The plastic bag levy on shopping bags at South African retailers will increase from 12 cents to 25 cents at the beginning of April, finance minister Tito Mboweni revealed in his Budget speech. While progress has been made to reduce plastic...
The city of Cape Town has launched an initiative to provide more compost bins for Cape suburbs. Seven different areas under the Subcouncil 1 will benefit from the new initiative and will assist residents in growing their own food and making better...
Twice as much food as previously estimated, or a third of all food available for human consumption, is wasted. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research have published a study that suggests consumers are wasting twice as much food as...
A dumping site in Salt River, Cape Town is unrecognizable these days after it has been turned into a community food garden. The founder of UK NGO, Progress London, says the life-changing project was made a reality because of funding from...
