Welcome to Collect-a-Can

We have been collecting cans for 17 years.  We understand the recycling industry, so let us help you do well, while doing good.

Collect-a-Can is a joint venture between ArcelorMittal South Africa (Africa’s major steel producer and producer of tinplate for food and beverage cans) and Nampak (Africa’s largest packaging company and beverage can producer). We actively work within the community to support recycling initiatives and have a strong commitment to socio economic empowerment.

About Us

Collect-a-Can is a recovery as opposed to a profit driven company and has proven that it is self-sustainable, by managing its operations and cost structures at optimum levels  -  assuring the respective southern African governments, environmentalists and the public of Collect-a-Can's long-term stability.

Collect-a-Can's shareholders are ArcelorMittal South Africa (Africa's major steel producer and producer of tinplate for food and steel cans) and Nampak (Africa's largest packaging company and beverage can manufacturer).

The Company was established in 1993 to pro-actively address the steel beverage can industry's share of responsibility pertaining to the ever increasing environmental needs of the region.  Collect-a-Can is dedicated to the minimization of can litter in southern Africa and to ensure that used cans and consequently tinplate, exist in harmony with the environment.  The Company is unique in as much that southern Africa is the only region in the world where the producers of material for steel cans and the can manufacturer have come together to lead and inspire the recovery of used cans.

Over the past 17 years, Collect-a-Can has been at the forefront of minimizing the negative impact of used cans on the environment.

We are since involved in the recovery of all scrap tinplate generated in the tinplate and can-making processes, including sludge, cut-offs (skeletons), misprints, sub-standard fills, and most importantly, the recovery of used cans.

All recovered scrap and used cans are either processed to add value (de-tinning and briquetting) or prepared and sold for recycling, resulting in a complete loop, called “cradle-to-cradle”.

Our Mission

Ensuring that steel cans and related can production material are effectively recovered. Identifying and exploring opportunities to render Collect-a-Can self-sustainable. Collaborating with stakeholders (government, schools, media, etc.) in ensuring that the environment is taken care of. To encourage and empower entrepreneurs through can collection. To assist the people of Collect-a-Can and stakeholders live the mission.  It has been shortened to the following slogan:  "Do well, while doing good."

Our Vision

It is our vision to be the most successful, self-sustaining, one-way packaging recovery company, dedicated to the realisation of the land where beverage cans exist in perfect harmony with the environment.