won't go down

Some Armand Hammer College students are here on project week. We present you with an excerpt of a brief exchange:

Her: "Do you recycle here in Duino?"
Me: "Uh...yeah..."
Her: "That's cool. Over at Armand Hammer we've got a windmill for the electricity, waste recycling units and we purify our own water! What do you do?"
Me: "um...See those cardboard boxes over there? With "plastic", "metal" and "paper" written on them? Wellllllll...let's say that's our recycling centre."