Walker Bay Recycling closes its doors – for good

Writer: De Waal Steyn.

Further price drops in the open market for recycled materials compelled Hannes Neyschens, owner of Walker Bay Recycling, to finally close the doors of the company last week.

Several readers contacted The Village NEWS and numerous posts appeared on social media after a notice was attached to the facility’s wall on 28 January, stating that it had closed indefinitely. This follows a similar notice in November last year.

According to Neyschens it does not make sense for a company to try and keep afloat when the business model simply does not work. “I cannot keep ploughing money into the business as it would be too risky to do so.

The original Walker Bay Recycling facility put Hermanus at the forefront of waste recycling efforts and played a large part in the Overstrand shining at the ‘Greenest Municipality’ awards for several years. Unfortunately these achievements came to a grinding halt when the facility was burnt down by rioters during the 2018 protests. The new owner of Walker Bay Recycling has struggled to keep afloat at his new premises, but additional financial factors have now forced him out of business.

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