talk about construction debris.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Right. We always see things getting built and you kind
of I feel like in my brain, right, it's almost
just like, oh, I see all the pieces, and then
you see a house, and and like you assume everything
that came in went into the house.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But that's not how it works. There's a lot of
debris that comes into it and that's got to go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, you know, as we've talked about before, often, you know,
Vermont only has one landfill, so you know, even when
you bring stuff here to our operation in Colchester or
one of the transfer stations around the state, everything ultimately
ends up in Coventry. And with one landfill, you only
have so much space, and stuff takes time to break down.
So about five years ago, the state of Vermont banned
(06:30):
five construction debris items from the landfill. So it's now
against the law to dispose of in the landfill sheet rock, cardboard,
would concrete, and metal, you know, sort of the five
big things that come out of a construction project. Now,
the caveat on all of this is it has to
be more than twenty cubic yards and it has to
(06:52):
be within twenty miles of a recycling facility for it
to be banned.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So if you're doing.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Your bathroom remodel, you know, and you're pulling out a
little sheet rock, that can still go in the trash.
But what the state was trying to eliminate is large
volumes of you know, the big neighborhood being built, you
know by your house in Wilston, all that waste that
is produced. They don't want that going to the landfill.
They would like that to be repurposed. So we Myers
(07:22):
Container opened a construction recycling facility here in Colchester, so
those items come back here to our facility to be
turned into other products.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And what's one of the interesting things is you take
sheet rock, for example, when sheet rock gets wet, it
puts off a terrible odor that sounds a sulfur smell
or rotten egg smell. So you know, that's a lot
of that odor that you smell when you go to
a landfill or transfer station. That rotten egg smell well
that's actually oxidized sheet rock. So sheet rocks are one
(07:58):
of the big culprits that we're trying to pull out.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So when you do like a big project like that
and then you guys take all of this to your
facility in Colchester, but then like then.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
What do you do with it?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
R what does sheet rock turn into or what does
it all get recycled into being?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So I brought cool little prop here. Oh wow, this
was let me go the other way. This was sheet
rock not too long ago.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So this is.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
A green deodorizer.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
So this you can use in things like when something
is spilled on the ground and you're trying you clean
it up, but you still have that leftover odor, so
you can turn into you know, otorizer that way. We
also use a quickie dry so when you spill oil
or things of that sort, So sheet rock comes, the
(08:50):
paper on the sheet rock is pulled off of it,
the paper is turned into bedding for animals, so for
pigs and chickens and things of that sort. And then
the center, the actual sheet rock itself is crushed down,
mixed and turned into in this case deodorizer. So that's
the big part of it all. Wood is brought in,
(09:11):
so any both clean wood in what's considered dirty wood.
So dirty wood is like plywood and that type of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Painted wood wood comes in.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
We chip it down into much smaller pieces and then
it's pressed into press board and then some of it's
turned into like that cheap furnisure you might buy from
Walmart or Target or something like that, the press board.
So the wood is turned into press board, which is nice. Obviously,
metal is melted down and turned back in the metal metal.
(09:41):
That's been happening for a long time. Same thing with cardboard.
Cardboard is you know, just turned melt you know, broken down,
turned back into it. And then we've talked about shingles
in the past where shingles is is processed and turned
into either asphalt or.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Chips for byke pass and golf carts and things of
that sort.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So like you guys, literally like how much of that
process is done right there in Colchester.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
So we do it all the way up, We process
it all, we just don't turn into the final product.
So what is shipped down here, the sheet rock is processed,
the meadow is processed. What we don't do is we
don't produce that final product, so that final in the
case of quickly dry or those things, that's brought to
a third party who then turns it into it. So
(10:31):
the same thing the shingles, we process all the way
through to the mix. So when if it's turning into asphalt,
we bring the chipped process shingles to you know, a
asphalt plant that then ultimately turns it into to the asphalt.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And so I know you'd mentioned that, Really the law
is only sorry, not the law.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It is the law. I did no air quotes.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The law is that the larger quantities can't go to
the land and have to go to recycling center. However,
as we know a lot of remonitors I think would
still love to recycle. There's just if they knew it's
something that they shouldn't be bringing where they currently are.
So people could just bring it to myers and then
you guys take it in process it there.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
We sure do.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So we get a lot of people every day coming in,
you know, weekend warriors, people who are doing the bathroom
or doing the basement or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
They come in because you.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Know, a you know, you're probably like me, Aaron, you know,
my trash totes are full every week. I don't really
have a lot of extra space every week, so most
people are that way too, So when they're doing that project,
they're not throwing the sheet rock, they're not throwing the
wood scraps in their trash tote because they don't have
the space. So a lot of people are looking for
an avenue to get rid of it. So we get
(11:43):
a lot of people showing up in their pickup trucks
all the way down.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
We had a we had.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
A tesla on the scales this week with the trunk
was full of of you know, wood scraps and stuff.
So we get the whole the whole range of people
all the way to you know, the bigger contracts, the roofers.
We have this time of the year, a lot of
people are having their roofs done, so we have a
lot of shingles that are coming through. And then you know,
as the weather change is we get into more the
(12:09):
interior stuff, so the sheet rock in the plywood and
two by fours and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It feels like a good time to do a plug
for like the dumpster rollouts and things like that that
you do for people who may be doing a home remodel.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
How does that work.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, So we have five different sizes, so they're all
done by yardage. We're dumb Americans, so we're not, you know,
quite the rest of the world when it comes to
our yardage or our mathematics, metrics, our metrics. But you know,
we have as small as four yards, which are like
those dumpsters you might see behind a restaurant and stuff.
(12:44):
So four yard dumpster is about four feet by four
feet by four feet. It's really made for small bathroom jobs,
cleaning out your garage, I think it's that sort. And
then they got six yards, fifteen, twenty and thirty yards.
Thirty yards are those great big what we call rolloffs
twenty seven feet long, six feet wide eight feet tall
(13:04):
or eight feet wide six feet tall. Those are for
larger construction jobs. But you know, homeowners cleaning stuff out.
We get a lot of people who are strom cleaning
or fall cleaning. You know, they're purchasing a home stuff
of that sort. So we're pride ourselves on our quick
turnaround at Myers. So we're twenty four hours turnaround. So
(13:26):
you call it today. You can have a container tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
At your house.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Even with the weekend, so.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Monday through Friday we go over. So if you call
on Thursday, we get it Friday. But the nice thing
is we can also turn those over pretty quickly, so
like most people, you think, oh, I can only fill
one of those, and then you start, you know, pulling
more out, pulling more out, pulling more out, so we
can dump what we call dump and return.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So it's great, it's great.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You know, it's more and more people are going that
route because they're trying to either bear a house to
sell or you know and passed away, so they're cleaning
out different parents' house or whatever. So it's an important
function that we're all providing here.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
How do you are those like a set like a
flat beer or how does the payment work for those?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, so what we do we do a flat rate,
so depending on where where you're going, because of course
we're coming out of Colchester, so Colchester Wilson's going to
be cheaper than Montpelier or Sheffield or you know, Rutland.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
But yeah, you get a flat rate which includes.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
The delivery, the removal and then the first ton of
waste because most people on a home clean out might
be a ton of stuff. And then if you're over
a ton it's okay, you just pay a little bit
more for that, so you have kind of some cost
certainty going into it, so you know, you know, I'm
going to be around this amount of money, you know,
eight hundred.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
And nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
But you know, we allow people keeping for a week
or ten days, so you can get two weekends to
clean stuff out. And we find that giving people a
timeframe actually helps them because it forces them to do
it because they know the container's going to be removed
next Monday, so you can't.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Again, they don't just end up with a dumpster just
in their driveway forever and ever.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Right, people have good intentions, but then they decide they
got to go to a concert or something, and they don't,
you know, they don't end.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Up cleaning it out.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I feel like I have like a funny memory when
I was younger, I had like the standard grandfather who
always talked about how the movies were a nickel and
all of that, and I feel like there was a
dumpster one time that he had, but they'd like thrown
a rug in it or something, and then it rain
and so then it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Got really heavy and he got charged a lot and
was like not happy.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
About it, yeah, and that it is an issue especially
in all years, but in the winter too because you know,
it snows and then you know, but we've had customers
who get inside and shovel the snow out.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Or you know, try to try to open this. Now.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Of course they're not water tight, so when it does rain,
it does wake out and everything. But yes, you do
have some you know, I.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Mean, it happens, that's hey, make sure you shut the lid.
Make sure you shut the lid, and then you won't
have that problem.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And also remember you know that a heavier container means
less gas mile wage for the truck moving it. So
it's not just we're making more money, it's costing us
more money to move.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
That container too.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
And in Vermont you have the laws about how heavy
a container can be. So heavier container, you know, we
run the risk of and a homeowner, of course isn't
sitting there calculating every pound going in it, so our
drivers have to kind of estimate when they're picking it up.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You know, it's this can just be too heavy or
not to move.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
That's interesting because I never thought of that concept, right, Like,
as just.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A normal homeowner, you would just be like, oh, it's
it's like when you go to the airport and you're like, oh,
my bag's over fifty pounds and they're going to.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Charge me more, Like why just because it's heavy.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But it's like, no, it's the trickle down effect, Like
you're if everyone's bag was extra heavy, well, now going
to make the plane need more fuel to be more efficient.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's not just that you're like breaking somebody's back along
the way because you packed too much stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Right exactly exactly so, And that's what Frankly, it's stuff
I didn't understand until I came to work here.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I didn't understand all the nuances.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I didn't understand, like, you know, you can't throw like
we see a lot of times this year people throwing
away old propane tanks from the gas grow you know,
they get a new grill. And before I worked here,
I never understood, well, what's the big deal? You know,
throw it away, it's garbage. But then you realize what
happens when stuff goes in the back of the trash
truck and it's crushed up. Well, when you're crushed up
(17:39):
an old pro paining tank that might not be completely empty,
not very safe.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Although when you get those party City ones or now
they're just that like Target, you are supposed to throw
those ones in the trash and that just doesn't feel
right to me.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, because helium isn't as bad as propane has got it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I think it's just that it's like this sturdy container
that you feel like, no, like it should be.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Brought back to someone to refill. That could be a
business for us. Joh, well, just where do you get
helium from? Which get a big old tank and then
refill the little tanks.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Well, helium's in very high demand right now. It's very
hard to find helium.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Have you watched the show Stick on Apple TV?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I had not.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh you should. It's a good one. It's it's Owen Wilson.
There's golf, but there's a there's a bit about the
the mom wants to like invest in helium.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So we're currently.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Watching Friends and Neighbors not to side.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Watch it.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yep, Yeah, it's it's a little you know, I didn't
understand going into it. I think we're watching as my
wife likes John hamm uh but uh, I was turning
to her and I said, yeah, I give me a
little like advanced notice.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I didn't realize how racy.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It is not that I'm approved by any stretch, but
it definitely helped me off guard a little bit. I'm
only we're only on third or fourth season.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Okay, it's yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That was.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I like that one.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And I'm not a big like I don't like scary
like guns like actiony stuff, but like.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
You know, you know, I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
We finished Friends and Neighbors. That's not the one that
I'm talking about, Racy. The one where and I can't
think of the name. Now they they move. He's an
architect and he moves to Texas, and the other character
is going to run for governor of Texas, and they're
all the Shenanigans that go around it. Yeah, so it's
(19:28):
basically the all the women are swingers, uh, but with
each with each other. So they're all married, but all
the women are swinging with.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
The other women.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Wow, so your wife was just looking out for you.
But this is a family podcast, so we're gonna move
on now.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, it's it's but it's Apple TV.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
That means it's very game. Okay, I think it's time.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Well anything else on construction debris As I stircles back
to the to the topic of today's podcast, Okay, I
just saw our producer type something and I thought he
was gonna come and hot with the name.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Of the show, but he just wrote wow instead. You'll
have to give him the name of it later.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yes, all right, time for trashy or not? What do
we have for us this week?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
So trashy or not?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
So with me recently moving my helping my son move
back to Vermont, I.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Saw this, uh and maybe I did it also. Uh.
So you go to a gas.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Station to fill up your car and you decide that
you need I drink a coffee, a snack or whatever
it may be, finish filling up your car, but then
leaving your car in the gas lane and going into
the store to purchase whatever you're purchasing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I think that you just need to use basic like awareness.
But most like I'm definitely guilty of doing that. Obviously,
if there's like a line of cars and it seems
like the gas station is super busy, then you maybe shouldn't.
But especially if there's like other open pumps and you
know what you're getting. It just feels like a lot
more work to have to move the car.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
But it's one of those things.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I understand what you're saying that, oh, I'm only running
in for quick and nobody's here but quick for you
and quick for me. And then you know, you go
in and you know it happened to me in Hartford
wanting to get a coffee. The line of Duncan was
a little long. I'm like, oh, the heck with it.
I come out.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I got, you know, and of.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Course I think I'm still in Williston, so you know,
I shoot the person a dirty look and I'm in
West you know, I mean East Hartford. And my son
quickly said, Dad, you're in East Hartford. You're not in Williston,
so let's move.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It was when you started with I'm in Hartford, Connecticut,
not Vermont. I was like, oh me, yeah, no there,
I think you probably should have locked the car if
you're going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You're lucky it wasn't stolen.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, And I of course preface it with I was
in East Harford, not West Harford. As those from the area. No,
the river divides the city and West Hartford's a little
bit easier to navigate than East Harford.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well, and I grew up in Glastonbury, which is right
in between the two of them.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I was on the East Hartford side though, is what
is what I always say.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
My dad was an electrician, right, we didn't have the
Glastonbury the Glastonbury money. But so my final answer is
not trashy, Only trashy if it's a very busy gas
station and it's very clear that you should not leave
your car there. But is it worse Like you know
how some pumps you can like set it to like
just go. Could you just set it to go and
(22:45):
then go in and do what you're supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Or are you really supposed to stay by your car?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I think that's against the law leaving the pump.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I believe there's great big signs on the pump that
says do not leave your car.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I thought those great big signs just like a suggestion,
not like wool.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That's like when they say, like not to smoke at
a gas station and then I see people doing that.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Live in the Gray area, but even I not that
I'm a smoker, but even I want to smoke at
a gas pump.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Fair Okay, I like it.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I do have to be honest.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I always ask my family these trash you are not
to make sure I'm not too far out there. And
my daughter reminded me that we once went to get
a coffee at a Duncan and there was no available
parking spot, so I parked in front of a pump.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I wasn't getting gas.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I literally parked in front of pump too, going and
get coffee.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
With no intentions of even getting gas, like you're doing it.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
No, just like, no, this is no good enough spot
for me.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I mean, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta
do to get to that coffee. Well. Absolutely, if you're smart, though,
you order your car head while you're standing at the pump,
so then they make it and then you just go
in and grab it and then you are not leaving
your car for that long exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I'm with you there, I'm with you there.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I love it. Anything else for week this week.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
No, no, I think we hit a lot of the topics,
and you know, we had the common theme of making
sure our monitors are doing the right thing by recycling
and comboasting and disposing of their construction breath the correct way,
and we're to help along the way.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, and I love hearing some of the things that
gets turned into I know we've talked about like shingles
became the cart path at Rocky Ridge, Like yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Kind of a wild thing, you know, for people to see.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The full circle of that, absolutely all right, make sure
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Speaker 2 (24:57):
That is the goal every week.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And if we don't have someone and then we talk
about it ourselves, giving back to our great state and
not filling the landfill because when it's full, we got problems.
And I learned last week that will happen in our lifetime.
We'll see you all next week.
Hey, everyone, Welcome to another episode of the Trash Talking
and Giving Back Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Aaron coolfiel Barker.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is Joe Sinagra, my lovely co host does it
all over at Myers Containers up in Colchester.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Joe, what's been going on, Buddy?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, you know, things here at Myers are going well.
You know, trucks are out and rolling every day, which
is nice. We're having some luck hiring new employees, so
anyone was saying if they know somebody or wants to
come work, we're still hiring. But we are having some
luck bring some new people on, so that's always a positive,
which is great. How about yourself, Aaron, how's your week
(00:51):
been going.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My week's been pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's been very hot, but there's a pool nearby that
I'm able to use, and so that's helpful. Having young
children having you know, we go to school and pick
them up and then we can come home and go
in the pool helps Yesterday I went to pick up
Jack at daycare and three parents approached me in the
parking lot because they watched a kid through dirt in
Jack's face. Oh my goodness, I know, and I was like,
(01:16):
oh my poor mama, heart, and so by the time
I get back there, of course he's like fine and
moved on.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But I was also like dying to know him, like, well,
what did he do?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
How did he like get mad back? Did he just
like clamber up? Like at what age am I supposed
to start worrying about my kid like sticking.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Up for himself?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, I had a list of people who are dead
to me, So you know, you could start a list
a lot of people who have done wrong to my
kids or to me.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You know, if there's a list that they're dead to me.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, that's what's funny about daycare these days, is like
when they can't talk yet, right, if like a kid
gets bit, they just say like a friend bit them.
But now when they can talk, you can be like
who did that? Into Jack's credit, he went, I don't know,
And I was like, Jack through during your face, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm like, are you really trying to defend them or
stick up for them right now?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
But he was fine, nothing that can't be solved without
a little love for mom and a bath. Right when
we got home to get the dirt out.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Of the space, Well there you go, no, but no
ice cream. You got to get him little ice cream.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, yeah, well, I mean he has a popsicle every night.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
He literally as soon as Ellie, the older one, goes
to bed, he knows it's time for him to have
a pop.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So some nights he'll he'll be like watching a show
and where's baby Ellie. She's not in bed yet. Like
the little routines they get.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Used to, right, that's great. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's crazy. What well you had.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Spencer's sorry, your son's would never know. Spencer's birthday last
week a little.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Family day we did, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Finally, after five years, my son moved back to Vermont
after graduating college and like you, escaping Connecticut, he had
enough of the Nutmeg state, so I moved back to Vermont.
So it was nice first birthday we spent with them
in a long time. So it was nice to have that.
My my youngest daughter is a little mortified at her job.
(03:10):
Somebody she had a shoplifter and her, the owner of
her store, posted the video of the woman. You very
clearly see her shoplifting, and so my daughter is mortified.
And I said, oh, because you feel bad somebody you know,
stole while you were working. She goes, no, my hair
didn't look well and I didn't look and so I said, well, okay,
(03:34):
but it's okay.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh that's like adorable.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, yes, the video is going viral and everyone is
sharing it. Just look at the shoplifter and my hair
doesn't look good. That's what she's sorried out there, Like
why aren't you doing anything about seeing this person's shoplift.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I saw someone's shoplift once.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I was at one of the big box stores here
in Wilson, and we all watched this woman and just
go out with her cart, and like the like you know,
hired security officer they had there didn't like do anything either,
Like he's like, no, like a random patron sec should
I go chase after them?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And they're like no, like we can't do anything about it.
We just have to call the police. Like what.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, well, she you know, it's a very small boutique
type store, so it's just her there alone. So she
was always a little nervous about being alone. And and
but yes, nineteen year old girl, problem is, you know,
I don't look good on the surveillance tape.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I love that. I think I know the story you're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think. I saw the video online. I'm had to
go back and watch it because it did not realize
it was your daughter. It's like a great little store.
But I guess right, I'm glad that they were stealing
products and didn't come up to the register and try
to get her.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
To to exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And they posted this online that The funny thing is
the owner took a selfie with the alleged shoplifter in
the past because she liked the outfit or something that
the alleged shoplifter had. So the owner, actually you also
posted at the selfie, so not only the surveillance, but
also the selfie of what the alleged shoplifter.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So that answers a question because I saw this and
then it was the shoplifter in one outfit and then
this photo of them in another outfit, and I was
very confused, and someone right, I read the comments but
to try to figure out what was going on, and
someone said, like, I'm confused, but.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That makes yes.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, so it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So that that's been the hotbed issue in the Sonaga
household this last few days.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You got to make sure she looks good when she
heads out the door. Just in case someone's going to
come in and shoplift.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Again, exactly exactly, I like it, So I like it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
All right, shall we shall we talk some kind of
trash here?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
We should? We should absolutely, all right, let's.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Talk about construction debris.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Right. We always see things getting built and you kind
of I feel like in my brain, right, it's almost
just like, oh, I see all the pieces, and then
you see a house, and and like you assume everything
that came in went into the house.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But that's not how it works. There's a lot of
debris that comes into it and that's got to go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, you know, as we've talked about before, often, you know,
Vermont only has one landfill, so you know, even when
you bring stuff here to our operation in Colchester or
one of the transfer stations around the state, everything ultimately
ends up in Coventry. And with one landfill, you only
have so much space, and stuff takes time to break down.
So about five years ago, the state of Vermont banned
(06:30):
five construction debris items from the landfill. So it's now
against the law to dispose of in the landfill sheet rock, cardboard,
would concrete, and metal, you know, sort of the five
big things that come out of a construction project. Now,
the caveat on all of this is it has to
be more than twenty cubic yards and it has to
(06:52):
be within twenty miles of a recycling facility for it
to be banned.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So if you're doing.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Your bathroom remodel, you know, and you're pulling out a
little sheet rock, that can still go in the trash.
But what the state was trying to eliminate is large
volumes of you know, the big neighborhood being built, you
know by your house in Wilston, all that waste that
is produced. They don't want that going to the landfill.
They would like that to be repurposed. So we Myers
(07:22):
Container opened a construction recycling facility here in Colchester, so
those items come back here to our facility to be
turned into other products.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And what's one of the interesting things is you take
sheet rock, for example, when sheet rock gets wet, it
puts off a terrible odor that sounds a sulfur smell
or rotten egg smell. So you know, that's a lot
of that odor that you smell when you go to
a landfill or transfer station. That rotten egg smell well
that's actually oxidized sheet rock. So sheet rocks are one
(07:58):
of the big culprits that we're trying to pull out.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So when you do like a big project like that
and then you guys take all of this to your
facility in Colchester, but then like then.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
What do you do with it?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
R what does sheet rock turn into or what does
it all get recycled into being?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So I brought cool little prop here. Oh wow, this
was let me go the other way. This was sheet
rock not too long ago.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So this is.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
A green deodorizer.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
So this you can use in things like when something
is spilled on the ground and you're trying you clean
it up, but you still have that leftover odor, so
you can turn into you know, otorizer that way. We
also use a quickie dry so when you spill oil
or things of that sort, So sheet rock comes, the
(08:50):
paper on the sheet rock is pulled off of it,
the paper is turned into bedding for animals, so for
pigs and chickens and things of that sort. And then
the center, the actual sheet rock itself is crushed down,
mixed and turned into in this case deodorizer. So that's
the big part of it all. Wood is brought in,
(09:11):
so any both clean wood in what's considered dirty wood.
So dirty wood is like plywood and that type of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Painted wood wood comes in.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
We chip it down into much smaller pieces and then
it's pressed into press board and then some of it's
turned into like that cheap furnisure you might buy from
Walmart or Target or something like that, the press board.
So the wood is turned into press board, which is nice. Obviously,
metal is melted down and turned back in the metal metal.
(09:41):
That's been happening for a long time. Same thing with cardboard.
Cardboard is you know, just turned melt you know, broken down,
turned back into it. And then we've talked about shingles
in the past where shingles is is processed and turned
into either asphalt or.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Chips for byke pass and golf carts and things of
that sort.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So like you guys, literally like how much of that
process is done right there in Colchester.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
So we do it all the way up, We process
it all, we just don't turn into the final product.
So what is shipped down here, the sheet rock is processed,
the meadow is processed. What we don't do is we
don't produce that final product, so that final in the
case of quickly dry or those things, that's brought to
a third party who then turns it into it. So
(10:31):
the same thing the shingles, we process all the way
through to the mix. So when if it's turning into asphalt,
we bring the chipped process shingles to you know, a
asphalt plant that then ultimately turns it into to the asphalt.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And so I know you'd mentioned that, Really the law
is only sorry, not the law.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It is the law. I did no air quotes.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The law is that the larger quantities can't go to
the land and have to go to recycling center. However,
as we know a lot of remonitors I think would
still love to recycle. There's just if they knew it's
something that they shouldn't be bringing where they currently are.
So people could just bring it to myers and then
you guys take it in process it there.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
We sure do.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So we get a lot of people every day coming in,
you know, weekend warriors, people who are doing the bathroom
or doing the basement or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
They come in because you.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Know, a you know, you're probably like me, Aaron, you know,
my trash totes are full every week. I don't really
have a lot of extra space every week, so most
people are that way too, So when they're doing that project,
they're not throwing the sheet rock, they're not throwing the
wood scraps in their trash tote because they don't have
the space. So a lot of people are looking for
an avenue to get rid of it. So we get
(11:43):
a lot of people showing up in their pickup trucks
all the way down.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
We had a we had.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
A tesla on the scales this week with the trunk
was full of of you know, wood scraps and stuff.
So we get the whole the whole range of people
all the way to you know, the bigger contracts, the roofers.
We have this time of the year, a lot of
people are having their roofs done, so we have a
lot of shingles that are coming through. And then you know,
as the weather change is we get into more the
(12:09):
interior stuff, so the sheet rock in the plywood and
two by fours and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It feels like a good time to do a plug
for like the dumpster rollouts and things like that that
you do for people who may be doing a home remodel.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
How does that work.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, So we have five different sizes, so they're all
done by yardage. We're dumb Americans, so we're not, you know,
quite the rest of the world when it comes to
our yardage or our mathematics, metrics, our metrics. But you know,
we have as small as four yards, which are like
those dumpsters you might see behind a restaurant and stuff.
(12:44):
So four yard dumpster is about four feet by four
feet by four feet. It's really made for small bathroom jobs,
cleaning out your garage, I think it's that sort. And
then they got six yards, fifteen, twenty and thirty yards.
Thirty yards are those great big what we call rolloffs
twenty seven feet long, six feet wide eight feet tall
(13:04):
or eight feet wide six feet tall. Those are for
larger construction jobs. But you know, homeowners cleaning stuff out.
We get a lot of people who are strom cleaning
or fall cleaning. You know, they're purchasing a home stuff
of that sort. So we're pride ourselves on our quick
turnaround at Myers. So we're twenty four hours turnaround. So
(13:26):
you call it today. You can have a container tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
At your house.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Even with the weekend, so.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Monday through Friday we go over. So if you call
on Thursday, we get it Friday. But the nice thing
is we can also turn those over pretty quickly, so
like most people, you think, oh, I can only fill
one of those, and then you start, you know, pulling
more out, pulling more out, pulling more out, so we
can dump what we call dump and return.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So it's great, it's great.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You know, it's more and more people are going that
route because they're trying to either bear a house to
sell or you know and passed away, so they're cleaning
out different parents' house or whatever. So it's an important
function that we're all providing here.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
How do you are those like a set like a
flat beer or how does the payment work for those?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, so what we do we do a flat rate,
so depending on where where you're going, because of course
we're coming out of Colchester, so Colchester Wilson's going to
be cheaper than Montpelier or Sheffield or you know, Rutland.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
But yeah, you get a flat rate which includes.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
The delivery, the removal and then the first ton of
waste because most people on a home clean out might
be a ton of stuff. And then if you're over
a ton it's okay, you just pay a little bit
more for that, so you have kind of some cost
certainty going into it, so you know, you know, I'm
going to be around this amount of money, you know,
eight hundred.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
And nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
But you know, we allow people keeping for a week
or ten days, so you can get two weekends to
clean stuff out. And we find that giving people a
timeframe actually helps them because it forces them to do
it because they know the container's going to be removed
next Monday, so you can't.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Again, they don't just end up with a dumpster just
in their driveway forever and ever.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Right, people have good intentions, but then they decide they
got to go to a concert or something, and they don't,
you know, they don't end.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Up cleaning it out.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I feel like I have like a funny memory when
I was younger, I had like the standard grandfather who
always talked about how the movies were a nickel and
all of that, and I feel like there was a
dumpster one time that he had, but they'd like thrown
a rug in it or something, and then it rain
and so then it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Got really heavy and he got charged a lot and
was like not happy.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
About it, yeah, and that it is an issue especially
in all years, but in the winter too because you know,
it snows and then you know, but we've had customers
who get inside and shovel the snow out.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Or you know, try to try to open this. Now.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Of course they're not water tight, so when it does rain,
it does wake out and everything. But yes, you do
have some you know, I.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Mean, it happens, that's hey, make sure you shut the lid.
Make sure you shut the lid, and then you won't
have that problem.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And also remember you know that a heavier container means
less gas mile wage for the truck moving it. So
it's not just we're making more money, it's costing us
more money to move.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
That container too.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
And in Vermont you have the laws about how heavy
a container can be. So heavier container, you know, we
run the risk of and a homeowner, of course isn't
sitting there calculating every pound going in it, so our
drivers have to kind of estimate when they're picking it up.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You know, it's this can just be too heavy or
not to move.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
That's interesting because I never thought of that concept, right, Like,
as just.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A normal homeowner, you would just be like, oh, it's
it's like when you go to the airport and you're like, oh,
my bag's over fifty pounds and they're going to.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Charge me more, Like why just because it's heavy.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But it's like, no, it's the trickle down effect, Like
you're if everyone's bag was extra heavy, well, now going
to make the plane need more fuel to be more efficient.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's not just that you're like breaking somebody's back along
the way because you packed too much stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Right exactly exactly so, And that's what Frankly, it's stuff
I didn't understand until I came to work here.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I didn't understand all the nuances.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I didn't understand, like, you know, you can't throw like
we see a lot of times this year people throwing
away old propane tanks from the gas grow you know,
they get a new grill. And before I worked here,
I never understood, well, what's the big deal? You know,
throw it away, it's garbage. But then you realize what
happens when stuff goes in the back of the trash
truck and it's crushed up. Well, when you're crushed up
(17:39):
an old pro paining tank that might not be completely empty,
not very safe.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Although when you get those party City ones or now
they're just that like Target, you are supposed to throw
those ones in the trash and that just doesn't feel
right to me.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, because helium isn't as bad as propane has got it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I think it's just that it's like this sturdy container
that you feel like, no, like it should be.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Brought back to someone to refill. That could be a
business for us. Joh, well, just where do you get
helium from? Which get a big old tank and then
refill the little tanks.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Well, helium's in very high demand right now. It's very
hard to find helium.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Have you watched the show Stick on Apple TV?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I had not.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh you should. It's a good one. It's it's Owen Wilson.
There's golf, but there's a there's a bit about the
the mom wants to like invest in helium.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So we're currently.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Watching Friends and Neighbors not to side.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Watch it.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yep, Yeah, it's it's a little you know, I didn't
understand going into it. I think we're watching as my
wife likes John hamm uh but uh, I was turning
to her and I said, yeah, I give me a
little like advanced notice.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I didn't realize how racy.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It is not that I'm approved by any stretch, but
it definitely helped me off guard a little bit. I'm
only we're only on third or fourth season.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Okay, it's yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That was.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I like that one.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And I'm not a big like I don't like scary
like guns like actiony stuff, but like.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
You know, you know, I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
We finished Friends and Neighbors. That's not the one that
I'm talking about, Racy. The one where and I can't
think of the name. Now they they move. He's an
architect and he moves to Texas, and the other character
is going to run for governor of Texas, and they're
all the Shenanigans that go around it. Yeah, so it's
(19:28):
basically the all the women are swingers, uh, but with
each with each other. So they're all married, but all
the women are swinging with.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
The other women.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Wow, so your wife was just looking out for you.
But this is a family podcast, so we're gonna move
on now.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, it's it's but it's Apple TV.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
That means it's very game. Okay, I think it's time.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Well anything else on construction debris As I stircles back
to the to the topic of today's podcast, Okay, I
just saw our producer type something and I thought he
was gonna come and hot with the name.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Of the show, but he just wrote wow instead. You'll
have to give him the name of it later.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yes, all right, time for trashy or not? What do
we have for us this week?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
So trashy or not?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
So with me recently moving my helping my son move
back to Vermont, I.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Saw this, uh and maybe I did it also. Uh.
So you go to a gas.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Station to fill up your car and you decide that
you need I drink a coffee, a snack or whatever
it may be, finish filling up your car, but then
leaving your car in the gas lane and going into
the store to purchase whatever you're purchasing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I think that you just need to use basic like awareness.
But most like I'm definitely guilty of doing that. Obviously,
if there's like a line of cars and it seems
like the gas station is super busy, then you maybe shouldn't.
But especially if there's like other open pumps and you
know what you're getting. It just feels like a lot
more work to have to move the car.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
But it's one of those things.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I understand what you're saying that, oh, I'm only running
in for quick and nobody's here but quick for you
and quick for me. And then you know, you go
in and you know it happened to me in Hartford
wanting to get a coffee. The line of Duncan was
a little long. I'm like, oh, the heck with it.
I come out.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I got, you know, and of.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Course I think I'm still in Williston, so you know,
I shoot the person a dirty look and I'm in
West you know, I mean East Hartford. And my son
quickly said, Dad, you're in East Hartford. You're not in Williston,
so let's move.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It was when you started with I'm in Hartford, Connecticut,
not Vermont. I was like, oh me, yeah, no there,
I think you probably should have locked the car if
you're going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You're lucky it wasn't stolen.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, And I of course preface it with I was
in East Harford, not West Harford. As those from the area. No,
the river divides the city and West Hartford's a little
bit easier to navigate than East Harford.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well, and I grew up in Glastonbury, which is right
in between the two of them.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I was on the East Hartford side though, is what
is what I always say.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
My dad was an electrician, right, we didn't have the
Glastonbury the Glastonbury money. But so my final answer is
not trashy, Only trashy if it's a very busy gas
station and it's very clear that you should not leave
your car there. But is it worse Like you know
how some pumps you can like set it to like
just go. Could you just set it to go and
(22:45):
then go in and do what you're supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Or are you really supposed to stay by your car?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I think that's against the law leaving the pump.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I believe there's great big signs on the pump that
says do not leave your car.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I thought those great big signs just like a suggestion,
not like wool.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That's like when they say, like not to smoke at
a gas station and then I see people doing that.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Live in the Gray area, but even I not that
I'm a smoker, but even I want to smoke at
a gas pump.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Fair Okay, I like it.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I do have to be honest.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I always ask my family these trash you are not
to make sure I'm not too far out there. And
my daughter reminded me that we once went to get
a coffee at a Duncan and there was no available
parking spot, so I parked in front of a pump.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I wasn't getting gas.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I literally parked in front of pump too, going and
get coffee.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
With no intentions of even getting gas, like you're doing it.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
No, just like, no, this is no good enough spot
for me.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I mean, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta
do to get to that coffee. Well. Absolutely, if you're smart, though,
you order your car head while you're standing at the pump,
so then they make it and then you just go
in and grab it and then you are not leaving
your car for that long exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I'm with you there, I'm with you there.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I love it. Anything else for week this week.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
No, no, I think we hit a lot of the topics,
and you know, we had the common theme of making
sure our monitors are doing the right thing by recycling
and comboasting and disposing of their construction breath the correct way,
and we're to help along the way.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, and I love hearing some of the things that
gets turned into I know we've talked about like shingles
became the cart path at Rocky Ridge, Like yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Kind of a wild thing, you know, for people to see.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The full circle of that, absolutely all right, make sure
as all the ways you like, share and subscribe it
to the podcast so you get alerted every time a
new one rolls out. You never know if it'll be
just Joe and I talking a little trash, or maybe
we'll have someone on to talk about giving back as well.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
That is the goal every week.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And if we don't have someone and then we talk
about it ourselves, giving back to our great state and
not filling the landfill because when it's full, we got problems.
And I learned last week that will happen in our lifetime.
We'll see you all next week.
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