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Business owner recognised for her recycling impact

April 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

Loretta Waterboer, the winner of the PETCO Awards Top Woman in Recycling, 2021 is a wonderful and passionate role model for female leadership in our industry, running her own business, LW Recycling and Trade, and partnering with the Mosselbank River Conservation Trust (MRCT) for a bigger impact in her community. When MRCT environmental officer Danielle Cronje started working … [Read more...]

World Environment Day calls for an end to nature’s destruction

June 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

One million plant and animal species risk extinction, largely due to human activities. These are issues the world cannot lose sight of even as we tackle the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis. The theme for World Environment Day, 5 June 2020, is biodiversity — a call to action to combat the accelerating species loss and degradation of the natural … [Read more...]

Lockdown gives dive operators time to rethink sustainability

May 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

The world is at a standstill to flatten the Covid-19 curve, a pause that has been especially devastating to the travel industry. But for some marine tourism operators in Indonesia and Malaysia, the lockdown has inspired new innovations. The picturesque Ceningan Divers Resort in Bali, Indonesia—though closed for guests since March 19—has set up an online education portal … [Read more...]

Partners to boost innovative recycling villages

June 14, 2019 2 Comments

World Environment Day saw the building of three new recycling villages and the upgrade of two more in KwaZulu-Natal. WILDLANDS recycling villages, which are at the forefront of recycling and the recycling circular economy in South Africa, are part of a well-established WILDTRUST programme. In celebration of World Environment Day, a day that encourages citizen-action to … [Read more...]

Clean air a basic human right, not a luxury

June 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

This World Environment Day we face the reality that more than 9 out of 10 people globally are breathing unsafe air. “Clean air isn’t a luxury; it’s a basic human right. It’s not acceptable that so many people around the world are being forced to breathe polluted, toxic air. More and more people are having to deal with the terrible health impacts and they’ve had enough – … [Read more...]

Africa’s efforts towards eradicating plastics

August 6, 2018 Leave a Comment

The ongoing global movement for eliminating plastics is gaining momentum in Africa. Several countries are now taking steps to eliminate the production and distribution of single-use plastics, some adopting a total ban on the production and use of plastic bags. Cameroon, Egypt, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania have taken the … [Read more...]

Bring Your Own Bag campaign aims to keep the seas trash free

June 4, 2018 Leave a Comment

Every year South Africans use approximately 8 billion plastic bags, and less than 1% are recycled. Most end up in landfills or the ocean. With the support of A Rocha “Christians in Conservation,” South African Churches have launched a campaign to reduce the use of plastic shopping bags. At the launch, Rethink The Bag campaign founder Hayley MacLellan shared stories of the … [Read more...]

Exploring alternative materials to reduce plastic pollution

June 1, 2018 Leave a Comment

In an effort to equip the world with the tools and knowledge to reduce plastic litter from ending up in our ocean, rivers, and lakes, UN Environment today published a report assessing the potential of replacing conventional plastics with alternative materials in certain applications. The ocean has increasingly become a repository for discarded plastics and microplastics, … [Read more...]

Joburg Mayor joins Miss Earth SA for World Environment Day street clean-up

June 6, 2017 Leave a Comment

One hundred street and park clean-ups formed part of the World Environment Day celebrations for the Miss Earth South Africa Leadership programme in partnership with the City of Joburg and Pikitup. From the 1st – 5th June, 100 Miss Earth SA regional finalists have been hard at work connecting with their communities across the country. Under the banner of the international … [Read more...]

Wearing away the stone of climate change

June 6, 2014 Leave a Comment

We sometimes have very strange ways of imagining small island states and global warming, writes Dr Terry Brown, former Bishop of Malaita, Anglican Church of Melanesia (1996 to 2008) for World Environment Day. For example, we may think of the small island as a kind of oil rig, locked forever at a certain height from the bottom of the sea, being overwhelmed by the rising sea … [Read more...]

World Environment Day

June 5, 2014 Leave a Comment

World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on June 05, 2014 and is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action. June 5 was the day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in 1972. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was from 5 until 16 June 1972. It was established by the United … [Read more...]

Landfill gas increases by 72% leading to climate change

June 1, 2014 2 Comments

The growing environmental impact landfill sites have in South Africa needs to be addressed and every citizen can help reduce their waste footprint. World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nation’s (UN) vehicle to promote the importance of looking after the environment. This annually takes place on 05 June. The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) … [Read more...]

Waste not want not this Youth Day

June 14, 2013 Leave a Comment

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The PET Recycling Company (Pty) Ltd (PETCO) and the Paper Recycling Association of South Africa (PRASA) conducted training with the Wastewant Youth Recycling Co-Operative Limited today, in honour of Youth Day being celebrated across the country on 16 June 2013. The training forms a part of PETCO’s ongoing drive to empower communities and youth in the waste management and … [Read more...]

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