USED PLASTIC BOTTLE RECYLING PROCESS

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RECYCLING PLANT The granulated material is
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SOURCE sent to a washing plant. 6
Waste is collected suitable for recycling are The recyclable material
ON SITE granulated. The water is then treated and material is melted in a RECYCLING PLANT
from Generators.
Sorting of material discharged in an environmentally melting process. The melted granular material is
according to grades and compliant manner. moved to a palletising process.
also eliminate contamination.

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RE-MANUFACTURING RECYCLING PLANT
Based on the quality test results, the RECYCLING PLANT
12 The manufacturers use the 10 material is packaged and batched. Samples of the granules are
material to manufacture new 8 taken to check the quality.
CONSUMER READY products. RECYCLING PLANT
The new product is sold The batches are sold to a market that RECYCLING PLANT
to the public. manufactures second grade plastic products. The waste is now a raw material.
ABOUT THE ROSE FOUNDATION FORECOURT PROJECT
Used motor lubricating oil plastic bottles and cans, must be recycled.
The ROSE Foundation has operated an initiative called the Forecourt Project since 2000. Its pri-
mary focus is the collection of empty oily bottles and cans from service stations across all the fuel
brands to ensure the responsible recycling of these materials.
Prior to 2016, the project was conducted by Collect-A-Can. At the beginning of 2016, the ROSE
Foundation took the project 'in-house', so to speak, by appointing three service providers to do
the collection of this waste stream in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg.
The ROSE Foundation paid for all the collection and the disposal of the waste. In addition, ROSE
supplied four vehicles to assist with the collection, one each in Cape Town and Durban and two in
Johannesburg.
In 2018, the ROSE Foundation decided to revise the model, particularly the funding aspect of the
model. The new model requires that the generators (service stations) must pay for the disposal of
this waste, rather than the ROSE Foundation. This has required that the waste collection compa-
nies gear themselves up to negotiate and agree a collection fee for the service rendered.
The new model also allowed ROSE to increase the collector base by having more collectors
spread throughout the country instead of just having collections happening only in the three ma-
jor centres of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. The new model will see collectors seeking
accreditation with the ROSE Foundation for the collection of this waste stream in other parts of
the country. The list of forecourt collectors is available on the ROSE website under The Forecourt
Project.
ROSE Foundation
Suite A9, Waverley Court
7 Kotzee Road, Mowbray
7925
Tel: +27 21 448 7492 | Faxmail: +27 86 652 7384 | Email: info@rosefoundation.org.za