Lephuting is a Recycling Champion

Andiswa Lephuting is focusing more time and energy on taking care of her children through recycling waste.

Lephuting beat a drug addiction by starting using her time to learn about the importance of recycling.

She told Sowetan that the reason she chose to leave everything and the streets, was because she wanted to give her children the best mother they could have.

 “I had to turn my life around to support my children,” Lephuting told the Sowetan.

An opportunity (in a form of a mobile app) to learn how to recycle was presented to her and she took it, today she can put bread on the table for her children.

The mobile app was developed by Chad Robertson and Nkazimlo Miti (who own a recycling startup company, Regenize, to enable recycling to connect and find opportunities.

Robertson and Miti wanted to offer locals the opportunity to use the internet and a mobile phone to change their financial situations while impacting their own communities.

She told the Sowetan that there were many opportunities that can be presented by one being open minded about recycling.

Apart from connecting users with potential customers, the recycling app also affords members of the public the opportunity to collect recyclables in their own homes and hand them over to recyclers, they earn points which can be redeemed at local shops in exchange for food, airtime, and electricity.

“Waste collectors make a big difference in our communities,” she said.

Editor’s note: a mobile app was created to provide users (recyclers) with an opportunity to trade waste. The mobile app was developed by Chad Robertson and Nkazimlo Miti (who own a recycling startup company, Regenize, to enable recycling to connect and find opportunities.

Description: Andiswa Lephuting is focusing more time and energy on taking care of her children through recycling waste. She uses an app that provides users (recyclers) with an opportunity to trade waste.

Editor: Anirlé de Meyer

Project manager: Anirlé de Meyer