Packa-Ching Partners With Shoprite To Launch The Second Mobile Buy-Back Centre In Cape Town
Packa-Ching Partners With Shoprite To Launch The Second Mobile Buy-Back Centre In Cape Town. Shoprite has announced that it has partnered with Packa-Ching to launch the second mobile buy-back centre in Cape Town. This follows the success of the first centre that was launched in Langa.
Launched in Happy Valley, Blackheath, the new Packa-Ching unit will buy recyclable packaging material (plastic, glass, cans and paper) from the surrounding communities, including Delft, and Stellenbosch. The recyclable material is weighed and users are paid for the value thereof via a cashless eWallet system in real time. With a unique, entrepreneur-focused approach, each Packa-Ching recycling unit is owner-operated and the latest entrepreneur to be empowered through this programme is Clement Adams from Johencar Recycling.
Adams and his father started collecting waste and recycling it as a side hustle, but the demand soon grew so Johencar Recycling was established in 2011. “Before I was just a waste collector, but this unit has enabled me to buy waste and open up opportunities. Not only has it created an additional five jobs, it generates income for community members for recycling and the cashless system makes it so much easier, because it takes away the risk of carrying cash.” said Adams in a statement.
This innovative community recycling collection initiative significantly reduces waste volumes and facilitates a circular economy through recycling, while creating jobs and an income earning opportunity for the people who bring their recyclable materials to Packa-Ching. Packa-Ching services more than 79 communities and schools across South Africa and has diverted more than 5 million kilograms of waste from landfill, giving more than R4 million back to these communities.
Packa-Ching’s solution is an enterprise-operated mobile separation-at-source recycling service. It collects used recyclable packaging material from these communities which results in a cleaner environment. At the same time, Packa-Ching contributes to poverty alleviation by creating income earning opportunities by paying community members for their used recyclable packaging.
