Digitally-enabled microjobbing platform Money for Jam (M4JAM) has collaborated with Green Office, an environmentally-conscious document management solutions business, to roll out a pilot recycling project.
According to Andre Hugo, M4JAM CEO, the digitally-enabled platform hosted on WeChat, allows companies to allocate microjobs to thousands of geographically dispersed jobbers across SA and pay them cash via the platform at the till points of selected retail outlets.
The campaign offers to pay jobbers to collect undamaged used toner cartridges for Green Office to recycle.
Hugo notes no specific number is required before taking these cartridges in. "Jobbers are encouraged to collect as many as possible in the next two weeks and bring them to the nominated depots," he says.
Green Office will designate specific collection dates at its Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban recycling depots over a three-week period. The campaign may be extended indefinitely to over 1 000 locations around the country if the pilot proves to be successful.
He notes jobbers will be paid R5 for each qualifying cartridge dropped off at the designated locations on the specified days. "Green Office employees will be stationed at the depots to collect the cartridges and the jobbers will be paid through the usual M4JAM wallet mechanism."
Hugo believes this recycling initiative can be used by schools and welfare organisations as ongoing fundraising initiatives - and by normal people who want to make some extra money.
He claims the pilot is a first in SA to take the manual task of recycling into the digital crowdsourcing arena; and paves the way for similar initiatives in any industry where recycling is a priority.
"It could also significantly increase the sustained earnings potential of our jobbers," he concludes.
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