Recycle Zimbabwe
Make a difference at a local level . . . help reduce the growing litter problem in Zimbabwe and make a bit of money at the same time!
Plastix Incorporated is a plastic manufacturing company that does recycling and manufacturing of finished products. They are based at 72 Lytton Road, Workington in Harare. Plastix was formed in 2009.
The advantages of recycling plastic in Zimbabwe
Using waste plastic that is collected in Zimbabwe means do not have to import recycled plastic from South Africa as raw material. So it means we have stopped the dumping of yet another product. Basically when you are importing recycled plastic from South Africa, you are importing another nation’s trash. But you have done nothing about your own trash.
Getting practical
A lot of things can be done. We have so many things that need attention in our communities. So per street as women what can you do? You have so many plastic things in the home – put them in one bag. Then every week, or at the end of every month, the hundred houses in your street put the bags on the corner. We come and pick the bags up and we pay money to that street. Are you not then able to patch potholes properly?
Tell us more
There is a home for this plastic! That home is Plastix, where we buy used plastic and recycle that plastic to make bin liners. Let’s take schools as one example. We have heard complaints like ‘We don’t have books, children are sharing books’. If mothers start talking to their children at home, telling the children that if they put every little empty packet of maputi in a recycle bin rather than just throw it on the ground then they will be fundraising for their school. Each child by the end of the year, if you give it a time frame for a year, that school would have raised funds to buy books for the children. Or they can fix those windowpanes that they were waiting for the government to do. Who is the government? The government is us! We have not thought about who is the government. We are the government. Mary is the government. Mary is the City Council. Why are we complaining? We need to change our frame of mind.
Action: Contact Mary at Plastix and work with her to recycle waste plastic products.
Email: sales [at] plastixinc [dot] net
Cell: (+263) 0772 399 453 / 0773 226 611 / 0712 667 888
Alternatively, take your waste plastic to the Zimbabwe Sunshine Project, 6 Borrowdale Lane, so that they can earn money from your rubbish to support their vocational training programmes for disabled young adults.