The ROSE Foundation has operated an initiative called the Forecourt Project since 2000. Its primary focus is the collection of empty lubricating oil plastic bottles and cans, from service stations across all the fuel brands to ensure the responsible recycling of these associated waste materials.
The collection is done by a range of individual collectors who own and run small businesses. The new model has enabled ROSE to increase the collector base by having more collectors spread throughout the country instead of just having collections happening only in the three major centres of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg.
The ROSE Foundation plays a compliance oversight role that ensures that the collectors go about collection, transportation, storage, and recycling in an environmentally responsible manner. ROSE supports accredited collectors by providing free collection bags, and waste manifest booklets. We also audit these collectors to ensure that they use road worthy vehicles and that the waste ends up in a plastic recycling factory instead of a landfill site.
