t of the Year 2015
material. This is an impressive feat in
anybody’s language, placing South Africa
amongst the top mechanical recycling
countries in the world,” Deputy Minister
Thompson said.
Proof of the successes that can be
achieved when public and private
partnerships take hands to find
solutions, could clearly be seen in the
Fifty/50 Wheelie Bin that walked away
with the overall honours of the night.
The City of Cape Town introduced 240
litre wheelie bins for refuse collection
in 1991. Traditionally, these bins were
made from 100 % virgin PE-HD, but the
City of Cape Town recently drew up a
specification for the wheelie bins to be
manufactured from 50 % recycled PEHD.
The recycled feedstock for the Fifty/50
wheelie bin is derived from the City of
Cape Town’s end-of-life wheelie bins
which are manufactured by Mpact
Plastic Containers.