Our story

This wild idea started with a dream in 2018. A Dutch man walked in the streets of Hammersdale in South-Africa. What he saw? A poor community who couldn’t provide for themselves and streets full of trash. People without work, without hope, in the middle of polluted streets. Out of frustration he trapped one of the plastic bottles away and said to himself, the only thing I see is trash!! It was at that moment that Cash for Trash was born. 

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Now this is only half of the story. Over the entire world we try in every way to help our climate by recycling our trash. So here is why it gets interesting. What if you can use trash to give poor people a sustainable way of providing for themselves? We believe we can! Especially in the western world plastic pollution is a serious issue to many people. And most people/ companies are willing to invest on solving that problem. That creates a great opportunity for the people in the township!! We asked around at several companies and found out that there are many who wants to help!

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While we got this idea in 2017, it took a while before starting up because of Covid. We also had to prepare the Codah organisation in Hammersdale South Africa where we wanted to start this new project. Now as I'm writing this in october 2023 we are actually starting up this recycle project!