B
That's very cool. You know there's a, I heard about a similar program in New York City where, uh, a thing called like Homeless Incorporated or something like that, but what they do is employ, uh, homeless, I think mostly men, but homeless people to uh, go out and collect all the recyclable cans and and I think it's mostly cans. There may be bottles as well, but like beer cans, soda cans and what not and they, uh, bring them up to a one lo-, one centralized location and, uh, are able to collect the money from the various beer and, and soda manufacturers and, uh, and get more money to these people that desperately need it.
A
Oh yeah. Uh, I guess partly because of our climate. Here in Saskatoon at least, the majority of central, uh, well, I want to say Central Canada, but Central Canada tends to referred more to Ontario and Quebec --
B
Yeah.
A
-- but, uh, we don't have much of a situation where we might call them homeless people. We certainly have a fair number of people that are on welfa-, welfare and unemployment insurance and that kind of thing. Uh, there's psychological pressure against employing people to do that kind of thing although, uh, scouts and hockey teams and ball teams, those kinds, uh, regularly do bottle drives where they go around in various neighborhoods and collect the bottles at individual homes.
B
Do they do it with news papers as well?
A
They have done it some, uh, but we have actually quite an extensive network of collecting news papers. They are actually at, virtually all of the shopping centers. Like the shopping malls. There are several containers where the group called Cosmopolitan Industries collects or people can drop their used news papers and other papers in the bins and then the bins are collected.