Products
Various Products We Collect for Recycling
Learn more about what we collect
What we don’t recycle
Products we collect
Cans
Aluminium & metal food and beverage cans
Grade UBC
Glass
Wine bottles, Beer Bottles, Sauces.
Plastic – HDPE
- Milk bottles, shampoo bottles, detergent bottles
Mixed plastics
Plastics – PET
Water bottles, soft drink bottles
Poly Prop
Yogurt, buckets, margarine and ice-cream containers, plastic chairs, Tupperware
Polystyrene
Clear plastics
Clear and shrink wrap plastics
Magazines
Tetra Pack
Long-life milk boxes, fruit juice boxes
E-waste
Computers, laptops, printers, washing machines, tumble dryers,
White paper – HL1
- White paper, printing paper
Card boxes
Corrugated card boxes
Mixed paper CMW
Plastics – PET mix
Steel
Light steel, heavy steel
Newspaper
What we don’t recycle
Although The Recyclers would like to recycle all recyclable products there are some technical issues in South Africa that puts constraints on certain recyclable products.
Here then a list of what The Recyclers don’t recycle or products that are not currently recyclable in
South Africa:
- Plastic food packaging containers (ex. fruit, sandwich and cake containers)
- Although it states recyclable, there are technical issues in SA with recycling this type of containers.
- Polystyrene food packaging containers
- Any food contaminated containers or products
- Food Wrappers
- Any plastics containing foil (ex. Chips and chocolate wrappers, detergent plastics, dog food plastics)
- Paint tins
- Syringes
- Used tissue or toilet paper
- Window glass or Windscreen glass
- Light bulbs (Please recycle at your nearest Pick a Pay)
- Hardware tubes, lubricants or adhesives
- Rubber, sponge and inflatable devices
- Garden refuse
- Wood and building material
- No wet waste
- Fibre glass
- Nappies
- Straws
Get In Touch
Operations
Vernon Jevon — 082 448 8161
Vernon@therecyclers.co.za
info@therecyclers.co.za
The Recyclers (PTY) Ltd 2017/328765/07
Pretoria East
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