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9 April 2026 Featured Posts, General

Buildings designed to be taken apart

Ten years ago, circular economy principles and regenerative thinking were not mainstream. Conversations around embodied carbon, material transparency and lifecycle thinking were niche in many boardrooms. Today, they are common,...

3 November 2025 General, Uncategorized

STRATEGY IN ACTION:

FIREWORKS: HOW THEY SQUARE UP TO V&A’s SUSTAINABILITY COMMITMENTS In this case study we look at the V&A Waterfront Company’s commitment to its traditional fireworks display, as part of New...

3 April 2024 Featured Posts, General, Ocean Cluster

THE FASHION CONUNDRUM

Jackie May, editor of Twyg, wrestles with the complex issues surrounding our love for fashion, the price the planet pays, and the human consequences of where we are at now....

27 March 2024 Featured Posts, General, Ocean Cluster

Keeping waste out of landfill

A landfill crisis is looming in Cape Town, as it is in every urban centre. The municipality has drawn a line in the sand in a number of ways ,...

10 May 2023 Featured Posts, General

CSI was R11bn last year. But is business staying usefully connected to social need?

The Rotary Club of South Africa recently invited V&A Waterfront’s head of social impact, Henry Mathys, to join a panel of distinguished speakers that also included Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and...

1 March 2023 Featured Posts, General

One Blue Heart: a zero-waste fundraiser for turtle conservation

One Blue Heart was a first-of-its-kind, blue carpet, zero-waste event held in mid-February in support of the Turtle Conservation Centre at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation. Responsible Traveller digimag did...

23 February 2023 General, Ocean Cluster

We have our winners!

The production of plastic is a significant environmental burden. More than 99% of plastics are produced from oil, natural gas and coal. Around 4% of all greenhouse gases produced can...

15 February 2023 Featured Posts, General, SMME Cluster

Cigarette butts: a challenge

Here’s a challenge for placemaking: cigarette butts. Smoking is legal, and mostly smokers are sent outside to where their fumes won’t bother others. But that means cigarette butts are often...

16 January 2023 Featured Posts, General

‘Waste not, want not’ – or not?

Back in the days of our post-war grandmothers, clever frugality was a virtue. Wastefulness – of time, energy or goods – was a sign of poor character. My, how things...

10 January 2023 Featured Posts, General

1 000 things to do with an old shampoo bottle

There’s inspiring creativity & power in the recycling, upcycling and circular design worlds. Here are some of the ideas and people that get us excited. Make, transport, buy, use, discard....

Buildings designed to be taken apart

STRATEGY IN ACTION:

THE FASHION CONUNDRUM

Keeping waste out of landfill

CSI was R11bn last year. But is business staying usefully connected to social need?

One Blue Heart: a zero-waste fundraiser for turtle conservation

We have our winners!

Cigarette butts: a challenge

‘Waste not, want not’ – or not?

1 000 things to do with an old shampoo bottle￼

1 000 things to do with an old shampoo bottle