Mpact Recycling Seeks To Use Recycling To Help Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Earn A Living
Mpact Recycling Seeks To Use Recycling To Help Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Earn A Living. As the leading recycler in South Africa, Mpact Recycling collects approximately 600,000 tones of recovered recyclables per annum. All recovered paper material is supplied to its Mpact paper mills to be manufactured back into paper.
This is then used to manufacture innovative board products, which are sold to the South African packaging industry. Collected PET materials are sold to other recycling industry partners for processing, to be made into new PET bottles. The company has 16 of its own operations in major centres nationwide and has partnered with over 40 buy-back centres that deliver their waste paper and plastic to it for remuneration; as well as working with numerous suppliers countrywide. Thus giving the company a national footprint. Its recycling footprint doesn’t end there, it has also acquired Remade in 2016.
The company runs numerous pick-up programmes via schools, communities, and offices – not only do these initiatives raise recycling awareness and create income opportunities but to also push recycling levels to new heights. It’s part of its mission to develop practical, economically viable and environmentally sustainable solutions that bring it, and the world, closer to a true circular economy.
Mpact Recycling is focused on sustainability through active job creation, economic value and environmental responsibility. Most people are aware of the environmental benefits of recycling, but few consider the positive effect on the economy. Aside from 14 of its own operations in major centres around South Africa, Mpact Recycling has over 40 buy-back centres where traders deliver waste paper and plastic for payment.
With income opportunities for around 60 000 – 90 000 people in South Africa, many of whom are entrepreneurs and small business owners that rely on sustained volumes of recycled material to earn a living, the recycling industry has a significant role to play in the South African economy. By recycling, the company prevents valuable raw material going to landfill and ensures that it goes back into the manufacturing cycle for processing into new packaging.
