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waterfrontcms 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 kitchens represents resources: all have taken energy, and water, and…

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 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…

waterfrontcms 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…

waterfrontcms 13 August 2021 Ocean Cluster

Why an ocean cluster?

The founding philosophy of the Waterfront was to connect the people of Cape Town with the sea. The Waterfront is keenly aware of its role and responsibility in sustaining this crucial intersection, leveraging it for the greater social and environmental…

EVERY MOUTHFUL COUNTS

Keeping waste out of landfill

The plastics crisis

Human-wildlife intersect

Why an ocean cluster?

Let’s build back better.