William Graham of GrahamTek,an inventor based in the Strand, Cape Town has been working on a machine that converts plastic to oil. It’s a clean process using heat rather than incineration, with low emissions and produces a multi-fuel that can be used to power generators and machinery plus a by-product that can be turned into…
Imagine a Cape Town where households practice composting of organic waste either at home or via community composting centers and food gardens? It could become a reality depending on the success of the pilot project currently being conducted by the City of Cape Town. Of the approximately 1.6 million tons of waste sent to Cape Town’s landfills…
It is estimated that 6.4 tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year. The 5 Gyres (garbage patches floating in the Oceans) contain 6 times more plastic than plankton. The Great Pacific Gyre is the size of Texas. All this plastic waste has a huge impact on wildlife. It looks like food and birds starve…
We think it’s best to avoid using plastic as much as possible. We can rather choose reusable items and compostable packaging. That said, it is a good idea to use some the waste that has been, and is unfortunately still being produced. Building homes from plastic bottles is an idea that has been used in…
Fantastic news for the South African green economy and the environment is that the South African government has recently approved a $5.4 billion investment in renewable energy projects, which are predicted to be capable of producing 1,400MW of solar and wind generated energy and should be up and running by 2016. Get the full story…
You may remember we posted an article around 6 months ago, Food Waste: Beating Bourgeois Etiquette, which raised fundamental questions about our food culture, and the values which make wasting food more socially acceptable than thrifty consumption. The Institute of Waste Management of South Africa ( IWMSA) estimates that between 12 to 14 million people…
Fact 1: South Africa is the only country in the world which has allowed the main staple of its diet, maize, to be genetically modified (GM). Fact 2: Around 77% of maize production in South Africa is GM. Fact 3: Elsewhere in the world GM maize is grown primarily to feed livestock globally. Fact 4:…
This brilliant spoof campaign was created by Dutch Friends of the Earth in an attempt to hold Royal Dutch Shell accountable for their continued reckless pollutionof the Niger Delta. The Live with it! iPhone app allows users to find alternative water sources if their own water supply is contaminated as well as to earn points…
