Many things can be recycled, including steel and aluminium cans, glass jars and bottles, milk bottles, some plastics, cardboard and paper. Place these recyclable items in your recycle rubbish bin at home. In some areas, paper and newspaper recyclers will even come to your place to pick up your items. If you have old clothes, books, toys, kitchenware or furniture in good condition that you don't want, give them to a charity instead of throwing them away. You will be helping many people that cannot afford to buy brand new goods. If you can also reuse any items in your household then do so. This reduces the amount of rubbish going into landfill and also saves you money! Try some of these ideas: Reuse glass jars and bottles as vases for flowers and dried arrangements; in the kitchen to store dry flours, breadcrumbs, popcorn kernels, soup mixes, jams; in the garage to store nails, picture hooks, screws, bolts; in the kid's room to hold pens, pencils, textas, water for paintbrushes, stamps, shell collections Reuse pepper and herb shaker jars (with holes in the top) for kid's hundreds and thousands, cake sprinkles, cocoa, glitter Reuse newspapers in your garden to lay over the soil before applying mulch Give the kids any cardboard packaging that you get from cereal boxes, manchester and men's shirts as a cheap building material for them Always use both sides of paper in the office or at home. If you get together many pieces of paper with a blank side, staple them together and make your own new notebooks to use near the phone!