What is recycling:
Recycling refers to a process of diverting or rescuing valuable materials from the waste stream.
Rescued materials or resources can be re-used, processed into alternative raw materials and/or manufactured into new products, instead of being condemned and disposed at dumpsites.
- As recycling continues to take shape in the country, new and unique opportunities keeps on emerging depending on the material stream one is handling.
- Some of major material streams in our waste which continue to offer opportunities for their value include:
- Plastics (PET, HDPE, PP, LDPE)
- Waste paper
- Scrap metal (Copper, aluminium, steel, cast iron e.t.c.
- Textile waste, used oil
- Rubber such as used tyres
- Bones for crushing to bone meal
- Composting of organic waste to organic fertilizer
- Collection of food waste for use as animal feeds.
Sample products made from recycled materials and re-use: