By Frances Ringwood Experts claim that disposable nappies take up to 500 years to biodegrade, making these one of the most intractable materials regularly deposited in landfill sites. Vanishing reusables In South Africa, some of our mothers and...
The Minister and Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs (DEA) led the department’s commemorations of International Nelson Mandela Day in honour of former statesman and the late President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, on Wednesday, 15 July this...
The youth of 1976 fought hard to take back their country from the crippling effects of apartheid and injustice. Now that freedom has been attained, we are faced with constant reality of our communities being riddled with litter and the environment...
Cape Town has recently embarked on an illegal dumping clamped down in an effort to curb the R350-million spent annually on cleaning up the City. “This money could have been better spent on a new sports facility or on social welfare programmes, but...
