Recyclables that arrive sorted, on time and on record.
ecoCollectors connects households, businesses, waste collectors, buy-back centres and retailers on one platform, so recyclable material reaches processors cleaner and more predictably, with proof of where it came from.
Your digital procurement and supply-assurance layer for South Africa’s recycling economy.
Available in English, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Sesotho
How a pickup works
From a bag at the gate to a verified record at the depot, in four steps.
Request
Choose your materials, add photos and collection instructions in the app or on WhatsApp.
Collect
A registered trolley or mobile collector accepts the request and confirms before arriving.
Deliver
Material goes to a partner depot or processor, which receives it and makes an offer or pays for it.
Reward and report
Recyclers earn points for retail vouchers; partners see volumes and impact on their dashboard.
Built for everyone in the chain
Each role gets its own view of the platform. Choose yours.
Your recycling, collected and counted.
For households, offices, estates and complexes.
- Request a pickup in minutes, or drop off at a nearby depot.
- Registered collectors who confirm before they arrive.
- Points and badges on every pickup, redeemable for retail vouchers.
- Businesses get a monthly record of what was diverted from landfill.
Know where the material is. Get paid for all of it.
For trolley collectors, reclaimers and small collection businesses.
- Pickup requests on WhatsApp, in your language, with no app needed.
- Households have already sorted their bags and are expecting you.
- See the material and bag count before you accept.
- A record of every collection that can show your income.
Secure your supply without a price war.
For buy-back centres, depots, processors and waste companies.
- A steadier inflow of pre-sorted recyclables from registered collectors.
- Sorting and quality checks move upstream, before material reaches you.
- Send purchase offers, pick-up fees or drop-off acceptance in the app.
- An ESG dashboard with volumes by material, ready to share with buyers.
Reward the behaviour your customers already want to show.
For retailers, brand owners, PROs and corporate sustainability teams.
- Recycling points that are redeemed as vouchers in your stores.
- Collection programmes that support waste-picker inclusion.
- Reporting on recyclers engaged, kilograms collected and areas reached.
- We run the collection and verification; you see the results.
Built for enterprise use from day one
Partners trust ecoCollectors with their data and their reporting, so we treat both seriously.
Traceable records
Every request, collection and delivery is logged, giving a digital trail of origin, material and volume.
Privacy by design
Personal information is handled in line with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), with role-based access for each user type.
Hosted on Microsoft Azure
Enterprise-grade cloud hosting, with APIs available for secure integration into your existing systems.
Fits your governance
Reporting and oversight that slot into your existing ESG, procurement and audit processes.
We’re onboarding pilot partners
We are looking for a small group of buy-back centres, retailers and sponsors to launch with in one area, measure the results together and scale from there.