SMME Cluster Archives

waterfrontcms 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 how waste can be directed towards social good, from The…

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

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.…

waterfrontcms 27 August 2021 SMME Cluster

SMME community platform

To support SMMEs across the precinct, the Waterfront has built a virtual Community platform. The intention is to facilitate stronger connections between tenants, peer-to-peer learning, and access to current news and events at the Waterfront. The community is in its…

waterfrontcms 27 August 2021 Featured Posts, SMME Cluster

Enabling tomorrow

The V&A Waterfront has a long commitment to enterprise development. It showed up in the early days, in initiatives such as the Red and Blue sheds; and has matured into the establishment of initiatives such as: The Watershed, highly curated…

There’s treasure in the trash

SEAFOOD: WHAT DOES ‘SUSTAINABLE’ MEAN ANYWAY?

Cigarette butts: a challenge

A new community platform

SMME community platform

Enabling tomorrow

Let’s build back better.