Last Hope Recycling LTD is a recycling co-operative established and registered in 2008 by five previously disadvantage Upington community members. The project is funded by NDA and Department of Social Development. The project is situated in the industrial site of Upington, a land and building that was financed by Department of Social Development. The project was established as an income generating co-operative aiming to be viable and sustainable enterprise reducing unemployment for the communities of Windsorton, Pabalelo, Dakota and Rosedale.

According to the review the project has been very sustainable and has not made significant profit compared to the successful profit made three years before registration as a co-operative. The last recorded increase in sales of 43% between was in 2009/ 2010 financial years. The Co-operative recycles and trades ferrous and no-ferrous metals. The scraps are bought from the local communities at a price per kilogram. The scrap is then weighed, sorted, compressed and sold locally to Upington recycling companies and nationally in Klerksdorp, North West Province and Cape Town, Western Cape Province, respectively.