Rendani Raliphada, Managing Director of Murero Recycling, standing in front of a Murero collection truck.
Rendani Raliphada, Managing Director.

Owner-run since 2018

Rendani Raliphada started Murero Fleet Management in May 2018 with one truck, buying recyclable material around Gauteng and delivering it into the reclaimer market.

Eight years later he still drives collections. That is not a marketing line about hands-on service, it is how a business this size works, and it is the reason a swap that has been promised generally happens.

The company grew the way these companies grow: a second truck, then cages so customers had somewhere to put material instead of bagging it, then a sorting site so the material could be graded properly, then buy-back centres so the flow was not dependent on any single customer.

2Collection trucks, hook-lift fitted
22Mesh cages in service
1Sorting and disposal site, KwaMhlanga
2Buy-back centres, Mamelodi

How the operation is put together

Three parts, and each one exists because the previous one had a limit.

  1. Collection

    Two trucks running Gauteng daily, swapping cages at customer sites. This is the part customers see and the part everything else depends on, because a cage that is not swapped on time is a customer who goes back to general waste.

  2. Sorting

    Material is separated by stream, either at the customer's premises or at our own site at KwaMhlanga. Sorting is what turns a collection into a recovery, and it is where the value in the load is either realised or lost.

  3. Buy-back

    Two centres in Mamelodi take material in from the surrounding area as well as from our own routes. They keep volume flowing when commercial collections are quiet, and they put money into the hands of people collecting locally.

A line of Murero mesh cages filled with sorted material at the Murero site.

The sorting site

Where the cages come in and the streams come apart.

A Murero hook-lift truck tipping a mesh cage.
The swap, at the site.

Where we are going

The plan is more trucks and more sites, moving out from Gauteng into Limpopo, North West, Mpumalanga and the Free State, with additional consolidation points so material does not have to travel far before it is sorted.

We are telling you this because capacity is the honest constraint in this business, and a supplier who pretends otherwise is a supplier whose cages arrive late. Right now we are a Gauteng operation and we would rather be a good one than a thin national one.

The registered entity

Murero Fleet Management (Pty) Ltd, registration 2018/280812/07, founded May 2018. Trading as Murero Recycling. Registered office at 148 Katherine Street, Sandton, 2196.

What we will put in writing

Ask for any of this before you appoint us. If a waste supplier hesitates on these, that tells you something.

On request

Company documentation

CIPC registration, tax status and B-BBEE certificate. Standard procurement pack, sent the same day you ask.

On request

Where your material went

The sorting site and the reclaimers that took each stream. Named, not described in general terms.

On request

Destruction handling

For confidential paper, how it is collected, kept separate and destroyed, so your own policy can reference it.

Come and meet the operation

Rendani does the site assessments himself. You will be dealing with the person who owns the outcome.