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waterfrontcms 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. A few Sundays ago, I visited a large secondhand clothing…

waterfrontcms 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 , including banning organic waste from landfill by 2027. It’s not…

waterfrontcms 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 a great overview of the event – and its reason…

waterfrontcms 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 be attributed to plastic production (that is equivalent to twice…

waterfrontcms 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 ground out under the heel and left on the pavement.…

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

Let’s build back better.