In 2010 Hayley McLellan (now the Environmental Campaigner at the Two Oceans Aquarium) launched the Rethink the Bag campaign with the goal of banning single-use plastic shopping bags in South Africa - and she's making significant progress. In 2011, the Aquarium made the decision to fully support this campaign which led to staff and volunteers being prohibited from bringing … [Read more...]
Let’s get microbeads banned now in SA – join the campaign
Some years ago we sent a journalist on one of the 5 Gyres Institute boats to share in the crucial research into the impact of plastic beads on our oceans. Our passion for the ocean demanded that we get involved with this plight of the most important source of protein on the planet - and of many of our connection to nature. If there is one issue which moves me deeply it is … [Read more...]
Plane Search Shows World’s Oceans Are Full of Trash
Before Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, sea trash was not a global headliner. But as hundreds of objects sighted off the Australian coast as possible aircraft debris turn out to be discarded fishing equipment, cargo container parts, or plastic shopping bags, a new narrative is emerging in the hunt for the missing plane: There's more garbage out there than you … [Read more...]
