Products

Glass:

Some bottles are returnables (e.g. spirits , Beer and Soft drink bottles) that is they can be used over again by bottlers. So you can give back this bottles as returnables to the buy-back center and will get better remuneration for them. All other bottle jars are recycled. We give you a piece of mind in the fact that we don’t require you to remove bottle tops, lids and metal foil before sending them to us.

What glass bottles are recycled?

· Beer bottles (only 750 ml are returnable)

· Food Jars

· Other spirit (Most Distell bottles are returnable)

· Soft Drink Bottles (1, 25 l are returnable)

· Bottles must be sorted into three colours that green, brown(amber) and flint(clear)

Do not mix your glass bottles with window panes, wind-screens, cutlery, ceramics, and metals ad stones.

Paper and Cardboard

The paper collected for recycling comes from industry, schools, homes and offices.

What Doesn’t Work? : Polystyrene or paper cups and plates, Yogurt cartons, Sweet / chip wrappers, Blueprint paper, Organic material, Cigarette ends, Tissues and paper towels, Plastic wrapping, Carbon paper, Post-it notes, Waxed cartons,…or anything you are not sure of.

What Works? : Old memos / letters, Computer paper, Used photocopy paper, Windowless envelopes, Old books, Pale coloured paper (invoices, etc.) Newspapers, Magazines, Cardboard (Flattened).

Here are the grades you must divide your paper into:

H L1 (White Paper): Excercise books, photocopy paper, printing/computer paper and letters.

SBM (Magazines) : Magazines, glossy catalogues and brochures.

FN (Newspapers) : Newspapers.

K4 (Cardbourd) : Cardboard.

Common : Mixed paper, other forms of recyclable paper.

Cans:

Empty cans from the shebeens, schools other areas must be sorted into different grades to get maximum returns. Cans must be sorted into these grades, quality beverage steel cans , partially rusted steel cans, aerosol, food , oil and paint cans and aluminum cans. Cans can either be delivered to or collected by collect-a-can.

What not to collect with Cans:

· No paper (Except can labels), glass, plastic, cardboard or other scrap metal in accepted.

· Oil cans to be separated and drained.

· Lids of paint and similar tins must be removed.

Plastic:

Post-use plastics present problems of identification, separation and also contamination. But where sufficient volumes of readily classifiable materials are available - pallet wrapping or sacks used by industry and agriculture, for example - recycling is successfully achieved.

Recovery of plastics packaging presents the greatest challenge, not least in achieving economic collection of sufficient segregated material to make recycling viable. The PET bottle, being used in increasing quantities in many countries for marketing drinks, is an excellent example of a highly-recyclable form of packaging. Polyethylene terephthalate - to give PET its full name - is a sophisticated material of great strength which is used very efficiently as a beverage container. The scope for recycling PET is enormous - provided the mass collection of used bottles can be developed at an acceptable cost.

What is Recyclable?

. Type 1 - PETE Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Soda & water containers, some waterproof packaging.

· Type 2 - HDPE High-Density Polyethylene Milk, detergent & oil bottles. Toys and plastic bags.

· Type 3 - Vinyl/Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Food wrap, vegetable oil bottles, blister packages.

· Type 4 - LDPE Low-Density Polyethylene Many plastic bags. Shrink wrap, garment bags.

· Type 5 - PP Polypropylene Refrigerated containers, some bags, most bottle tops, some carpets, some food wrap.

· Type 6 - PS Polystyrene Throwaway utensils, meat packing, protective packing.

· Type 7 - OTHER Usually layered or mixed plastic. No recycling potential - must be land filled.

Types 1 and 2 are commonly recycled. Type 4 is less commonly recycled. The other types are generally not recycled, except perhaps in small test programs. Common plastics polycarbonate (PC) and acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) do not have recycling numbers. The code must be molded into the plastic item. The symbol should be easily visible for sorting purposes. The best symbols are large with a different surface finish than the surrounding plastic. If the container has a matte surface (rough), then the symbol should be smooth, a smooth container should have a rough recycling symbol. Before sending us any Plastic Recyclable please give us a call.

Used Oil

Recycling used motor oil keeps oil out of landfills and ensures that this oil is available for reuse, reconditioning, reprocessing or re-refining.

Used oil is a valuable resource. By encouraging South Africans to pour their used oil back into an empty oil container take it to Rirothe recycling facility will be helping to conserve a valuable resource and protect the environment.

How can used oil be recycled?

Used oil can be cleaned of contaminants so it can be recycled again and again. There are many uses for

recycled used oil. These include:

· Industrial burner oil, where the used oil is dewatered, filtered and demineralised for use in

industrial burners;

· Mould oil to help release products from their moulds (e.g. pressed metal products, concrete);

· Hydraulic oil;

· Bitumen based products;

· An additive in manufactured products; or

· Re-refined base oil for use as a lubricant, hydraulic, or transformer oil.

Metal

Ferrous (Iron) Metals: By-product material from the engineering industries, redundant tanks and silos, obsolete machine tools, retired railway locomotives, dismantled bridges, entire ships, demolished steel-framed buildings, worn-out motor vehicles and a multiplicity of discarded consumer durables. Ferrous Metals have Iron contents.

We buy ferrous metals in the following categories:

· Sub-Grade (Light Steel) Steel : Motor vehicle panels, fridges, corrugated roofing and most household appliances.

· Steel: Most engineering and industries by-product material

· Cast-Iron: heavy steel (e.g. motor-vehicles engines, old stoves and others)

A non-ferrous metal may be used in isolation - as in copper piping, for example - or as a constituent of an alloy such as brass.

There is a wide range of Non-ferrous Metals.
The Common ones we buy are:

· Copper,

· Aluminium,

· Lead,

· Brass,

· Zinc and

· Magnesium but embraces also some of the most precious substances known to humanity.

Tyres

Tyres are a disposal problem as they consume considerable airspace relative to their weight and cannot be compacted.

South Africa has an extremely well-developed re-treating industry due to sanctions, and re-treating tyres is still one of the best ways to obtain maximum use from them while temporarily reducing their contribution to the waste stream. Ultimately, however, tyres still need to be disposed of. It is worth noting they have a calorific value well above that of coal, and therefore lend themselves to uses as a fuel in cement kilns and ordinary furnaces for the production of electricity.

Regulatory efforts have been directed at minimising the disposal of scrap tyres: the European Union, for example, recently prohibited the landfilling of whole used tyres - a move which will push an additional 750 000 tonnes of scrap tyres on to the market each year; the ban is to be extended to shredded tyres in due course.

Tyres in landfill sites create problems as :

· They are not compactable and when trampled, they spring back again.

· They add to the fire hazard in landfills because they burn easily.

· In a fire, only about a third of a tyre's oil is consumed. The rest seeps into the ground or, not

finding it's way into an aquifer or water supply source, mingles with the rotting garbage and in turn,

can cause further landfill fires.

· They encourage breeding of mosquitoes and tropical diseases e.g. Malaria, Yellow Fever.

· They collect gas which makes them rise to the surface causing aesthetic problems, damage to

final cover/capping.

· Increased awareness of environmental issues is making the disposal of waste tyres in landfill sites

unacceptable in environmentally conscious countries.

E-waste

E-waste, e-scrap, or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is a loose category of surplus, obsolete, broken, or discarded electrical or electronic devices. Did you know that the annual amount of e-waste generated from end-of-life electrical and electronic products (WEEE) is estimated to be a two digit amount, in million tons! And this is predicted to double in the coming decades.

What types of electronic equipment can be recycled?

All types of electronic waste can be recycled. That's the exciting news. Your I Phone, cell phone, I Pod, laptop, television set, fax machine, and even your microwave and your refrigerator can all be recycled. They are mainly made up of plastics, metals, and glass. All those commodities can be recycled, and go back to new products, and be reused. Reuse is the essence of great recycling practices.