Walker’s Recycling

Nature knows no waste and our urban systems can learn a lot from the manner in which material and nutrients are continuously recycled by natural systems! In a climate resilient economy, there will be no such thing as waste.

Walkers Recycling is a family-run business started by brothers Eddie and Chris Walker at their mother’s Mitchells Plain home. From their residential base they began collecting high-value recyclable material from the CBD in 2005. Whilst initially viewed as illegal ‘waste pickers’, the business has since evolved into a flourishing green enterprise (trading as C and E Logistics CC) that operates with full recognition from the City of Cape Town from an industrial park (click here for the waste service provider accreditation) and employs 10 people, all historically disadvantaged in the South African context.

The business has been collecting waste for a decade but initiated the idea of securing carbon credits in 2013. The project was audited for the first time in June 2015 and is now a recognised part of the City of Cape Town’s green economy.

Walker’s Recycling (Pty.) Ltd.) is based in Steenbras Road, Athlone, Cape Town. The company operates three vehicles with trailers that collects waste from homes, restaurants and nightclubs for sorting by the team of employees. As green entrepreneurs the company has used it carbon revenue to design and built equipment that separates ferro-chrome from iron in the waste stream, and compresses collected metal into ‘bales’.