Société des Brasseries du Gabon (SOBRAGA) wants to limit the waste of resources in Gabon. The company plans, with the collaboration of Name Recycling, to go door-to-door in order to collect brewing waste in the country for reuse.
The Société des brasseries du Gabon (SOBRAGA) wants to recycle more brewing waste in Gabon. To achieve this objective, the company, with the collaboration of Name Recycling, a Belgian-Cameroonian company responsible for the development of collection, treatment and recycling of plastic waste solutions, to go door-to-door in order to collect brewing waste.
The waste collected at points of sale and in homes will then be recycled by SOBRAGA and Name Recycling. Through this initiative, SOBRAGA wants to show the importance of the circular economy. It is an economy that proposes to rethink consumption and production patterns in order to limit the waste of resources.
SOBRAGA is currently considering concrete mechanisms that would allow the establishment of a circular economy in the country. To stimulate this dynamic of sustainable growth in the waste sector in Gabon, fundamental work must be done upstream. “It will be necessary to make a diagnosis of the existing situation, to identify actors, to know the organization of the brewing sector and its functioning, to have the appropriate statistics and to propose strategies of revalorization of waste”, Rostand Ndong Allogo, the Head of cabinet of the High Commission for the Environment and the Living Environment (HCECV) in Gabon.
Just before this new project, in April 2019, SOBRAGA and the company Name Recycling set up a project to combat plastic waste in Gabon.
Thanks to this project, Name Recycling has collected several tonnes of plastic waste in the country. The collected waste came partly from the production bottlenecks of the SOBRAGA factories, but also from the Recycling & Collection mini-company. This is a company that SOBRAGA has supported since 2015.
Name Recycling’s approach consisted of carefully washing the collected bottles to remove all traces of liquid, sand, dust or dirt. After washing, the plastic bottles were crushed and made into flakes. The flakes, once washed, then passed through an extruder to produce pure granules. As part of this project to combat plastic waste, waste collection bins have also been installed in the country
