INDUSTRIES
WASTE EXCHANGE
Leveraging our extensive knowledge of waste generators and users across various industries, we facilitate strategic waste exchange programs that transform waste streams into valuable resources. Our expertise enables us to identify specific waste streams and by-products with significant potential for reuse or recycling by other companies. What may be waste to one organization can become a valuable resource for another—your waste could be someone's gold.
The benefits of waste exchange are immense: avoiding landfill disposal, reducing disposal costs, creating employment opportunities, and promoting environmental sustainability. Waste beneficiation is a well-established practice embedded in South Africa's Waste Act, reflecting our commitment to sustainable resource management.
According to the waste management hierarchy, waste must first be avoided. Where avoidance is not possible, it must be reduced, reused, recycled, or recovered. Disposal should only be considered as a last resort when no other viable options exist. This principle guides our approach to waste exchange and resource recovery.
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The Waste Hierarchy
The waste management hierarchy provides a framework for prioritizing waste management strategies, from most to least preferred options:
Avoid
Maximum conservation of resources
Reuse
Reusing Materials
Recycle
Recycling & reprocessing materials
Waste to Energy
Energy recovery prior to disposal
Disposal of Waste
Zero conversion of resources

Metals & Mining
- Heavy metal effluent
- Tailings
- Slag
- Filter cake
- Spent acids
- Millscale
- Contamined fuels

Common hazardous waste
- Sludge
- Oily rags
- Used oils & grease
- Contaminated ppe
- Lead acid batteries

Paint, coatings & Automotive
- Inks, additives and pigments
- Solvents
- Aerosols
- Used packaging
- Lubricants & greases
- Oil filters

Chemicals, fertilizers & manufacturing
- Expired chemicals
- Acidic waste
- High COD effluent
- Low pH effluent
- Catalyst
- Pesticides

Textile & Leather
- Tannery leather shavings
- Wood pulp
- Animal waste
- Dyes & pigments
- Glue

Food, beverages & retail
- Off spec produce
- Abattoir waste
- Fat trap waste
- Pharmaceuticals

Other hazardous waste
- Sandblasting grit
- Oil filters
- Ash
- Asbestos