Time to recycle
I-Collect., a textile recycling business, wants to give schools and organisations the opportunity to clean up their environment, raise funds and promote entrepreneurship.
Residents are urged to support this course and deposit any items such as clothing and recyclable items in the collection bin.
The business collects used textile and clothing from organisations and schools, weighs the material and pays them a set fee per kilogram.
The collected material is then sorted, baled and sold to informal traders and small businesses nationally.
Waste is also baled or shredded and used in the industrial sectors.
A branded collection bin can be ordered as a permanent feature on the school or organisation premises.
Once it has been filled the organisation will collect the material.
I-Collect can also supply numbered bags to schools to give to all their students.
The pupils have to take their bags home fill them up and bring them back to school where they will be collected by i-collect.
Each class will also be given a control sheet that will state the weight of the bags.
The organisation also gives back to the community by donating R1 for every kilogram collected to Cansa.
There is a convenient drop-off station outside the Benoni City Times office in Northmead Square.
Other drop-offs stations are at the St Dunstan’s College, Ashton International College and Kathstan College.
For more information contact i-collect on 011 894 3831, 0860 425 555 or alternatively email them at info@i-collect.co.za
