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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.

For more information, visit www.wastebenefit.co.za

The Waste Hierarchy

The waste management hierarchy provides a framework for prioritizing waste management strategies, from most to least preferred options:

1.

Avoid

Maximum conservation of resources

2.

Reuse

Reusing Materials

3.

Recycle

Recycling & reprocessing materials

4.

Waste to Energy

Energy recovery prior to disposal

5.

Disposal of Waste

Zero conversion of resources

Metals & Mining

Metals & Mining

  • Heavy metal effluent
  • Tailings
  • Slag
  • Filter cake
  • Spent acids
  • Millscale
  • Contamined fuels
Common hazardous waste

Common hazardous waste

  • Sludge
  • Oily rags
  • Used oils & grease
  • Contaminated ppe
  • Lead acid batteries
Paint, coatings & Automotive

Paint, coatings & Automotive

  • Inks, additives and pigments
  • Solvents
  • Aerosols
  • Used packaging
  • Lubricants & greases
  • Oil filters
Chemicals, fertilizers & manufacturing

Chemicals, fertilizers & manufacturing

  • Expired chemicals
  • Acidic waste
  • High COD effluent
  • Low pH effluent
  • Catalyst
  • Pesticides
Textile & Leather

Textile & Leather

  • Tannery leather shavings
  • Wood pulp
  • Animal waste
  • Dyes & pigments
  • Glue
Food, beverages & retail

Food, beverages & retail

  • Off spec produce
  • Abattoir waste
  • Fat trap waste
  • Pharmaceuticals
Other hazardous waste

Other hazardous waste

  • Sandblasting grit
  • Oil filters
  • Ash
  • Asbestos