The Western Cape Industrial Symbiosis Programme (WISP), delivered by GreenCape, develops mutually profitable links between companies from all industrial sectors, so that under-utilised resources such as energy and water, and/or materials from one company can be recovered, reprocessed and re-used by others.
WISP facilitated a mutually beneficial relation between Quality Crate Manufacturers, a dynamic injection moulding company that produces crate for dairy and bread bakery industries, and West Coast Plastics, a small scale recycler of HDPE and PP plastics, returning waste plastics into usable recycled pellets for the manufacturing industry.
As a result, this led to an initial purchase of 18 tonnes of injection grade recycled HDPE plastic pellets. West Coast Plastics sold the pellets to Quality Crate Plastics at a total price of R180 000, generating additional revenue of R350 000 to West Coast Plastics, from the sale of recycled plastic pellets.
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