On Saturdays the haulers, their wives and their children gathered at the recycling center to clean out the plastic pails they gave to customers for collecting the newspapers, magazines, bottles and other recycling materials.

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So all the water her family uses is in drums, plastic buckets, pots - any container that is clean.

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Thousands of Rwandans have taken the day off work to pick up plastic bags as part of a government attempt to clean up the environment.

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In the ad promoting the clean-diesel version of the Audi A3, ordinary citizens are high-handedly arrested for using plastic instead of paper, for possessing old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs and even for not recycling orange rinds.

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Sadly, the clean, classy matte finish of the Slim model has been replaced with the glossy, fingerprint-prone plastic that Vita, PSP and first-gen PS3 owners have come to know and loathe.

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The government has always been keen to keep Rwanda clean and correspondents say the capital, Kigali, is much cleaner than other African cities, where thin blue plastic bags can been seen in fields and on trees fluttering in the wind.

BBC: Rwanda gets tough on plastic bags