Environmental activist and founder of Durbanites Solving Plastic Pollution, an advocacy campaign seeking sustainable solutions to pollution in our waterways.
Durban, South Africa
Joined April 2017
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All industry efforts to mitigate plastic bottle pollution have failed. Time for innovation: 20-cent deposit on every plastic bottle sold. Plastic producer supply chains must be expanded to collect used bottles. #depositreturnsystem #reverselogistics #boomerangeffect #epr
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Plastic pollution can't be ignored. There will be more plastic than fish by weight in the ocean by 2050. MORE PLASTIC THAN FISH! 🐠🥤🥤🥤#BreakFreeFromPlastic #WorldOceansWeek
plasticpollutioncoalition.or… – at Durban, South Africa
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Great read on today’s “recycling day”
@circulareconomy of plastic is toxic hoax created by @McKinsey & promoted by industry-sponsored EMF. NPE Economic premise blatantly false & toxicity of recycled plastic ☠️ completely ignored
EMF = Toxics Deniers
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World Recycling Day | SA urged to recycle youtu.be/EYmCZlbwMA8
@DanoneSa and #etv peddling the myth that household recycling will on its own solve the global crisis of plastic pollution.
@GarethEdwardsSA says 1 plastic brick at a time can pave the way for the environment 🥴
WATCH | South African entrepreneur develops robot that can collect 21 000 plastic bottles a day news24.com/news24/tech-and-t… – at Durban, South Africa
Sad that there was no appetite in SA port authorities for this and other technologies such as the #trashwheel. Many proposals to help have been submitted.
Shout out to @CityLodgeHotels for fighting the scourge of single use water bottles in the hospitality sector with fantastic hydration stations! #refillrevolution #byobottle
Fans basic human right to hydrate trampled last night at the #SA20 DSG v JSK match played in typical hot and humid conditions at Kingsmead Stadium, #Durban! Only option: purchase single use plastic bottled water inside. Unacceptable #plasticpollution #byobottle #refillrevolution
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In nature there is no waste, there is no throwaway solution, everything is sustenance and support for something else. We have taken this astonishing natural economy and done our best to turn it into a garbage dump. End #SingleUsePlastics now. Adopt a #circularEconomy
Plastic starts polluting the moment it is created. Scientists have found microplastics in the air we breathe, food we eat and recently in human blood bit.ly/3NP2cYb
#BreakFreeFromPlastic 🚨 Ask world leaders to support a global plastics treaty❗act.gp/3LG5KKs
Hundreds of thousands of @Dove cotton bud plastic stems arrive on our beaches and get washed out to sea each year in SA. The reason? They get flushed down the loo and evade waste water treatment plant filters. Why do our main retailers still stock this nasty product? #banthebud – at Durban, South Africa
Merry Christmas and many thanks to the @eThekwiniM beach cleaning teams. I don't understand though why the city persists with these useless "bins".
Steve Cohen retweeted
There may actually be more #microplastic pollution in the soil than in the ocean.
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Our #GlobalCommitment 2021 Progress Report, published today with @UNEP, shows the impact that voluntary initiatives can have.
But we need a UN Treaty on plastic pollution to ensure all businesses & governments play their part.
Explore the report: bit.ly/3ouKQEl
Chemicals in Plastics Are a Global Health Threat, Says New Report gizmodo.com/chemicals-in-pla…
SA should follow global trends and phase out polystyrene foam packaging.
Many countries are targeting straws, bags and expanded polystyrene items as they weigh more comprehensive legislation for packaging. @environmentza #cleanseas
wastedive.com/news/dc-plasti… via @WasteDive
Good news.
We don't understand the dichotomy in the WOOLWORTHS business model though - increasing the amount of new unrecyclable plastic packaging products on its shelves month on month whilst committing to ensuring all their packaging is widely... iol.co.za/business-report/co…
The Durban flood this week demonstrated that what we are seeing is not just a problem of littering and over-consumption of single-use plastic, but of major systemic failure of the municipal solid waste... facebook.com/Durbanitesagain…
Tons of post consumer plastic and other waste being discharged out to sea, which will cause untold harm to life in the ocean. Thanks Hanno from Wildlands for documenting the carnage. facebook.com/Durbanitesagain…