About us

PRINCIPLES AND VALUES

Our business philosophy clearly articulates that the principles we hold and run our business by are the key to the realisation of the highest good for all our stakeholders and eventual profits for our investors and us from our projects. Therefore, we need to consciously choose and precisely articulate these principles or values, which we have done. The principles and values we at Waste2Energy strive to live and work by at all times, in all places, through all circumstances, without exception are summarised below:

• Community – Doing everything we can to foster a sense of community and togetherness amongst our own people and all our stakeholders;
• Sustainability – Thinking and acting in ways that are authentically sustainable for all our stakeholders, including society and the natural environment;
• Integrity – Being honest, open and transparent in our motives for doing anything and in all our communication internally and with anyone not working for Waste2Energy.

We believe that the only way to ensure we adhere to the highest standards of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSI) is to abide by these values, our own internal CSI that ensures that the projects we undertake and their eventual results will be good for all our stakeholders. 

FOUNDER 

Ayanda Mtelana

Ayanda Mtalana founded Waste2Energy Technologies (Pty) Ltd after more than a decade of pioneering environmentally sustainable waste solutions. His work with municipalities in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, particularly Buffalo City, laid the foundation for his vision of transforming organic waste into sustainable biogas through anaerobic digestion, an alternative to the polluting and widely used method of incineration.

Ayanda has assembled a team of experts and technology partners from across the globe, including Israel, Germany, Italy, Pakistan, and South Africa, to drive this vision forward. His early success includes implementing innovative recycling programs for Buffalo City Municipality. Since then, the Waste2Energy team has continued to research and develop cutting-edge technologies to source, transport, and process waste through anaerobic digestion.

Their projects focus on various waste streams, including:

• The organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW);
• Agricultural byproducts, such as poultry litter and sugarcane bagasse;
• Residual materials from South Africa’s paper and pulping industries;
• Utilizing desert wastelands to create inland saline lakes for kelp farming.

Through these efforts, Ayanda and his team are redefining waste management and contributing to a more sustainable future.