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The Re-Trade Project is a community recycling and upliftment initiative based in Walmer Heights, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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The ReTrade Project is a community-based recycling and social empowerment project which seeks to sustainably provide its members and the community with an opportunity to be environmentally responsible while gaining access to food or basic essentials. The ReTrade Project has vision to provide underprivileged communities with an opportunity to be environmentally aware and access basic needs while still maintaining human worth and dignity within each person. OBJECTIVES:
1 SOCIAL; To assist disadvantaged individuals who need aid in providing for their basic human needs, by supplying a ‘value-for-value’ system though the exchange of recyclable goods for basic essentials such as food, toiletries and clothing.
2 ENVIRONMENTAL; to create awareness regarding the environmental crisis. It strives to do this by educating local communities in eco-sustainability and contributing to the restoration of the environment though public recycling depots. MISSION & PURPOSE:
ReTrade aims to become part of the solution by…
• Delivering a much needed ‘value for value’ concept rather than perpetuating a ‘hand-out’ mentality;
• Promoting responsibility and work ethic;
• Empowering people in our community to become self-sufficient by providing for themselves thus restoring dignity to them through their ability to choose for themselves and provide for their needs;
• Reaching across cultural and socio-economic boundaries with compassion and goodwill;
• Providing a means of work for those who need it, which potentially can empower people to generate better choices;
While…
• Creating awareness regarding the environmental crisis
• Educating our community in eco-sustainability by teaching people to look at rubbish in a new way
• Making a difference in cleaning up our environment

HOW IT WORKS:
- Families or individuals collect recyclable junk like plastic bottles, tins, card, white paper and mixed paper and then:
- Re-Trade: on Monday mornings, bring recyclables between 9:00 and 15:00 for an exchange from our Trade Store
- Volunteers assist 'Traders' with assessing the recyclable materials and then award points for clean and sorted recyclables
- Traders can then use their points to purchase goods in the Trade Store
- The Trade Store is primarily stocked by donations from individuals, large an small businesses, friends of the project and the wider community
- Recyclable materials are collected by Recycle Yourself and all profits attained are used to purchase new stock for the store

05/11/2026

♻️ NOW THIS IS WHAT COMMUNITY IN ACTION LOOKS LIKE! 💚

A HUGE shoutout to the NMB Business Chamber for showing up for The Re-Trade Project in a BIG way, arriving with LOADS of bags of recyclable materials! 🙌

You might see bags of recycling… but we see SO much more.

We see dignity. We see opportunity. We see food on tables. We see families having access to the everyday essentials they need.

Here’s why your contribution matters so much:

💚 All profits generated from the recycling we collect go DIRECTLY back into stocking our Trade Store.

♻️ Our Traders bring in their recyclable materials, earn points, and exchange those points for essential products for themselves and their families.

✨ It’s recycling with a purpose. It’s environmental impact meeting social impact. It’s creating a community where waste becomes worth, and worth becomes dignity.

Every bag collected helps keep this beautiful cycle moving.

To the NMB Business Chamber: THANK YOU for believing in what we do, for rallying your business community, and for turning good intentions into tangible impact.

You didn’t just bring us recycling. You brought opportunity. And that is something worth celebrating! 💚

WasteToWorth SocialImpact CircularEconomy StrongerTogether

27/10/2026

Christmas is around the corner! Here is a great way to get your classroom, coworkers or family in on the gift of giving back!!! All items collected go to our traders Christmas boxes for a year of trading tons and tons of recycled waste and supporting their families! Be part of the blessing! ♻️ 💚 ♻️

14/09/2026

💚We had a CRACKER of a month!!! Thank you to each and every one of you who brought waste to the Re-Trade Project this month, supported our informal waste pickers, brought donations or came along on a school tour.

Our volunteers have been busy and we diverted nearly 10 tons of waste from landfill this month, what an amazing milestone!!!

Who thinks we can break that record and go for 11 by the end of August?!?!

Make sure you tell your friends to drop their waste and !! 💚

10/09/2026

💚We absolutely LOVE teaching the next generation about creation care, pollution problems and sustainable solutions!! 💚

BOOK A SCHOOL TOUR TODAY!!!

01/09/2026

SPRING DAY! 🌞🌸🪻🌷🌹🌼🌞

Spring cleaning is coming up - bring any of your gently used items for our trade store and recycling to the depot! Let’s get ready for a new season! ♻️

19/08/2026

🔨Check out our new signage!!! Making it easier for our community to join in the recycling♻️ fun!!! Stop by📍say hi 👋 shake a hand 🫱🏿‍🫲🏻 never ever give up!!!

17/08/2026

23/07/2026

Hold My Hand is hosting a competition ♻️ is here!

Got a creative way to reduce, reuse or recycle? Show us and stand a chance to win up to R5 000!

-Make something
-Do something
-Say something

Send your photo, video or voice note to 0600 411 111 | Entries close 21 August 2026

16/07/2026

Want to make an impact?! Help us stock our shop this Mandela Day and help keep hope alive! 67 minutes, items, Randelas will help us keep dignity through exchange!

14/05/2026

Dear community, thank you so much for the amazing support you always show!

Please not the following changes to what we currently CANNOT accept at the Project.

Have questions? Let us know!

Address

22 Newcombe Avenue, Walmer Heights
Port Elizabeth
6070

Opening Hours

Monday

09:00 - 15:30

Telephone

+27413671100

Website

http://www.retradeproject.co.za/

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