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How to recycle and reduce your household rubbish.

1. Buy four bins or plastic boxes, making sure that they'e not too big to carry when full of bottles, or too big to fit all of them all in your car.
   
   
2. Label each of them; cans, glass, paper and plastic.
   
   
3. Start to be far more selective about what you and your household simply 'chuck' out, putting each item in the relevant bin. See the image above for a list of what can be recycled.
   
   
4. Remember to rinse anything that contained food before putting it in the bins; milk bottles and food cans can smell very bad, very quickly, especially in summer.

Getting your materials recycled.

1. Find a school or charity that is collecting what you have. This is a great option as the material that the charity collects provides them with much needed income.
   
   
2. Take everything to one of the Pikitup collection points that are positioned across Jo'burg. This is a convenient way of getting rid of everything all at once.
   
   
3. Contact Mondi (who collect paper and cardboard) and find out if and when they make a kerbside collection on your street. They will provide you with a large bag in which you can put all of your newspapers, magazines and cardboard. Leave this on the road outside your gate on the day of collection. Visit www.paperpickup.co.za for more info.

You can recycle old Nokia cellphones