How our standard recycling service for home & business recycling collection service works for you.

Pick-Up Waste wheelie binYou register by clicking on the sign up link for R199.00 once off and get a 240 litre Pick-up-Waste Blue wheelie recycling bin delivered to your office or business as well as a clean bin liner after collecting the full one at a monthly subscription of only R85 - less than R3 a day.

Two collections & waste pick ups per month.

Including 240 litre Pick-up-Waste Blue Recycling dustbin

What can you recycle?

Into the supplied Clear 100% recycled bin liners you place the items below and then into your single Pick-up-Waste Blue 240 Litre bin for bi weekly collections.

All Recyclable items are simply rinsed and then Mixed in the clear bags and placed into the Blue Pick-up-Waste Recycling Bin.

Items that have a SIGNIFICANT environmental impact:

Plastic- Plastic bottles, containers, Cling wrap (Separate from tray and remove bar code or any other paper) plastic bags, plastic tubs numbered #1 to #7 including yogurt and margarine tubs (Numbers are located under or on the side in a recycling symbol) and take away food containers free of food residues, rinsed and cleaned. Polystyrene

Glass - Beer, wine, food jars and drinking bottles.

Metals - Food cans that have been cleaned. (Try and open the can with the lid still attached and press it back into the can. This way it stays one can and doesn't become a can and a cutting instrument). Beverage cans old pots /pans and aerosol cans.

Other - Ink cartridges, Domestic batteries, globes, E-waste: electronic equipment, Electric appliances.
Mixed together with items that DO NOT have a Significant Environmental Impact;
Like Paper, News paper, magazines, brochures, mail, books, junk mail, cereal boxes, office paper, till slips, cigarette boxes and corrugated cardboard. All Cardboard boxes need to be flattened and if too large tied with string and placed next to the bin.

Pick-up-Waste Recycling Home pick ups- One bin to rule them all

Recycling is processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from land filling) by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the “Reduce, and Reuse" waste hierarchy.

Recyclable materials include many kinds of Recycled glass, Recycled Paper, Recycled Cans, Recycled Plastics, Recycled Cardboard and Recycled Electronics. Materials to be recycled are collected from the Pick-up-Waste Blue Bins and then sorted, cleaned, and sent to companies for manufacturing into new products.

Recyclable materials include many kinds of Recycled glass, Recycled Paper, Recycled Cans, Recycled Plastics, Recycled Cardboard and Recycled Electronics. Materials to be recycled are collected from the Pick-up-Waste Blue Bins and then sorted, cleaned, and sent to companies for manufacturing into new products.

It’s the future for responsible resource conservation and an important step toward meeting the goal of building a Zero Waste community in Potchefstroom. Using just one Pick-up-Waste blue home collection bin for all your recyclable items increases the ease and convenience of recycling so that more people participate and more resources are saved. We’re making recycling easier for you — at home, work or school.

Pick-Up Waste Recycling Owners

Our hassle free Household and business pick up and separation service is exactly what people are looking for to contribute to making South Africa a more Green and Eco-friendly sustainable environment.

Potchefstroom economic basis is modern and aimed at the future. These businesses are all highly aware of the need to implement more eco-friendly practices into daily business and recycling is a key component.

Potchefstroom areas are well known for the high quality of its residential and social infrastructure and the growth in recycling awareness in all local schools has been tremendous in the last few years resulting in Pick-up-Waste’s home recycling collection services being in ever greater demand across Potchefstroom.

Keep Potchefstroom Clean - Recycling

Pick-up-Waste’s Potchefstroom Recycling Household pick up business is in complete alignment with the City Council endeavours to keep the town and environment clean and tidy. Potchefstroom home and business recycling are key green initiatives.