The World Cup - A Rubber Stamp Recycling Opportunity?

Rubber stamp products are not something that jumpwith a rubber stamp product to get the VAT
to your mind when you think about the World Cuprefunded and so on and so on.
but to handle the huge number of people who willThe rubber stamp business in South Africa expects
come to South Africa many documents of all kindsto see a more than 50% growth in sales during the
are needed and most of them need to be stampedWorld Cup. This extra demand will generate jobs and
with a stamp either with a text or a stamp dater.income for many people not just in South Africa but
When tourists pass through the passport control theiralso in countries as far away as Austria, which
passports will be stamped and since there will be ahistorically is the industrial centre for production of
huge increase of soccer fans coming to South Africathe stamp bodies.
for the World Cup the passport control needs moreYou may ask what will happen with all these extra
staff - and more stamps. But it is not just passportstamp products once the World Cup is over? Most
rubber stamps that will be needed. The demand forlikely they will be thrown away since the South
stamp products will go up all over South Africa inAfrican recycling industry is not well established yet
almost every kind of business.so most of these additional stamp products will end
When you want to rent a car the rental documentsup in one of the huge garbage dumps all over South
will be stamped using a rubber stamp. InsuranceAfrica.
documents need to show dates and will be stampedJust think....what an opportunity for some enterprising
with a stamp dater. When you check out of hotelsperson to start up a stamp recycling centre in South
they will use rubber stamp products to stamp yourAfrica. It could be the beginning of a whole new
receipts when you pay. When you buy products yourecycling industry.
want to take home with you they will be stamped