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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 we had of eating seafood. The savage story the documentary…

nicktf 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…

nicktf 19 December 2022 Ocean Cluster

Plastics innovation & circularity challenge

Over 300 million tons of plastic is produced annually, half of which goes into single-use items such as shopping bags, cups and straws. More than 8 million tons of this ends up in our oceans. There are multiple domestic and…

nicktf 25 November 2021 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

How might we turn the tide on plastics?

Reduce, reuse, recycle – these are the three “R”s of building a better world. But the global figure for plastics recycling is 1% (16% in South Africa, on generous calculations) so the focus is firmly on the first two. Plastic…

nicktf 13 August 2021 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

The plastics crisis

At the second Ocean Cluster session, held in July 2021, the focus was on one of the themes that had emerged in the first session: the impact of plastics on the marine environment. Background The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods was…

nicktf 13 August 2021 Ocean Cluster

Human-wildlife intersect

At the first Ocean Cluster session in June 2021, the focus was on the intersect between human activity and marine wildlife. In 2021, the theme for World Oceans Day – The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods – explored how human activity…