The same circular journey, shown three ways: in five stages, in real photographs, and in the numbers it has already produced.
Recover → Sort → Transform → Create → Impact.
For corporate partners recovering banners or packaging at scale, Ibala works in strategic alliance with Polyco, South Africa's PVC and plastics producer responsibility organisation. The same facility runs one simple chain of custody: collection and offtake, sanitisation and security, then cooperative upcycling — closing with a diversion summary confirming what left your business and what it became. Full EPR and compliance documentation is available on request.
Cutting Station
Sewing Line
Material QC
Prototyping
Packaging
Five real stops, told in pictures — from a retired billboard to a schoolbag on a learner's back.
Retired PVC banners are collected directly from media owners, agencies and brand teams — intercepted before they reach a landfill or an open burn pile.
Inside a working ±1,300 m² facility in Johannesburg, material is sanitised, graded and cut, then paired with reinforcing fabric for strength.
Township-based cooperatives fabricate every product — earning fair wages and building real, transferable manufacturing skills.
Weatherproof and built for years of daily use — a schoolbag, tech folio or branded corporate gift, each carrying a campaign's second life.
"The material that once promoted our campaign is now helping a learner get to school."
Every campaign ends the same way — heavy-duty PVC banner, built to survive storms and UV, discarded after a few weeks on display.
Inside Ibala's ±1,300 m² Johannesburg facility, that same material is sorted, cut and paired with reinforcing fabric — the sister company to Page82 Consultants, an established branding and media business.
Women-led township cooperatives cut and stitch it into a durable schoolbag — earning fair wages and building transferable manufacturing skills.
"The material that once promoted our campaign is now helping a learner get to school."