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Joburg goes on a drive to reduce waste

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The City of Johannesburg says it wants to drastically reduce the amount of recyclable waste going to landfill sites.

From this Sunday, Johannesburg residents will be required to separate recyclable material from their waste before disposing of it.

The City says it is running out of space for rubbish. Johannesburg’s MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services, Nico De Jager says currently only 10% of the waste in Johannesburg is recycled and the other 90% goes to landfill sites.

He says they want to reduce waste going to the landfill sites by another 20%.

“This is basically how we will do it. We are distributing two bags to residents. And that’s a blue bag and a clear bag. What goes into the bag? First of all paper, newspapers magazines, anything paper. Please not a pizza box, pizza boxes are contaminated with oil and not milk cartoons. Then we putting in plastic.”

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