COLLECT-A-CAN (PTY) LTD | 402 Rustic Av, Silvertondale, Pretoria, 0184, Gauteng

Collect a Can Pty Ltd is a South African based can recovery and recycling organisation with a head office and seven branches across southern Africa including branches in Botswana and Namibia Collect a Can founders ArcelorMittal South Africa and Nampak started the company 23 years ago to proactively address the steel beverage can industrys responsibility to the environment This resulted in the recovery of all scrap tinplate generated in the tinplate and can making processes including cut offs misprints substandard fills and most importantly used metal cans Since Collect a Can started southern Africas used can recovery rate has improved from 18 percent to 72 percent We work actively within various communities encouraging citizens from all walks of life to assist us in our can collecting efforts Our Cash for Cans initiative encourages cans to be collected and sold to Collect a Can for cash because we know that recovery and recycling aids job creation in many communities and creates an additional source of income