How does it work?

recycle-manual1 During the start-up week each household receives a starter pack in their mailbox that comprises of the following:

2 clear plastic bags (the size of your normal black refuse bag)
Introduction letter (with all the official detail)
Recycling Manual that explains what can and cannot be recycled.

Click here to find out what you can recycle.

The 2 clear bags are your starter bags for the 1^st week of recycling. Thereafter we deliver new clear bags weekly (one new clear bags for each full bag collected).

Here you see how the recycling process works:

Step 1

You should put all your recycling inside the clear bag and put it next to your wheeliebin on the normal waste collection day.

Step 2

We will pick up the clear bags and take them to our recycling depots

Your clear bags (with all your recycling inside) are then collected before the normal waste trucks arrive on your normal waste collection day.

Step 3

We then take all these clear bags to one of our licensed sorting plants (Helderberg Industrial Park, Strand or Maitland, Cape Town) from where they are opened and sorted into 17 different streams.

Step 4

The material is processed, bailed and sold back into the recycling markets. This material is used for manufacturing new items like rooftiles, pictureframes, ceiling boards, new plastic bags and so on.