Ocean Cluster Archives

21 August 2025 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

Zero waste: how might we get there (or thereabouts)?

[Picture shows, left to right: Roberto de Carvalho, Petro Myburgh, Zukiswa Pikoli, Melanie Ludwig and Alison Evans on the podium at Maker’s Landing] This is human nature: we see “free”...

7 July 2025 Featured Posts, Food Cluster, Ocean Cluster

Sustainable seafood: looking square at the barriers (and finding solutions)

In South Africa’s waters, says Dr Judy Mann of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, more than 2 000 species of marine fish can be found. Around 320 of these (16%)...

17 April 2024 Ocean Cluster

LET US MESMERISE YOU

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein, from...

5 April 2024 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

EVERY MOUTHFUL COUNTS

The scale of what we waste is eye-watering. Globally, an estimated 1,3bn tonnes of food is wasted each year. Every bit of every plant and protein that comes into our...

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 ,...

19 October 2023 Ocean Cluster, SMME Cluster

There’s treasure in the trash

It’s going to take time before humankind course-corrects its relationship with plastic. So what can we do with our piles of plastic waste in the meantime? Here’s some inspiration on...

7 June 2023 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

Wastepreneur innovations launch

In February this year, SOLVE was thrilled to announce that against stiff competition, The Litterboom Project had won our inaugural Plastics Innovation and Circularity Challenge. We’ve long been fans of...

12 April 2023 Featured Posts, Food Cluster, Ocean Cluster, SMME Cluster

SEAFOOD: WHAT DOES ‘SUSTAINABLE’ MEAN ANYWAY?

For many of us, the 2021 Netflix documentary Seaspiracy was the beginning of the end of garlic prawns, fried hake and chips, sushi, pickled fish and any other favourite way...

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...