Kukhula Cares
Kukhula is a company that combines entrepreneurship and youth with disabilities using recycling to make products and create self employment.
Buying from this page enables entrepreneurs who are unemployed youth to use recycling to start a business thereby enabling them to gain skills create their own income, contribute to the economy and reduce landfills.
Empowering Learners with Practical Skills
Kukhula is empowering learners with practical skills that open doors to creativity and opportunity.
Through hands-on training, students are learning how to craft delicious food cart meals and serve customers with confidence. Under expert guidance, these young cooks gain valuable experience in preparing and presenting street food, while ensuring top-notch service.
The Kukhula Cares workshop lets learners create products from recycled materials, fostering creativity, sustainability, and resourcefulness.
These initiatives equip young people with practical skills, ignite a passion for the culinary arts and sustainable innovation, and prepare them for future success.
Products Made From FELT
- rPET (recycled PET bottles)
- Reduces consumption of non-renewable resources by using recycled content.
- Reduces carbon emmission, water and energy (with a significantly smaller environmental impact than virgin fibres).
- International standards and best practice applied to all operations throughout production; guaranteeing quality as well as environmental and social responsibility and compliance.
- The entire process from the PET bottles to the finished felt product is 100% local, ensuring local economic growth in South Africa, supporting the local textile industry and thereby strengthening a circular recycling economy.
- Collectors gather PET bottles from various waste collection sites across the country.
- Workers transport the PET bottles to a processing plant.
- There, they clean the bottles and chop them into flakes.
- They melt the flakes into small pellets and then extrude the pellets to produce felt fiber.
- Manufacturers use these fibers to create non-woven felt and stitchbond fabric.
12 RECYCLED BOTTLES PER LINEAR METRE OF RPET FELT
