Think Twice is the City of Cape Town’s free door-to-door municipal recycling collection service.
This proven method has been operating successfully in The City of Cape Town for over five years.
In previous pilot phases, many lessons have been learnt which have been put to use as the
Think Twice system gains in efficiency and popularity.
Waste Control has recently been contracted to the City of Cape Town to provide a domestic and
recyclable waste collection services to residents of
- Clifton
- Bantry Bay
- Camps Bay
- Llandundo
- Hout Bay
- Bakoven
The free service will collect your recyclable materials each week on the same day as your refuse removal.
All you need do is get your waste sorted!
Get sorted for recycling it's as easy as 1, 2, and 3!
Follow these simple steps to get into the recycling routine.
One:
Collect all your 'dry` recyclables (paper, bottles, tins, plastic containers) in the clear plastic bag you will regularly receive
Two:
Each week on your refuse removal day, place your clear bag of recyclables on top of your black bag inside the wheelie-bin.
Three:
Waste Control will remove your recyclables first and leave a new clear bag for you to start collecting the next week's recyclables.
Please help by remembering to:
- Remove lids and caps and rinse out containers and bottles
- Squeeze plastic bottles and containers flat
- Prevent glass items from breaking
- Flatten big cardboard boxes and place beside the wheelie-bin.
Other wet and non-recyclable waste in your wheelie-bin goes into the refuse truck in the usual way before being compacted and disposed of at the landfill site.
Where do your recyclables go?
Your bag of recyclables is collected and loaded into a separate vehicle. From there it is transported to a specially built recycling facility for separating and made ready for later reprocessing into new materials.
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