Tag along with a team on Cape Town’s waterfront that helps protect its playful inhabitants from the perils of plastic. Trump administration says South African ambassador has to leave the US by ...

Plastic waste in Cape Town, usually destined for landfills and rivers, is being put to good use. The plastic from a school-based recycling programme is turned into concrete blocks. And in Khayelitsha, ...

Remove adsWhen Daily Maverick went out to photograph the pollution along rivers and beaches in some areas of Cape Town this week, we found enormous amounts of plastic items, nurdles and discarded ...

Every year, humanity produces a staggering 430 million tonnes of plastic, two-thirds of which ... Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. My research focused on the socio-economic ...

What isn’t normal is the powerful storm that recently hit the Cape Town area, leaving hundreds ... t see that amount of evidence of plastic pollution in the ocean. Turtles spend almost all ...

Two dozen other towns in Massachusetts — more than half of them on Cape ... plastic pollution. Concord’s vote had an “inspirational effect,” she said, in her Berkshires’ town of Dalton ...

testosteroni’s ability to break down plastic. Though the bacteria are promising tools for combating pollution, they are not quite ready to be thrown into wastewater treatment plants and ...

Heidi Taylor, the CEO of marine health NGO Tangaroa Blue Foundation in Cape York, wants the current senate inquiry into Australia's rising level of plastic pollution to consider the impact on ...