The 5th edition of the Technical Manual for Pipe Manufacturing and Pipeline Design has just been released. The publication, which is compiled and published by the Southern African Plastic Pipe Manufacturers Association (SAPPMA), is a valuable tool...
The Volvo Ocean Race is returning to Cape Town this summer and the organisers have taken the decision to use the platform to positively participate in the ocean health and plastic pollution conversation. In partnership with the United Nations...
The South African plastics and packaging industry has raised R45 000 for a much needed seabird hospital at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) in Cape Town. The funds were raised during the Propak Cape...
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has been working overtime to clean up bags of plastic pellets thrown into the sea as a result of the mega storm that lashed parts of the KwaZulu-Natal province earlier this month. The bags of plastic pellets...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) recently passed a motion to reduce plastic shopping bag waste in the Western Cape. The motion was passed at the Western Cape DA’s Provincial Congress recently announced to the public via a statement by James Vos,...
Microplastics are a global environmental problem that travels through the food chain and ends up on our plates. Around a third of these tiny particles are caused by worn tyres when the debris is washed into sewers by rainwater. Because sewage...
The 2017 African Marine Waste Conference took place in Port Elizabeth recently, and was attended by about 200 delegates from nine African states and a further ten countries from other continents. Managed by the Sustainable Seas Trust (SST) under...
Mangrove swamps normally team with life, as small scuttling things make their homes in underground holes and in among thick plant roots. However, when marine scientist Dr Brent Newman visited Durban harbour recently, he was surprised to find not a...
