Mbongeni Buthelezi is using his art form to help raise awareness around the importance of recycling and saving the environment. He combines his artistic passion with a love for recycling and created a completely new art form in which he melts...
Preserving South Africa’s marine heritage and protecting its shores from pollution has been a priority for the global plastics industry, and in South Africa, DPI Plastics is seeing this through. The company has been a part of the Fishing Line...
‘Next generation’ technologies present new, advanced ways to tackle waste and pollution challenges, experts say. Speaking ahead of the upcoming Pollution and Waste Technology Africa conference, experts say that 4th Industrial Revolution...
The issue of marine litter is not receiving enough attention in Africa, Juliette Biao, director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep), told delegates at the World Economic Forum which was recently held in Durban. Annually, eight...
Glass bottles and paper bags now pollute Cape beaches more than PET bottles according to the results of this year’s International Coastal Clean-Up (ICC). This annual event, which took place in September this year, was the 20th of its kind and was...
A three phase plan has been implemented by Johannesburg Water, an entity of the City of Johannesburg, to assist with the clean-up of the Hartbeespoort Dam after its water was contaminated by a sewage leak. The recent spill was caused by the leakage...
A new report compiled by non-profits Pure Earth and Green Cross Switzerland on 25 October this year highlights the top ten polluting industries in developing countries that put 32 million people at risk. Titled, The World’s Worst Pollution Problems...
The Wildlands Green Filter Plant is the result of collaborative efforts to address the serious pollution problems of the Plankenbrug River in Stellenbosch. The Plankenbrug River receives greywater, polluted stormwater and effluent overflow from...
A new report claims if the rate of plastic pollution in oceans continues to increase, plastic garbage could outweigh fish by 2050. The report from the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimates that there are 165 million tons...
