. >> thank you, sir, senator bosman. >> thank you, mr. chairman and ranking member leahy for holding this important hearing. we appreciate you all being here, appreciate all of your hard work. myself and senator carper are co-chairs of the rerecycling caucus and, which is very, very active. i'm on lots of caucuses and i think that's one of the most active in the senate and really is doing a lot of good work. miss beckering, again, you know, recycling is such a no-brainer, it's a win-win situation, what a lot of people don't realize it also creates a lot of good jobs in relation to recycling. so, you get the benefit of cleaning up the oceans, cleaning up, you know, so much other things, which we all want, but it also is a big economic engine. can you talk a little about that? >> absolutely. and again, thank you for your leadership on the issues specifically with recycling. to your point, when you look at the municipal waste recycling program to date we've created 1300 jobs and 50% of those jobs have actually been for women so offering them