"We believe conservation succeeds when people and nature thrive together. By giving plastic value, we turn a force harming ecosystems into a livelihood that helps protect them."
Ele-Collection is a plastic recovery company based in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. We remove plastic waste from natural environments to protect wildlife, restore ecosystems, and support local communities. Through Plazrok technology, the first process of its kind in Africa, collected plastic is transformed into durable construction aggregate, replacing stone and sand in concrete, and locking plastic away for good.
By draining plastic from national parks and dump sites, we eliminate the source of sickness and human-wildlife conflict, ensuring a safer ecosystem for Africa’s iconic species.
We turn waste into a livelihood for the people of Victoria Falls. Through our collection model, we pay local residents - primarily women from vulnerable backgrounds - for the plastic they gather.
We go beyond traditional recycling. A first of it’s kind in Africa, our factory converts all seven resin types of plastic into Plazrok - a durable building aggregate. Through our process, dirty, unsorted plastic from wild areas is given a second life and locked away for good.
Our Corporate Social Responsibility partnerships allow organisations to drive plastic collection in wild areas to meet their ESG goals. Discover more about our transparent, data-driven system that is uplifting communities and protecting ecologically sensitive areas.
Victoria Falls, one of the world’s most breathtaking natural wonders, faces an environmental challenge that threatens its beauty and biodiversity—plastic waste. This plastic pollution not only mars the landscape but also endangers wildlife and disrupts local ecosystems. Recognizing the urgency of the situation, Ele Collection has set out on a mission to remove plastic waste […]
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230 tonnes – the equivalent weight of 33 (large) elephants. This is the amount of plastic waste to enter Victoria Falls Town and Livingstone (the two towns bordering the mighty Victoria Falls) every month. That’s 2,760 tonnes every year, the equivalent weight of almost 395 elephants! Who are Bonamy Private Travel and Ele-Collection? A […]
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Plastic ingestion by elephants in Victoria Falls has inspired a trio of locals to begin an innovative project to turn plastic waste into a flexible and sturdy new building material, while creating jobs for local communities. Ele-Collection was co-founded by locals Ben Norton, Simon Teede and Rainer Von Urff-Kaufeld, with the goal of removing all […]
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