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...
Companies around the world have been accused of adding to the worsening climate crisis by putting profits ahead of the environment. In a list of the top-polluting companies worldwide, Break Free From Plastic said tens of thousands of plastic pieces...
Plastic production over the last half-century has mushroomed, from 15 million tonnes in the 1960s to a gobsmacking 311 million tonnes in 2014. It is estimated that 13 000 pieces of plastic litter can be found in every square kilometre of the ocean....
Moves by retailers and shopping malls to ban plastic shopping bags are simplistic, rash responses to a complex problem. That is what Anton Hanekom, executive director at Plastic SA says. “What’s required is a rational solution to the genuine crisis...
Liberty Two Degrees (L2D), which owns some of South Africa’s top and biggest shopping malls, says it will implement a “no plastic shopping bag” policy at by 1 January 2020. Sandton City, Melrose Arch, and the Eastgate complex,...
A new technology may help to create jobs, clean the environment and contribute to the local construction industry by upcycling plastic into durable cement. South Africa creates and uses over one million tonnes of unrecycled plastic waste which can...
September is National Clean-up Month and South Africans nationwide are joining the waste free movement to clean up beaches and rivers. In partnership with Plastics SA for Clean-up and Recycle Week (10 to 15 September), Coca-Cola’s bottling partners...
Environmentalists have warned that the number of plastics in the oceans will outweigh fish by 2050 if nothing is done to end plastic pollution. They say the world consumes as much as a trillion plastic bags every year. Today is “International...
While healthy oceans are critical to human survival, providing most of the oxygen we breathe they are under threat by plastic pollution on a massive scale. According to the United Nations Environmental Programme around eight-million tonnes of...
