zero waste Archives

Heather 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” food – a hotel’s self-service breakfast options, for instance, or…

Heather 7 August 2025 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

Putting the ‘oh’ into Zero Waste

Zero waste sounds daunting. What, for example, can you do with your olds sports kit when it wears thin? The shell after you’ve squeezed an orange? The cork from your bottle of wine? What do you with your pizza box,…

Heather 27 November 2024 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

Sustainable seafood: making things possible

There are, after all, not so many fish in the sea, says Michael Farquar, CEO of the Two Oceans Aquarium. We have hopelessly mismanaged the ocean and its resources. But to some extent, we can put back the clock, as…

nicktf 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…

nicktf 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…

nicktf 6 March 2023 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

The surprising power you and I have to solve the climate crisis

We came across this really interesting TED talk from sharing economy entrepreneur, Tessa Clarke, the brains behind the Olio app which facilitates free sharing of household “stuff”. Payoff line: It’s time to share more, care more, and waste less. We…