Youth find business opportunity with the new rolled-out wheelie bins

Tsakane – The wheelie waste bins that are currently being rolled out by the City of Ekurhuleni mean different things to different people.

Tsakane-based Bafana Magagula, Kamogelo Sekele and Tshepo Mokoena, it means business opportunity.

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The trio are providing cleaning services and safeguard the bins until owners collect them when they return from work in the afternoon.

“When the roll-out started, we realised there were challenges of theft, and right there we saw an opportunity to start the cleaning service, which in turn addresses the issue of theft.

“We clean and keep the bins until residents are back from work,” says Sekele, who is the co-founder of Kasi Bin Wash.

The three entrepreneurs service about 30 bins every week for a fee and collect the money on a monthly basis.

Sekele says the business has been growing to the point that they have opened another branch in a different section of Tsakane, where 15 bins are serviced per week so far.

“We want to continue to enlarge our business so we can employ more young people like us in the township.

“We are also aware of the theft challenge in the suburbs and we are ready to help.”

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Sekele, a marketing management graduate from Damelin, is encouraging young people, including graduates, to look at local business opportunities to improve their situations.

There are various advantages of using the wheelie bin. These bins provide more storage capacity than the smaller refuse bins previously used, they are compatible with the lifting mechanism of the city’s new waste removal trucks, (and thus workers do not have to carry bins on their backs), they have a longer lifespan (approximately eight years), they are easy to clean, minimise the tearing of bags by rodents and stray dogs and they are easy to handle with a low risk of being exposed to sharp objects.

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