When
you throw things away,
you are also throwing away
the materials, time and energy
used to make them.
Also, you are sending them to landlfill,
which is a waste of
land and transport resources
Use
your Orange garbie bag for:
Paper: Newspapers, magazines,
office paper, cardboard, packaging,
Tetra Brik milk and juice cartons
Plastic: Shopping bags, bottles (cold
drinks, cleaning products etc) and
packaging. Look for the recycle label
Cans: Beverage and food
Glass
bottles:
Drink and food bottles only.
Use Blue Bins at the Mtunzini Country
Club OR place in a cardboard box
and leave with your other garbage
bags on the pavement
Computer
ink cartridges: Nakop Technology in Rosewell Centre, Hely
Hutchingson St will recycle them
Batteries:
Lead acid batteries can be
dropped at Battery Centre in
Empangeni for recycling
Use
vegetable waste from your
kitchen to make
compost for your garden
THAT
BLACK BAG IS NOW
ALMOST EMPTY!
Recycling
News
Mtunzini
can deliver The
Orange Bag Project is no longer a trial run.
Mondi Recycling (the co-drivers of the project
with the Mtunzini Conservancy) has decided
that a full skip every three to four weeks
shows sufficient interest amongst residents
for the project to continue.
We are currently filling our sixth skip since
the trial period in November last year.
The goal is still to get all households on
board and fill a skip every two weeks with
recyclables.
Siyangena Services and Supplies, the company
which removes our refuse from the village,
has registered as a glass entrepreneur with
The Glass Recycling Company and Consol Glass,
and now includes glass in the recycling programme.
• Mtunzini Conservancy has sponsored
a trailer for Siyangena to begin collecting
glass for recycling. This trailer will be
handed over to them at SPAR on Saturday 25
July.
• SPAR has now agreed to sell
the orange recycling bags at cost price in
a bid to promote recycling in Mtunzini.
Make
recycling part of your life. SPAR displays
everyday products with recyclable packaging.
Bheki
Dube, foreman of Siyangena’s Mtunzini
crew,
fills a skip ready for recycling.
How
to become a recycler:
10 easy steps
Step
1
Buy
your orange garbage bags from SPAR at
their special low, low prices
Step
2
Familiarise
yourself with what can be recycled.
Check the lists below
Step
3
Separate
your waste and rinse all empty food
containers. Place all the recyclables
in the orange bag
Step
4
Goods
which cannot be recycled are to be placed
in standard black municipal garbage
bags
Step
5
On
refuse collection day, place both the
orange and the black bags on the kerbside
for removal
Step
6
Place
glass bottles in a box and either place
them with your refuse bags or take them
to the bottle recycling depot at the
Mtunzini Country Club
Step
7
Large
amounts of cardboard and paper will
be collected by Mondi on Wednesdays
Step
8
Be
proud for doing your bit for a better
environment
Step
9
Encourage
friends and neighbours to do the same
Step
10
Start
making a compost heap at the bottom
of the garden with your vegetable waste
Recycling
tips
Do's:
Don'ts
Newspapers
magazines
computer paper
letters
used photocopy paper
windowless envelopes
old books
pale coloured paper
cardboard (flattened)
cigarette
stompies
carbon paper
organic matter
plastic wrapping
tissue or paper towels
sweet/chip wrappers
yoghurt cartons
carbon paper
waxed crayons
. . . or anything you are not sure of
Share
your recycling tips with us . . .
What
to do with tyres is always a problem,
but Patti Brooks writes:
'A national plan is being formulated
to recyle old tyres. In the meantime
keep using them for swings, dog beds
and retaining walls. (I hope those are indigenous plants
in the retaining wall, Patti? - ed)
Make
recycling part of your life. SPAR displays
everyday products with recyclable packaging.
